Example sentences of "[noun sg] stood [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Old Den stood at the opposite side of the grave with Tommy Drennan , each with a cord ready to help lay Celia and Dermot Murphy to rest . |
| 2 | A spade and a pitchfork stood against the wall beneath , beside a pair of boots , the mud on them dried , flaky to the touch . |
| 3 | However , a priest stood on the floor of the parliament and refused to yield before being allowed to speak . |
| 4 | Myles edged in , hands twisting the brim of his hat , while the young priest stood at the door looking curiously on . |
| 5 | They discovered the manor stood on the site of a medieval castle ‘ the lost palace ’ of Llywelyn Fawr ( Llewelyn the Great ) and his son , Llywelyn , the last Welsh prince . |
| 6 | A baptismal font stood near the doorway , a row of squat white pillars on either side of dark transepts , then through a rood screen into a plain , stone sanctuary . |
| 7 | The ambulance stood in the road . |
| 8 | Dot stood outside the double swing doors . |
| 9 | Dot stood by the open window . |
| 10 | Told to an outsider , the history of a lineage stood for the history of the tribe . |
| 11 | Frankenstein 's monster stood outside the shattered door . |
| 12 | When she went back to the kitchen Penry 's tray stood on the counter , the plates satisfactorily empty . |
| 13 | ‘ You said someone who had been travelling through snow stood at the back of the church . ’ |
| 14 | The significance of the Carmelite school has been greatly exaggerated because of the widespread misunderstanding that the Carmelite Whitefriary stood on the site of the hospital , an important monastic site with a splendid fourteenth-century gate . |
| 15 | For his part , the President stood with the rest of the politburo on the mausoleum of the man who made it all happen — Lenin — and took the salute at the military and civilian parade through Red Square . |
| 16 | A minibus with the words ‘ Conway House ’ emblazoned across its side stood at the entrance , its driver talking to Sybil and David . |
| 17 | A sombre stone chamber , its walls were adorned with green velvet drapes while a polished table with benches on either side stood in the middle of the rush-strewn floor . |
| 18 | The figure stood over the prostrate Doctor . |
| 19 | A figure stood in the door , silhouetted against the light . |
| 20 | The uniformed figure stood in the doorway , eyeing the occupants of the cell impassively . |
| 21 | A figure stood in the rectangle of light , attracted by the noise . |
| 22 | The stranger stood in the Fournier 's drawing-room in a simple white dress and some jewellery . |
| 23 | The chief superintendent stood by the window watching the descent of the autumn sun through a cobweb of grey cloud , his hands in the pockets of his trousers , which , Blanche noticed , were always slightly too tight . |
| 24 | Battle stood outside the authority of both . |
| 25 | ‘ I 've brought you a few things , ’ she said , glancing back to where her basket stood on the floor . |
| 26 | A small dog basket stood near the hearth . |
| 27 | Buchanan stood up , putting on his coat as Warden stood at the same time . |
| 28 | Roscarrock Hall stood at the southern end of the village of Polruan , occupying several acres of terraced fields , outbuildings and woodland . |
| 29 | ‘ The hijacker stood in the aisle and explained in Russian how his hand grenades worked , ’ Vyacheslav Babin from Tyumen told the Swedish daily Dagens Nyheter in Tallinn . |
| 30 | The Indian stood in the doorway , a duffle bag looped over one shoulder , and looked at the two phones on the desk . |