Example sentences of "[pron] stood [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the end of my final year I stood as a sabbatical officer for the Union . |
| 2 | I stood for a long time in a telephone box just to keep out of the slicing rain . |
| 3 | I stood for a long while looking at Voting Right . |
| 4 | This done , I stood for a moment looking across at the broch islet . |
| 5 | I stood for a moment looking at the mattress on the bed where a knife had been used to open up the sides . |
| 6 | I stood for a long time , staring at the mirror . |
| 7 | I stood with a group of officials and other bystanders . |
| 8 | At an election rally in the Wembley Conference Centre in 1983 , I stood on a nail in my training shoes and it went nearly four centimetres into my foot . |
| 9 | If I stood on a street corner somewhere , someone could slip me a small packet in exchange for a fiver and in a few hours I 'd be slumped on the floor of a public toilet : a Drug Statistic . |
| 10 | I could hear the sound of rent cloth in my head , but I stood on a wooden chair while Lili pinned the seams closer , standing quietly like a broken horse to be saddled and bridled . |
| 11 | I would send it swooping over and under hers , or dive it down to the sands while I stood on a dune cliff , pulling the kite down to nick tall towers of sand I 'd built , then pulling up again , the kite trailing a spray of sand through the air from the collapsing tower . |
| 12 | I stood amid a gaggle of laughing students in frozen silence , and read the list over and over again . |
| 13 | She said , ‘ Well , if there 's nothing else for it ’ , and began to fold and manipulate the wedding dress while I stood like a doll , cold and alien and powerless . |
| 14 | Mr and Mrs Smith , the benign proprietors , were always good to me , giving me a lolly or a ‘ black jack ’ every time I shopped there , and I was looking forward to the treat as I stood behind a small queue masking the counter . |
| 15 | On Monday morning , I stood in a queue at the Diamond , and waited for the Dublin coach . |
| 16 | I stood in a short sling and laybacked over the bulge on a jammed stone into a smooth scoop . |
| 17 | I stood in a white wilderness , and perceived that to gather wood for burning in such conditions was not easy . |
| 18 | This peculiarly unpleasant mixture combined to become a mudflow , which over-ran everything in its path ; in particular a large sugar processing plant , the Usine Guerin , which stood on a tongue of flat land in the valley of the Riviere Blanche , surrounded by sugar-cane plantations . |
| 19 | It is a figure of Athena ( fig. 73 ) , headless , which stood on a column inscribed with the names of Angelitos as dedicator and Euenor as maker . |
| 20 | Rollers for the pump flat-rods or chains , and the winding chain , were positioned at intervals up the incline to a pivot and a wheel at the tunnel mouth , then along the tunnel to a balance-bob which stood on a platform cut out specially , and the winding chain over a heavy sheaved wheel above the shaft . |
| 21 | Cathy picked up the telephone which stood on a side table . |
| 22 | She lay on her back on a wooden trestle table which stood under a palm leaf awning in the shady corner of a broad courtyard in the Place of Healing . |
| 23 | In 1913 Malevitch , whose work at this period showed traces of both Cubist and Futurist influence , was preparing to launch the Suprematist movement which stood for a more purely abstract style than anything yet seen . |
| 24 | a nationalism which stood upon a critique of the very idea of civil society , a movement supported by the bourgeoisie which rejected the idea of progress , the ideology of a political organisation fighting for the creation of a modern national State which accepted at the same time the ideology of ‘ enlightened anarchy ’ . |
| 25 | Every Saturday found me in the Hippodrome , our nearest cinema , which stood like a red-brick wireless set at the junction of Main Street , Byrely Road and Auckland Terrace . |
| 26 | Molassi sat cross legged next to a thin column of bright white light , which stood like a radiant strut at the centre of the chamber . |
| 27 | It differed considerably from the big brash construction currently on display at the town hall , which stood beneath a sign which read |
| 28 | Aquitaine was then surrounded on all sides ( except the sea coast ) by fiefs which stood in a more immediate relationship to the Capetians than ever before . |
| 29 | There was Blind Man 's Buff , and a thing called Find the Penny , in which he himself stood like a statue in the centre of the sitting-room while the boy searched him all over , rifling through his pockets for a hidden coin . |
| 30 | And then every year after that , they used to hold the one minute 's silence which the mill whistles went and of course you stood for a minute and then they went again and that was it over . |