Example sentences of "[pron] stand [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everyone stands at one end of the pool , and when it is time to start I swim to the end of the pool and come back . |
| 2 | Everyone stands at one end of the room with their eggs in front of them on the floor . |
| 3 | Without taking hold of me , she forced me to stand in one spot of my own will , while she whipped me on all sides . |
| 4 | And on they sped so swiftly that she might almost have cried out with Ostanes , less in trepidation than delight , ‘ Save me , O God , for I stand between two exalted brilliances … |
| 5 | exactly where I stand on this ! |
| 6 | In the first six lines he asks when that love which is incarnated in Jesus will " com to comforth me " " bryng me owt of care " " gyf me " , and sets these verbs of power potentially activated on his behalf with his own sense of motionless deprivation : " I stand in still mowrnyng " . |
| 7 | I stand in all the wrong places … ’ |
| 8 | where I stand in another life , |
| 9 | I stand by that decision . ’ |
| 10 | I stand by that . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I said in court that I might see 200 such challenges if I attended four games in a week — and I stand by that . |
| 12 | It has been announced , it is Government policy , and I stand by that policy . |
| 13 | The laws are the same on a bullet train or on a jet airplane as they are for someone standing in one place . |
| 14 | I stood about fifty metres away from the still steaming crater . |
| 15 | I pulled the door shut and almost ran to the front door and into Langdon Crescent garden , where I stood for five minutes breathing in the fresh air . |
| 16 | They made the driver help them , but I stood to one side stamping my feet to keep warm and watching the horizon with keen interest . |
| 17 | For it is true , when I stood on that high ledge this morning and viewed the land before me , I distinctly felt that rare , yet unmistakable feeling — the feeling that one is in the presence of greatness . |
| 18 | ‘ What would you give me if I stood on that boulder on one leg ? ’ asked Christopher , eyeing a small rock on the extreme edge of the cliff . |
| 19 | He held me while I stood on one leg to massage the injured toe . |
| 20 | As I stood on one foot to remove them , the little cabin shifted on its suspension but there was no embarrassment , not even in the disparity between the utility of our underwear and the transcendence of our desire . |
| 21 | My mind cast back to the winter of last November when I stood on this same platform awaiting the arrival of a new intake . |
| 22 | As my companion remarked , the oldies are goldies and you ca n't get much ( g ) older than ‘ I stood on this stage 30 years ago and I was so successful they 've asked me back tonight . ’ |
| 23 | I stood at that window and watched you for at least two minutes ! |
| 24 | I could with ease place my arm on the roof as I stood by one of them in the road . |
| 25 | Did Fosdyke die , I wondered as I stood by that hastily dug grave , to avenge the humiliation of Fornovo ? |
| 26 | That was the time when I stood in all that fluid with my boots on , a priceless carpet under my feet , hounds never seen on the earth before lying still and obedient before me , staring out of that maternal portico with its flanking columns , down the long avenue of limes that lead to birth , life and Arcadia . |
| 27 | I stood in that upper gallery where I first saw Dana and he cast that look upon me which was to make me his slave . |
| 28 | Early one morning , in the merry month of May , I stood in this dining room watching a group of climbers from all over the world being introduced to The Great Tradition . |
| 29 | I stood amongst twenty thousand |
| 30 | I stood amongst twenty thousand people |