Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] stood [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I stood by the vice for quite a time and then I went to pick something up , turned round , told you , you do that you 'll do nothing else . |
| 2 | So I stood by the door I wait till dad come in cos he was the last out and it was always my fault like , I would have left the fire on not him . |
| 3 | So I stood by the door and I never moved till he went in oh he said But with a caravan I do n't know . |
| 4 | I do n't know how long I stood in front of it . |
| 5 | He could n't cry , he could n't feel ; he did n't know how long he stood outside the door , leaning against the greasy wall . |
| 6 | As the dog jumped down he stood by Helen for a moment wagging his tail while she stroked his beautiful head . |
| 7 | So he stood with her , and held her , and very soon nature began to teach them both what to do , and before very long the neighbours heard a little shriek come from Pascoe 's cottage , and the old wives glanced and nodded to each other , content that the marriage had been consummated , and anxious to share with each other reminiscences of their own experiences in similar circumstances . |
| 8 | So he stood for ten minutes at the window watching soldiers tossing bundles of equipment into the gurg-ling FV 432s parked around the parade ground and feeling the deep contentment of seeing other people working very hard very early in the day . |
| 9 | It ran deep and silent , the willows swaying above it ; and soon they stood by the foot of the rock . |
| 10 | Outside he stood on the steps for a minute , surveying his city and sniffing the morning air . |
| 11 | Although she put them firmly into the category of ‘ workers ’ , rather than ‘ idlers ’ , and therefore to be praised , they were not quite on a par with the Welsh factory workers , or designers ; nonetheless they stood on a higher plane than accountants , clerks or corporate planners . |
| 12 | He had been so blinded by his need for her light that he had failed to see how deeply he stood in her shadow , and his work had been frustrated thereby . |
| 13 | Twenty minutes later she stood in front of the mirror wearing the fragile lace undies which were also the result of her impulse-buying . |
| 14 | The tip of one finger touched it , she strove no more for the rest , up sh up she stood to attention with the barrel beneath her breast . |
| 15 | Five minutes later they stood on the grassy bank looking down at the brown water . |
| 16 | He was wounded at the siege of Leith in 1560 and nine years later he stood against the northern rising , subsequently advising on the defence of the northern border . |
| 17 | Whenever he stood at the turn of the great stairs , with the entrance-hall and main door at his back , he knew he was facing the very worst the house could offer . |
| 18 | Hearing that the young man was the only son of a gentleman of wealth , the money-lender begged of him never to hesitate in coming to him again whenever he stood in need of a ‘ friend ’ . |
| 19 | Ten years later it stood at 3,253 , then over the next decade it shot up to 5,169 . |
| 20 | Now she stood beside me and watched the white Lincoln drive out of the boatyard . |
| 21 | Now she stood at the gate of Ten-acre Pasture , staring across the hedgetops to the control tower that jutted into the gentle landscape with angular obscenity , begging silently that when she turned the corner he would be there . |
| 22 | Now they stood to the walls , and if they fell , had no more help than the civilians had . |
| 23 | Now they stood beside the adamantium hatch . |
| 24 | Prior to the election Labour had twenty-eight seats and the Alliance twenty , now it stood at thirty-six and twenty-four respectively , and after the by-elections subsequent to the election of aldermen , forty and twenty-four . |
| 25 | He had come into Merrill 's office ostensibly for paper-clips , and now he stood with his back towards her , staring out of the window on to the rain-swept traffic below . |
| 26 | Now he stood behind me , so that I could feel the warmth of his body , but I was facing the box hedge , so close to it that I could n't turn . |
| 27 | Now he stood near the door with his hands clasping each other behind his back and his scalp itching furiously in the heat . |
| 28 | Now he stood in his office drinking from a paper cup , swilling the Southern Comfort around , staring into the liquid . |
| 29 | ‘ My dining room faces north and is difficult to heat , ’ he had said to Ianthe , and now he stood in it looking out of the window at the cold March day , fully conscious of his words . |
| 30 | Originally it stood in a small church in Via San Pietrò which has long since disappeared , and was christened the ‘ Man of Stone ’ when it was repositioned . |