Example sentences of "[noun sg] stood on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , a priest stood on the floor of the parliament and refused to yield before being allowed to speak . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | When she went back to the kitchen Penry 's tray stood on the counter , the plates satisfactorily empty . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ I 've brought you a few things , ’ she said , glancing back to where her basket stood on the floor . |
| 6 | Some hearths were simply butted up against the surround , whilst in other designs , the surround stood on the hearth . |
| 7 | A half-empty bottle of red wine stood on the telephone table and he picked it up and drank from it with his left hand as he lifted the receiver with his right . |
| 8 | The drapers ' shop stood on the pavement opposite . |
| 9 | A packet of aspirin and half a glass of water stood on the tray on his desk . |
| 10 | A glass of water stood on the table beside the rose-shaded lamp , along with a torch and a candle and a box of matches in a pretty pottery holder . |
| 11 | At minimum heat and in a heavy well-closed pot stood on the floor of the oven rather than on a shelf , the timing would be however just about right . |
| 12 | To Sharpe 's left the stream flowed into a lake , while ahead of him , beyond the shallow ford , a farm with an arched gateway stood on the left-hand side of the road . |
| 13 | The man in the leather jacket stood on the platform for a moment longer before stepping up into the carriage next to Donna 's . |
| 14 | A handwritten menu stood on the bar . |
| 15 | A large puce Chinese lantern dangled from the ceiling and a silver tinsel Christmas tree stood on the coffee table . |
| 16 | Bottles of whisky and vodka stood on the mantelpiece of his room , often replaced . |
| 17 | The room was small , and if a chair stood on the other side of the fireplace from where Aunt Louise sat , it was in the way of anyone passing through the door leading into the kitchen , or that leading to the stairs . |
| 18 | The woman stood on the grey carpet . |
| 19 | There is little doubt that some sort of hostelry stood on the site from the Middle Ages . |
| 20 | Nanny stood on the bridge that spanned the ornamental lake and looked back at the beautiful house that had been her home for the last thirty years . |
| 21 | It is interesting to note that when an epergne stood on the table , there were no creams , jellies , or syllabubs in glasses mentioned in the dessert course , but Lady Grisell herself did not possess such an ornament and for her own dinners still served " sweetmeats and jelly and sillibubs " , curds and cream , pears and apples , " pistaches and scorcht almonds , Bisket round the milk " in the old way in separate dishes , in glasses on footed salvers , and in sweetmeat glasses . |
| 22 | As the train stood on the platform we did not know if we would ever board it . |
| 23 | Even as this portrait of the work in Suffolk was being painted , the Eastern District stood on the threshold of a major new development , which was to become a source of considerable pride . |
| 24 | The curtains were open and Finn stood on the stage surrounded by cans of paint , open eyes of pure of colour , working on a blackcloth showing a sea with a blood-orange sunset , something like the background to the picture of the dog in the kitchen . |
| 25 | PRESIDENT Mikhail Gorbachev has appealed to the Russian Republic not to go it alone on reform and warned that the Soviet Union stood on the brink of an economic and political abyss . |
| 26 | Holy Trinity Church stood on the corner diagonally opposite the ‘ Robin Hood ’ . |
| 27 | A man stood on the porch , his hands in the pocket of his beige mackintosh . |
| 28 | A pile of wooden boxes as tall as a man stood on the quay . |
| 29 | She found the trug in the outhouse , not the kitchen , and cleaned it before trotting off towards the rectory , which was quite a long walk from Vetch Street , through a rowdy street market where an organ-grinder and his monkey were performing , and a Punch and Judy man stood on the corner , and Sally-Anne — no longer McAllister now that she was out of the house — for all of her advanced years stood and watched Mr Punch for some time before she guiltily remembered what she was supposed to be doing . |
| 30 | An ancient chalice and a ceremonial knife stood on the altar . |