Example sentences of "[pron] stood [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I agree it 's hard to distinguish between our footprints but this stain , this wetness , shows someone stood here for some time , their cloak and boots heavy with snow . |
| 2 | Someone stood carelessly among the embers , as if having his flesh charred was the least of his worries . |
| 3 | I stood outside for fifteen months with some girls from Barking Hospital , some of yous people might remember that . |
| 4 | A little later , I stood nervously beside my bag , hoping that I was at the right bus stop for Sligo . |
| 5 | I could n't look as I stood helplessly at the top of stairs listening to him bumping and thudding from step to step until he reached the bottom . |
| 6 | I was up there three days campaigning , objecting to this that I 'm being charged and believe me for those three days I stood right in Queen Street , just outside the offices there , and at no , any time during , at any particular time of day , you could have come along to me , and there were still one thousand five hundred people standing there , rain , hail , sleet or blow . |
| 7 | I stood there for a while in the damp grey afternoon and whispered : ‘ Godspeed . ’ |
| 8 | So I stood there for at least five minutes , watching Hairy Back and wondering which way to go . |
| 9 | So I decided at least I stood there for ten minutes which one should I take ? |
| 10 | As I stood there with the pencil hovering over the ballot paper , the child 's voice echoed in my ear . |
| 11 | I stood there with my hands in my pockets , and cursed . |
| 12 | But it just fell into me as I stood there with her . |
| 13 | I stood there with a suit on my shoulder and said who I was . |
| 14 | I stood there with the salt spray and the mist damp on my face , and the vastness of it , and the antiquity of the desolate remains behind me , made all my life to date seem insignificant and of no account . |
| 15 | I stood there with a mop at the side , and he sort of looked at me and all the water the came in ! |
| 16 | So , as I stood there on Hampstead Heath , I felt that it was just from that point of view that the single surviving Pinus sylvestris was intended to be seen . |
| 17 | I stood there on the beach waiting to feel this excruciating pain , but nothing came , so I must have escaped . ’ |
| 18 | I stood there on my doorstep with him , and I actually considered it . |
| 19 | I stood there at the entrance to her lair , hesitating , unsure of what to do next . |
| 20 | Apparently he had n't heard the door and I stood there until slowly , still reading , he set his head in my direction and smiled . |
| 21 | As Pyke got me a half of bitter I stood there regarding the rows of inverted bottles behind the barman 's head , not looking at the other actors in the pub , who I knew were all staring at me . |
| 22 | I stood there like a fool , watching him . |
| 23 | ‘ Well , he just did , ’ Mitch muttered , ‘ and I stood there like an idiot , my mouth open and my camera not four yards behind me . ’ |
| 24 | I stood there like a half-opened penknife , splattering the forecourt noisily . |
| 25 | I stood there in the trees , absolutely at a loss ; and then smiled . |
| 26 | I stood there in the dark and the rain , and knew that I had created a monster . |
| 27 | I stood fearfully against a board as in rapid succession the knives flashed through the air and encircled my body . |
| 28 | The entranced girl I stood behind in the gallery at Covent Garden in June , nearly fainting in the heat — such a summer , that year — to hear Chaliapin in Prince Igor … |
| 29 | He was an uncomplicated , well-meaning Organisation Man and was always called ‘ JC ’ , which stood either for Jesus Christ or Julius Caesar . |
| 30 | He stayed the night at her cottage which stood just below Purbeck House . |