Example sentences of "[pron] stood the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every so often I stood the treat . |
| 2 | Then I stood the door across the end of the bed , so close that Jimbo 's right , dropping foot , where the muscle was n't holding , had no room to drop . |
| 3 | I stood the bottle on the tiled mantel and continued my chores , rewarding myself with a coffee and a stolen Woodbine in front of the newly-made fire , before fetching the groceries from the corner shop . |
| 4 | Although outwardly a man of the Establishment , Bill McEwan Younger had the self-confidence to adopt unorthodox views which stood the test of time . |
| 5 | Although the new cars were of radical body design , they used conventional equipment of proven reliability which stood the test of time . |
| 6 | We here crossed to the other side of the road , near to the Workhouse , and soon passed ( on the left ) a row of small houses called Cook 's Row , and a little further on another row — Church Row — at the northern end of which stood the Adam & Eve Inn with its attached Tea gardens . |
| 7 | In the philosophy of Aristotle , which had dominated the intellectual life of Europe since the thirteenth century , there had been a clear division in the cosmos between the perfect spheres beyond the moon and the corrupt sublunar sphere at the center of which stood the earth . |
| 8 | Joint third prize was won by London-based Allies and Morrison , two Edinburgh University architecture graduates who a few years earlier won the Edinburgh Mound Competition : one short-listed design from Midlothian was that by Duffy and Batt which stood the Glasgow salmon on its tail . |
| 9 | If she did n't find a safe corner to rest and eat she stood the chance of being caught . |
| 10 | She stood the envelope up on the mantel . |
| 11 | And there stood the sun , the sea , the boat , so many unambiguous things , around us . |
| 12 | There stood the King of Kings and the president , choking and weeping as they tried to praise each other , their wives by their sides . |
| 13 | Behind Napoleone Lomellini and his noblemen ; behind the Pallaviccino , the Doria , the families of Gentile , Verdure , Archerio , de Pastino and the ranked faces , filled with hate , of the soldiers , there stood the men hitherto guarded as hostages . |
| 14 | And they had to change because apartheid was at a dead end the people of South Africa were continuing with their struggle the country was ungovernable and there stood the prospect of more sanctions which would bring the noose around the apartheid system . |
| 15 | There stood the Shah , impeccable as ever in a well-cut grey suit and rather loud time ramrod straight , his face , always , expressionless before the cold white stare of his father . |
| 16 | Beside him stood the village priest , his face carefully bland . |
| 17 | In their eyes the Asiatic was a menace to British livelihoods , for behind him stood the reality of the unscrupulous shipowner , of whom anything , however disreputable , could be believed . |
| 18 | Next to it stood the engine which ran it , and the engineer . |
| 19 | Below it stood the childhood doll 's house she had intended to renovate for posterity and the guitar whose broken strings had halted her on the path to world fame as a singer of gypsy ballads , in a costume of scarlet and yellow sewn with little mirrors . |
| 20 | In the centre of the room there was a portrait of a very beautiful young man , and in front of it stood the artist himself , Basil Hallward . |
| 21 | He stood the boxes side by side and then realised that they were the same size . |
| 22 | Heavy industry produced not so much the industrial region as such as the company town , in which the fate of men and women depended on the fortunes and goodwill of a single master , behind whom stood the force of law and state power , which regarded his authority as necessary and beneficial . |