Example sentences of "[pron] stood a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I stood a starving child before you , |
| 2 | Yanto was pointing across the valley to the next hill , on top of which stood a tall ancient tower with turreted ramparts . |
| 3 | She looked across to a bureau on which stood a framed certificate for TV Presenter of the Year Award . |
| 4 | Mildred decided to get to the chest of drawers , on which stood a small mirror , so that she could see just how small she was . |
| 5 | It consisted of a small oblong patch of mown but weedy grass , in the centre of which stood a small green flowerless shrub with dirty leaves . |
| 6 | Soon we reached the shrine , a car-park-like space beside the road in which stood a large glass tank containing a painted figure of Mary looking with pity on Jesus crucified . |
| 7 | This door led to a large entrance lobby , to the right of which stood a luxurious bathroom , while to the left was a range of built-in wardrobes . |
| 8 | The architect did not try to reproduce a mediaeval church with aisles and chancel but chose an octagon shape with one side designated as an ‘ east end ’ with a window under which stood a Holy Table . |
| 9 | As she did so , she noticed that the heath adjoining the road rose up to a small hill , on top of which stood an old and dilapidated windmill . |
| 10 | The presence of Capellan directors and Eladeldi police did not seem so oppressively dispiriting when you stood a good chance of killing yourself , if you pushed it . |
| 11 | It seemed to Preston that if you avoided being stabbed to death by terror gangs , you stood an even chance of being burned to death by sudden conflagration , or pushed on to the live line by a psychopath lurking among the rush-hour crowds , or struck down by a heart attack brought on by the extreme rage and frustration of trying to understand a platform announcement . |
| 12 | He searched the throng with his eyes from where we stood a good twenty paces away out in the station . |
| 13 | We stood a good few minutes in the entrance hall , and a gentleman came through and smiled , and someone said it was Billy Graham , Mr Wogan 's other guest . |
| 14 | To the right was another door ; beside this one stood a uniformed man in what looked like a Securicor outfit . |
| 15 | ‘ Outside one stood a penny-in-the-slot model of a jet workshop , made by my great uncle George Wood . |
| 16 | Where the River Lovat flows out of Lake Ilmen and north to Lake Ladoga , there stood a great city with wooden walls . |
| 17 | There stood a grand piano and a BMW . |
| 18 | There stood a strong wooden house , big enough for forty people , and with holes for guns on every side . |
| 19 | Where Semer Water stands now there stood a fine city with towers , domes and spires reaching to the sky , and its streets , houses and shops were full of busy people . |
| 20 | He knocked boldly on the door of this house , and there was a rustling , and creaking , and the door opened a tiny crack , and there stood a little man , with a face as grey as morning ashes , and a long woolly beard the same colour . |
| 21 | He and his fellow escapee had been told that if they could get to Marseilles , then in unoccupied France , they stood a good chance of finding a ship bound for England . |
| 22 | Beside her stood a pleasant-looking , round , grey-haired woman , unsure of what to do , hesitating about whether to hush the weeping figure or let her cry . |
| 23 | Beside her stood a small , red-haired girl , white-faced and dark-eyed . |
| 24 | At either side of her stood a faithful attendant , one being a confidential maid , the other a Miss Drake — an old , mittened companion , hardly younger in appearance than herself — both of whom watched her with eyes of solicitous reverence , and seemed always ready to collapse into quasi-religious curtseys . |
| 25 | Amongst the papers before him stood an empty breakfast cup and an egg-smeared plate , suggesting that his digestion was as robust as his nerve . |
| 26 | An oval mirror , pock-marked and fly-stained , was set in the top of this extravagant and monstrous contraption and next to it stood a hollow elephant 's foot mounted on a wooden base . |
| 27 | It stood a clear 10ft above the other trees , like a flag on top of a fortress , its mushroom structure always pressing for the extra light due to its extra height . |
| 28 | Behind it stood an old-fashioned switchboard and numbered pigeon-holes for the guests ' post . |
| 29 | Underneath it stood an orange box on top of which were two flower pots . |
| 30 | Next to it stood an empty tubular blue clothes rack , a tubular blue chair , a tubular blue AV rig . |