Example sentences of "[pers pn] stood [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the end of my final year I stood as a sabbatical officer for the Union . |
| 2 | I stood as the Green Party candidate in May 1988 and 1989 . |
| 3 | I stood over the other side of the road from it and watched . |
| 4 | I stood under the shower . |
| 5 | I stood for a long time in a telephone box just to keep out of the slicing rain . |
| 6 | I stood for a long while looking at Voting Right . |
| 7 | This done , I stood for a moment looking across at the broch islet . |
| 8 | I stood for a moment looking at the mattress on the bed where a knife had been used to open up the sides . |
| 9 | I stood for a long time , staring at the mirror . |
| 10 | Dad Tam : " You promise me you will never tell anybody " til " am deed that I stood for the man who made that statue . " |
| 11 | But our to avoid that situation I left and went to work with which kept me in the Edinburgh branch and within three or four weeks I stood for the local organizer and had not been successful . |
| 12 | When er I stood for the election of the national organizers for the East of Scotland and I was successful there and I left the Edinburgh branch in May nineteen sixty six to start work with the head office in nine May nineteen sixty six . |
| 13 | I stood with a group of officials and other bystanders . |
| 14 | I stood with the breeze flapping at my collar , watching the spin-drift sand , promising that one day I would write about this place . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | I stood on the fringe of the little group for a few moments waiting for a chance to speak to Lovat . |
| 20 | I stood on the deck , watching the two spires of Dun Laoghaire receding into the distance . |
| 21 | As I stood on the walkway , the water level reached above my knees , and I waded along beside the wall in the direction of the lower door and the river . |
| 22 | ‘ When I stood on the first tee in the morning I could hardly see the fairway , ’ said the Atherstone club-mate and friend of Paul Broadhurst , the Ryder Cup player . |
| 23 | ‘ When we pulled out of Jaffa , I stood on the stern and looked out over the old city , ’ he said . |
| 24 | Just over five and a half years later , I stood on the same spot and watched the Israelis drive down the same road to be greeted in precisely the same way by the same Christians on the same balconies . |
| 25 | Recently I stood on the dereliction that is Lindow Moss in Cheshire . |
| 26 | I stood on the winner 's rostrum swathed in the Union Jack , the photographers ' light bulbs flashing , the crowd clapping , cheering , other Union Jacks being waved from side to side . |
| 27 | Certainly she presented me with my medal for the 100 metres and as I stood on the plinth she did not bat an eyelid . |
| 28 | In 1985 I stood on the quayside , shivering in the cold drizzle , to watch Arthur Hutton plant the hedge , closely watched by his grandson Martin , who hopes one day to follow his grandfather in keeping up the custom . |
| 29 | As I stood on the tufted grass , surrounded by natural beauty , I felt as if I 'd come to another world |
| 30 | I stood on the doorstep alone , pressing my lids together , breathing in , breathing out . |