Example sentences of "[pron] stood [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I stood looking at the pools of water lying on the pitch , the door of the directors ' Portakabin swinging back and forth on its one remaining hinge , and I recalled the good times , remembered the bad . |
| 2 | Drying off after a shower , I stood looking at two framed movie posters on the bathroom wall . |
| 3 | I stood looking at it in the darkness , just aware of its bulk in the feeble light of a broken moon , and I thought it looked even bigger than it really was , like a stone-giant 's head , a huge moonlit skull full of shapes and memories , staring out to sea and attached to a vast , powerful body buried in the rock and sand beneath , ready to shrug itself free and disinter itself on some unknowable command or cue . |
| 4 | But the painting said nothing at all to me as I stood gazing at it . |
| 5 | But I was n't afraid now with my big sister , and while Mary tried on garments I stood gazing in awe at all the sumptuous clothes that hung in the display cases . |
| 6 | So we worked at it : he went to one end of a huge rehearsal room while I stood yelling at him from the other . |
| 7 | Or again late at night as I stood shivering at my bedroom window looking out on the frosted garden , unable to sleep and unable to understand why . |
| 8 | I stood thinking at the door . |
| 9 | I stood leaning on the staff , grinning and throwing an arm in the air as he approached , but he and his companion never so much as looked as they sped back to Adrar . |
| 10 | I stood leaning against the tall coconut palm tree . |
| 11 | As I stood hesitating in the doorway , Miss Kenton appeared at my side and said : ‘ Mr Stevens , I have a little more time than you at the moment . |
| 12 | I stood staring at the jeep as it bumped and swayed over the uneven ground of the orchard until it reached the road and then disappeared in a cloud of dust . |
| 13 | I stood staring at them in utter bewilderment . |
| 14 | I stood staring at her . |
| 15 | Fifteen minutes later , or it may have been twenty , I stood staring at a caged lift : the chest-flexing iron lattice , the accordion doors . |
| 16 | I stood staring for a long while . |
| 17 | I stood waiting in the pre-dawn dark watching house lights go on . |
| 18 | The bus was cosy and , as I stood dangling from a strap with the other excess passengers , someone asked the driver if Hampstead Road was still closed off to traffic going north . |
| 19 | It was also the cold : a chill wind had risen during the morning and ruffled the feathers of a sparrow which stood shivering on the window-ledge . |
| 20 | But they were unable to spin out their game for long ; impatience got the better of them and they returned the puppy , which stood shivering under its mother 's tongue as she licked it clean of foreign influences . |
| 21 | She stood listening for a few minutes , trying not to smile . |
| 22 | She stood looking at him expectantly . |
| 23 | By the garden gate of Four Winds she stood looking at the house for several minutes in silence before they got back into the car and she told him how to get to the Inn on the Point . |
| 24 | But now as she stood looking at herself in a full length looking glass , she could see that she had indeed what the magazines described as the perfect figure , firm round breasts , a narrow flat waist , good hips , a small posterior , and long slender legs which were greatly enhanced by the silk stockings the assistant had carefully rolled on to them . |
| 25 | When she came in she stood looking at the figure stretched out on the floor . |
| 26 | She stood looking at me from the end of the bed . |
| 27 | She stood looking about her ; at his plank bed with the bedclothes neatly pulled over it ; at the old easy chair with the stuffing sticking out of its seat . |
| 28 | She was breathing too hard , too noisily she stood looking into a window to slow her breath . |
| 29 | Jasper and she stood looking into each other 's faces , alive and tingling and delighted , knowing that anyone looking at them could guess , simply from the waves of energy that danced from them . |
| 30 | She stood looking towards the balcony and beyond it the sea . |