Example sentences of "[pers pn] stood [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She stood with closed eyes , listening to the measured footsteps . |
| 2 | She stood with hunched shoulders , a pathetic picture of defeat and despair . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | She stood against laurel-black cherries |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | She stood by detached . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Shaken , we stood at opposite sides of the room , in separate silences . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | As we stood beneath white-washed trees , Will spoke admiringly of his study-bird . |
| 13 | In fact they stood for National War Museum . |
| 14 | They stood with rigid tension listening to the brooding silence of the jungle all around them . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Now , bearded to bandaged face , they stood in utter stillness . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | They stood in deep shadow by the wall of the bridge . |
| 19 | Above the rush and scurry of the traffic they stood in monumental stillness , each leaf precisely outlined against the deep blue sky . |
| 20 | They stood in fascinated awe as the immense panelled surface slid past . |
| 21 | The club-mosses and horsetails were still , for the most part , swamp-dwellers and there they stood in dense ranks , 30 metres tall , some with woody trunks two metres in diameter . |
| 22 | They stood like god-shaped statues among the small , intelligent females . |
| 23 | The edge of the crater was marked with huge splinters of stone torn up from the bedrock under the sands ; they stood like broken teeth around the scene , pointing at the sky or fallen slanted over . |
| 24 | The project involved an in-depth analysis of British Steel 's operating units to examine how they stood against international competition . |
| 25 | It had limited access , it had planning permission for only 11,000 sq.ft. , and it stood on ancient water ponds that covered almost half the site . |
| 26 | An infallible belief would be justified but would not derive its justification from any relation in which it stood to other beliefs ; it would not need any support from elsewhere . |
| 27 | It stood at right angles to the road , and rather nearer it than most of the larger houses which stood back in their well-kept gardens . |
| 28 | He stood for damaged Danu ; he got your sympathy . |
| 29 | Mr Kinnock looked uncomfortable when Alec Dunn , a 20-year-old first-time voter , asked where he stood on proportional representation . |
| 30 | His steel-grey hair was neatly combed , and he stood with great pride acknowledging the cheers of the onlookers . |