Example sentences of "[adj] stand [prep] one " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm — I 'm sorry , ’ Chesarynth said automatically , trying to look as though it were normal to stand on one leg with her skirt round her knees . |
| 2 | The church is built close to the edge of the bluff , which falls an overgrown eighty or ninety feet down into the wide bed of the gave or river ; and the view up or downstream is dignified further by the curtain wall of the medieval Tour Monréal , that stands at one corner of the small square in front of the church . |
| 3 | The Chinese believe that to stand on one leg while kicking with the other unbalances the practitioner and places him at a disadvantage . |
| 4 | Prussia in the 1820s and 1830s stood with one foot in the feudal , agricultural past and the other foot in the new age of industry . |
| 5 | The other three stood to one side , in a line , at attention . |
| 6 | She said they did everything in teams , for the honour , and what was the good of that , when she could leave them all standing with one arm tied behind her back ? |
| 7 | When I returned to the palace with my boxes , I was able to stand on one box on one side of the wall and step on to the other box on the other side . |
| 8 | At the close at four thirty the Footsie one hundred stood at one nine nine O point three and Wall Street was down fifty-two point three points at two four six O point five . |