Example sentences of "[pron] stood [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Inside , it was lit by a single bulb wrapped round with a brown-paper shade and furnished with three wooden chairs and a counter on which stood two telephones and a litter of timetables and pads . |
| 2 | Coleridge said in later life that the farmhouse to which he now retreated was called Brimstone ( no doubt a Coleridgean attempt at Broomstreet , which stood two miles west of the combe ) . |
| 3 | At one end there was a green-glazed tile stove under a mantelpiece on which stood two bronzes , both modern . |
| 4 | It flooded across stream divides of the plateau , some of which stood 300–400 feet above today 's bounding valley bottoms . |
| 5 | Shelves lined the walls on which stood magical pots — organic , looking as if they 'd grown rather than been made , with the colours of the trees , the earth and the sea merging in the glaze . |
| 6 | She stood five feet six tall in her high-heeled shoes , her long hair was dark , and she was the kind of thirty-five-year-old woman men turned to look at when she passed them in the street . |
| 7 | He was tall , even by her standards , and she stood five feet ten in her stockinged feet . |
| 8 | She stood ten yards away , her chin tucked into her shoulder . |
| 9 | Between them and the stream itself stood half-grown clumps of purple loosestrife and fleabane , which would not flower for nearly two months yet . |
| 10 | Did they try to go for passing shots as they stood two feet behind the baseline ? |
| 11 | In front of her stood twelve women . |
| 12 | Beyond it stood four guards , their knives drawn . |
| 13 | Far below , in the street opposite the 550 building , stood the tall statue of the Garment Worker , strangely distorted from this angle , and around the plinth on which it stood ant-like figures of vagrants and layabouts sat , oblivious to the cold . |
| 14 | Built on the banks of the Tyne and opened in 1873 , it had been extended in 1893 until it stood three storeys high , 609 ft. long and 330 ft. wide . |
| 15 | In his mid forties , he stood six feet and his aura of authority dominated the room . |
| 16 | He stood three feet behind her with his adolescent arms folded inside his blue overall sleeves and said , ‘ That 's right . |