Example sentences of "[noun pl] stood [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ A lot of the kids stood on the fringe and would have like to join in , but their friends would have called them puffs . |
| 2 | Bobby Gillespie was right when he told me , ‘ I used to go stand where all the young kids stood in the corner . |
| 3 | Simple tent-shaped straw huts stood on the spongy surface with fish-tails at their doorways and rumpled blankets inside . |
| 4 | My two guards stood in the doorway . |
| 5 | Two guards with guns stood behind him and two more guards stood near the door . |
| 6 | A total of 553 candidates stood for the 120 seats in the Assembly . |
| 7 | Two police armoured cars stood outside the courthouse . |
| 8 | Two police armoured cars stood outside the courthouse . |
| 9 | So matters stood in the immediate aftermath of the war . |
| 10 | She heard him call after her and got into one of the swing boats with a pale , freckled little boy who was hanging nervously on to the rope while his plain , doting parents stood beside the boat , saying encouragingly , ‘ Go on , Sidney , it 'll be such fun . ’ |
| 11 | There was a stretch of curved gravel , edged with planks , near this end of the field ; six posts stood along the front edge of the gravel stand , and on top of each post there was a little flat piece of wood like a tray . |
| 12 | The interior spaces were divided by peristyles bearing classical statuary , while other statues stood in the round-arched window spaces . |
| 13 | At the trial , 10 individual defendants stood in the dock along with three corporate defendants — County NatWest , Phillips & Drew and the NatWest Investment Bank . |
| 14 | The three older defendants stood in the dock flanked by police officers . |
| 15 | A few cane chairs with bright cushions stood near the windows , whose heavy drapes matched the carpeting . |
| 16 | In the kitchen the meat sizzled in the oven and a big pan of potatoes stood on the hob . |
| 17 | A bowl of hot , buttered , boiled potatoes stood in the middle of the table . |
| 18 | The packing had been done in the basement to avoid break ages , and the two crates stood at the foot of the stairs . |
| 19 | Some stations stood in the heart of thriving capital cities and teemed with life day and night ; others in desolate fastnesses , where as Dickens remarked of the remote New England depots , ‘ the wild impossibility of anybody having the smallest reason to get out is only equalled by the apparently desperate hopelessness of there being anybody to get in ’ . |
| 20 | Also the parish stocks stood in the Market Place . |
| 21 | Underneath that I have another article to which was kicked out sometime later but I have it in here , it says , raid on Gdynia would surprise to Nazis to say refugees in Sweden tell how the non Germans cheered in the streets but the two refugees eye witnesses to the American Bombing Attack on Gdynia , October ninth , reported here that the raid caught the Germans by surprise and that non German workers stood in the streets and cheered amid terrific destruction . |
| 22 | Latecomers stood in the entrances , looking forlorn . |
| 23 | IMC troopers stood along the periphery of the room with raised weapons . |
| 24 | No mill-oxen dragged by : no cattle stood in the marshes or sheep , lately shorn , walked with their lambs on the hills . |
| 25 | Two other cavalry officers stood behind the Captain . |
| 26 | Some large investors stood on the sidelines , happy to have moved money out of UK companies earlier in the year to overseas markets . |
| 27 | Two androids stood at the door , pointing their weapons in his direction . |
| 28 | But it was Eadmer , with his keen eye for significant detail , who noted two points omitted by Osbern : he observed that , as the monks stood round the sufferer , each of the two groups spoke a language which the other could not understand ; and also he remarked that things went more smoothly after this event . |
| 29 | On Sept. 7 Zifferero stressed that Iraq 's refusal to give details of its foreign arms suppliers stood in the way of full compliance with Gulf ceasefire resolutions . |
| 30 | Coloured glasses stood on the shelves . |