Example sentences of "[pers pn] stand [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cooking procedures : most of the meals do not need cooking , just add hot water and leave them to stand for a few minutes . |
| 2 | Heat the frankfurters by leaving them to stand in a pan of water that has just boiled for about 5 minutes . |
| 3 | Fixing the window leather to the broom , I stand on a bar stool on top of Kenneth 's desk , and proceed with caution . |
| 4 | Past more bushes now , I stand for a moment on the edge of a sacred area , which I share with the rabbits for which it is home . |
| 5 | When it is my turn to use the phone , I stand for a minute with two ten pence coins in my hand . |
| 6 | ‘ I stand in a British book shop with my mouth agape . |
| 7 | I stand in a light mist of rain . |
| 8 | I stand in a five-pointed star position in the middle of the room while the doghandler runs his hands along my limbs . |
| 9 | and hold the furniture in heavy seas — while I stand like a chestnut tree |
| 10 | My friends are Liverpool fans and they say they can get me tickets for the KOP , but no way am I standing with a bunch of idiots . |
| 11 | At the end of my final year I stood as a sabbatical officer for the Union . |
| 12 | I stood for a long time in a telephone box just to keep out of the slicing rain . |
| 13 | I stood for a long while looking at Voting Right . |
| 14 | This done , I stood for a moment looking across at the broch islet . |
| 15 | I stood for a moment looking at the mattress on the bed where a knife had been used to open up the sides . |
| 16 | I stood for a long time , staring at the mirror . |
| 17 | I stood with a group of officials and other bystanders . |
| 18 | At an election rally in the Wembley Conference Centre in 1983 , I stood on a nail in my training shoes and it went nearly four centimetres into my foot . |
| 19 | If I stood on a street corner somewhere , someone could slip me a small packet in exchange for a fiver and in a few hours I 'd be slumped on the floor of a public toilet : a Drug Statistic . |
| 20 | I could hear the sound of rent cloth in my head , but I stood on a wooden chair while Lili pinned the seams closer , standing quietly like a broken horse to be saddled and bridled . |
| 21 | I would send it swooping over and under hers , or dive it down to the sands while I stood on a dune cliff , pulling the kite down to nick tall towers of sand I 'd built , then pulling up again , the kite trailing a spray of sand through the air from the collapsing tower . |
| 22 | I stood amid a gaggle of laughing students in frozen silence , and read the list over and over again . |
| 23 | She said , ‘ Well , if there 's nothing else for it ’ , and began to fold and manipulate the wedding dress while I stood like a doll , cold and alien and powerless . |
| 24 | Mr and Mrs Smith , the benign proprietors , were always good to me , giving me a lolly or a ‘ black jack ’ every time I shopped there , and I was looking forward to the treat as I stood behind a small queue masking the counter . |
| 25 | On Monday morning , I stood in a queue at the Diamond , and waited for the Dublin coach . |
| 26 | I stood in a short sling and laybacked over the bulge on a jammed stone into a smooth scoop . |
| 27 | I stood in a white wilderness , and perceived that to gather wood for burning in such conditions was not easy . |
| 28 | The index-linked gilts on the market have maturities of up to 2024 and most of them stand at a substantial premium to their par value . |
| 29 | She stands for a long moment . |
| 30 | If you are to be awkward then my mother will not know where she stands for a good deal of time . ’ |