Example sentences of "[adv] standing in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He 's just standing in the stream . ’ |
| 2 | He was already standing in the doorway , looking at her , and looking damned pleased with himself , too . |
| 3 | The big house ( Brigade H.Q ) was also deserted , the transport and the staff had just left , except the jeep still standing in the driveway . |
| 4 | I looked round , the farmer was still standing in the middle of the road ; . |
| 5 | But not so for the Magyars who had been so praised in 1848 , ‘ an obscure semibarbarous people … still standing in the half-civilization of the sixteenth century ’ . |
| 6 | In Beirut , I told Damiani of what Shlomo Green had said , of the warm old house with the mock Grecian pillars still standing in the front hall . |
| 7 | Bishop Trelawney 's home , Trelawne , is still standing in the parish , as is the ancient manor of Tregarrick , one time home of the Winslades and now a farm . |
| 8 | After all , Colin is still standing in the middle with a guitar . |
| 9 | Coming to Old Gang Smelting Mills we stopped to look for a while at the most complete collection of buildings still standing in the mining field , although comparing them now with photographs taken in the 1930s it 's obvious that they 're slowly falling apart . |
| 10 | Perhaps here and there the old man would have found some evidences of the former world : the windmill of his younger days still standing in the corner of a new field , though now derelict and forlorn , or the traces of the former strips in the ridge-and-furrow of the new pastures , but not much else . |
| 11 | But the sounds of gasping breath rasped and echoed as Cardiff turned to see that Jimmy and Barbara were still standing in the stairwell . |
| 12 | And another part was still looking out of the rear window of the taxi at the green hills receding behind the tiled roofs into the morning sunshine ; still standing in the corridor of the train as the flat terrain of southern England slid past and a great weight built up steadily in my chest . |
| 13 | Claudia raced for the towel ; he was still standing in the same place and still looking helpless as she dealt briskly with the spill . |
| 14 | She was probably standing in the kitchen , listening and wringing her hands … |
| 15 | At a greater distance from the throne are the inferior nobles , also standing in the same posture of profound reverence . |
| 16 | ‘ At least let me wash them up , ’ replied Sally-Anne determinedly , and , Rose giving way , she discovered that the water had to be fetched from a tap in the inside court , there being none piped into any of the surrounding buildings , and the privy was a common one , also standing in the yard . |
| 17 | Also standing in the Swindon constituency is Vincent Farrar , former accountant at Swindon Town football club . |
| 18 | ‘ The only result is that a large heron discovered that when it activated the floodlight it enabled him/her to decimate my expensive collection of koi carp , brazenly standing in the middle of the pool at 10.30pm . ’ |
| 19 | Four of them were now standing in the mud trough between the sand and the bank , about fifty yards upstream of the breakwater . |
| 20 | The men were now standing in the long attic corridor containing the sleeping quarters Grant had visited on his recce of the house . |
| 21 | The Green spot Environmental Award was given to the company for providing a bottle bank , now standing in the Johnstone Co-op Car Park , with proceeds from the sale of glass being sent to the St Vincent de Paul Hospice , Johnstone . |
| 22 | we 'll be sitting in the playground for ages , well standing in the playground for ages . |
| 23 | Having guided my patient into a state of hypnotic relaxation , I asked her to imagine that she was indeed standing in the hall of her own house , just outside the cupboard under the stairs . |
| 24 | Yes you 're quite right there because part of the street , the pavement and hard standing in the gardens for the cars which was a very good idea , now there 's the city have done two thirds of that and then when they came to the end of the er cul-de- sac , |
| 25 | Once we decanted ourselves and our luggage , rushed over the bridge and there standing in the bay was our special favourite , the Bishop 's Castle train . |
| 26 | This adjective , emphasizing its size , is inserted to distinguish it from his great organ ( sic ) , then standing in the theatre at Covent Garden ( which , incidentally , he left not to Smith but to John Rich ) . |
| 27 | A 20ft tall origami tree is currently standing in the Roosevelt Hall of New York 's Natural History Museum . |