Example sentences of "[pron] stood at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I stood at the window and looked down into the street . |
| 2 | I stood at the front door of No. 5 , watching Dana straddle his bike , adjust his backpack and wave cheerily to me as he roared off down the road . |
| 3 | I stood at the door and looked up , but the windows were dark ; she had gone to bed . |
| 4 | As a small boy , growing up in Liverpool , I stood at the Pier Head and marvelled at the huge Atlantic liners berthed at the world 's largest floating landing-stage . |
| 5 | I stood at the foot of the bed and watched my grandfather go to sleep . |
| 6 | I stood at the edge of a circle of standing stones , each eight to ten foot high , with a massive central stone which leaned at a perilous angle . |
| 7 | Employing a lounge-lizard gait , he swaggered towards me as I stood at the bar waiting for my Coke . |
| 8 | And then he was pushed roughly on , and suddenly , inexplicably my mind was filled with a vivid picture of Christ looking down at me as I stood at the foot of the cross . |
| 9 | Happiness , I knew , was not something she thought much of as an end : it was as if she had said , I 'm glad you do n't mind being poor , and , although when I replied to her , it was only to tell her about the baby , Thomas , and how he had put on five pounds and had cut his first tooth , I brooded over what I might have said while I stood at the sink or pushed the pram , making great , windy speeches in my mind , venting on my absent aunt the curious , unreasonable anger that seemed to rise up before me like a dark pit , bottomless and frightening . |
| 10 | Images of animals huddled together for warmth , safety and companionship floated into my mind as I stood at the side of this man , watching him examine firearms . |
| 11 | I stood at the front door for a long time being soaked by the rain . |
| 12 | I stood at the bar with the Morning Line , WITCH WHO LIED FOR DR SEX . |
| 13 | I stood at the top of the slope . |
| 14 | In the city , I stood at the window and identified the cars as they breezed by . |
| 15 | I stood at the doorway , waiting . |
| 16 | When I stood at the doorway , hesitating to dash into the pouring rain , I could see that the landscape had moved with the date . |
| 17 | I saw him a few times more after that , in the months that followed , coming slowly up the lane from the station , as Millie and I stood at the gate . |
| 18 | I stood at the front door and it was around my ankles , within five minutes it was around my knees , ’ said Joanne . |
| 19 | It was the decaying thatched cottage known as Gilbard 's which stood at the top of Lime Street in Stowey , and which had been occupied until then by a widow called Elizabeth Rendell . |
| 20 | Euston , Tom Eckersley : a reminder of the Doric Arch which stood at the entrance to the BR station . |
| 21 | Dinah learnt the lines , was laced into the vulgar striped dress the part required , which had stains under the arms from the young lady off sick , was heavily rouged and had her eyebrows blackened , and walked on to the boards to the flare of gaslight and the outline of gentlemen in bowler hats they had not troubled to remove , refreshing themselves at the bar which stood at the back of the theatre . |
| 22 | He recalled the ancient baptistery which stood at the east end of the church , where the bodies of the archbishops had lain , and where the trials by ordeal had taken place . |
| 23 | But in this period his salary , although not extravagant , was generous enough : the priest at Longdendale was allocated less than half the Master 's £10 , which stood at the higher level of salaries , ranging from £4 6 0d to £12 6 0d , at this time for such a position . |
| 24 | King Edward of England sat in his purple silken pavilion which stood at the centre of his great camp on the green meadows beneath the formidable mass of Nottingham Castle . |
| 25 | By the way — ’ She opened her bag and drew out the incriminating tape , which she put down on the round antique table which stood at the centre of the hall . |
| 26 | My store of money began to dwindle but at last I found Le Coq d'Or , a dingy , two-storey building which stood at the mouth of one of the runnels on the far side of the Grand Pont opposite the elaborately carved Notre Dame Cathedral . |
| 27 | So he jumped head first into the forty-gallon oil-drum full of rainwater which stood at the rear of the caravan . |
| 28 | She stood at the door and stared . |
| 29 | She stood at the bottom of the bed and reached out her hands to catch his and pull them forward . |
| 30 | She stood at the sink , chopping courgettes and aubergines , when he came in , and did not look up , so he surmised that the mood was bad . |