Example sentences of "[pers pn] stand on a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fixing the window leather to the broom , I stand on a bar stool on top of Kenneth 's desk , and proceed with caution . |
| 2 | If you stand on a hill in winter when there is a thaw or look down from a motorway , especially in the Midlands , you can hardly miss the pattern of long parallel bands of snow , which are always the last to go from the hollows of the old ridge and furrow . |
| 3 | Most crystals are initially unreachable , but luckily there are several numbered blocks on each level which allow you to build a bridge across the void — if you stand on a block marked ‘ 4 ’ and move off the platform you create a block marked ‘ 3 ’ , the original turning into a standard unmarked jobbie . |
| 4 | There can be the desperate feeling that life has passed them by , and they stand on a precipice , wondering whether to jump into the arms of the first person who offers , or risk endless loneliness. , |
| 5 | They walk on their knees and the front legs like this , so they stand on a knee and then those two legs , and then that knee and these two legs , so they |