Example sentences of "[pers pn] stand [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the first six lines he asks when that love which is incarnated in Jesus will " com to comforth me " " bryng me owt of care " " gyf me " , and sets these verbs of power potentially activated on his behalf with his own sense of motionless deprivation : " I stand in still mowrnyng " . |
| 2 | ‘ You know where you stand , Yusuf , ’ said the doctor — ‘ you stand on slippery ground . |
| 3 | She stood with closed eyes , listening to the measured footsteps . |
| 4 | She stood with hunched shoulders , a pathetic picture of defeat and despair . |
| 5 | For a few minutes she stood in shocked silence ; she had been so sure that the rider from the woods had been herself … but now , realizing that the lover she had seen had been Morthen , she felt angry and upset . |
| 6 | Viola Machin , nevertheless , seemed impervious to it : she stood in bosomy grief , in a becoming coat of umber shade , dabbing her eyes at the pathetic bits of the service ; Desmond , in a heavy black coat , managed only an insurance agent 's decorous grief ; and Hilary looked as if cheerfulness might keep breaking through — which would probably , after all , be what Hilda would have liked most . |
| 7 | She needed someone to talk to about it all , needed a sharer of secrets , an ear to listen to her plans and , above all , someone to agree that she was on the right course , that both shopping expedition and holiday were what she stood in urgent need of . |
| 8 | She stood against laurel-black cherries |
| 9 | If only she could turn her back on the golden Dane whose gaze still ensnared her , lose herself in the masses and find her own way back to the hotel , but she was held where she stood by invisible chains . |
| 10 | She stood by detached . |
| 11 | if we demand freedom of secession for the Mongolians , Persians , Egyptians and all other oppressed and unequal nations without exception , we do so not because we favour secession , but only because we stand for free , voluntary association and merging as distinct from forcible association . |
| 12 | We stand on opposite sides of the bed . |
| 13 | till we stand in all-modern pride , |
| 14 | We stand in savoury fumes like pillars , |
| 15 | The Fish got us a good position at the back of the club , where we stood on wooden beer crates holding on to each other as the floor seemed about to crack open with heat and stomping . |
| 16 | Shaken , we stood at opposite sides of the room , in separate silences . |
| 17 | We stood at opposite sides of the room and scored points when one of us failed to keep the ball moving after the permitted single bounce . |
| 18 | As we stood beneath white-washed trees , Will spoke admiringly of his study-bird . |
| 19 | They stand for modern , improved , and mechanised farming as opposed to indigenous and backward farming , and so on . |
| 20 | There is a loose connection between men , forest and spirits , and they stand in collective opposition to the world of women which centres on the villages and the clearings . |
| 21 | They stand in sharp contrast to the more open , and accessible British model . |
| 22 | Such pairs of things are like a causal circumstance and its effect in that they stand in fundamental nomic or necessary connection ( 1.3 ) , which is to say some connection stated by an independent nomic conditional statement . |
| 23 | In fact they stood for National War Museum . |
| 24 | They stood with rigid tension listening to the brooding silence of the jungle all around them . |
| 25 | They walked slowly up the church path , past the old graves , those so seared by time and weather that they stood as grey shapes furred with lichen , names and dates no longer legible , uniform in obscurity . |
| 26 | Now , bearded to bandaged face , they stood in utter stillness . |
| 27 | When those brief moments of ecstasy were over and the everyday world took precedence again , they stood in shocked silence while Bert Rafferty carried Celia up the cliff . |
| 28 | They stood in deep shadow by the wall of the bridge . |
| 29 | Above the rush and scurry of the traffic they stood in monumental stillness , each leaf precisely outlined against the deep blue sky . |
| 30 | They stood in fascinated awe as the immense panelled surface slid past . |