Example sentences of "[pers pn] stood [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I stood a starving child before you , |
| 2 | The presence of Capellan directors and Eladeldi police did not seem so oppressively dispiriting when you stood a good chance of killing yourself , if you pushed it . |
| 3 | It seemed to Preston that if you avoided being stabbed to death by terror gangs , you stood an even chance of being burned to death by sudden conflagration , or pushed on to the live line by a psychopath lurking among the rush-hour crowds , or struck down by a heart attack brought on by the extreme rage and frustration of trying to understand a platform announcement . |
| 4 | Behind you stood the tall windows , in fives , and the glimpsed interiors always the colour of watery gravy . |
| 5 | From where she stood the downward slope and the valley below were clearly visible . |
| 6 | He searched the throng with his eyes from where we stood a good twenty paces away out in the station . |
| 7 | We stood a good few minutes in the entrance hall , and a gentleman came through and smiled , and someone said it was Billy Graham , Mr Wogan 's other guest . |
| 8 | He and his fellow escapee had been told that if they could get to Marseilles , then in unoccupied France , they stood a good chance of finding a ship bound for England . |
| 9 | Beside her stood a pleasant-looking , round , grey-haired woman , unsure of what to do , hesitating about whether to hush the weeping figure or let her cry . |
| 10 | Beside her stood a small , red-haired girl , white-faced and dark-eyed . |
| 11 | At either side of her stood a faithful attendant , one being a confidential maid , the other a Miss Drake — an old , mittened companion , hardly younger in appearance than herself — both of whom watched her with eyes of solicitous reverence , and seemed always ready to collapse into quasi-religious curtseys . |
| 12 | Amongst the papers before him stood an empty breakfast cup and an egg-smeared plate , suggesting that his digestion was as robust as his nerve . |
| 13 | An oval mirror , pock-marked and fly-stained , was set in the top of this extravagant and monstrous contraption and next to it stood a hollow elephant 's foot mounted on a wooden base . |
| 14 | It stood a clear 10ft above the other trees , like a flag on top of a fortress , its mushroom structure always pressing for the extra light due to its extra height . |
| 15 | Beyond it stood the young squire who brought him , the smoking tube in his hand , his face stamped with rage and with loathing . |
| 16 | In it stood the small , slight figure of the head verger , his silver hair and babyish complexion at odds with each other , as , indeed , was his black suit of the gentleman 's gentleman variety and his rather springy gymnast 's step . |
| 17 | Behind it stood the international gold standard . |
| 18 | Behind it stood an old-fashioned switchboard and numbered pigeon-holes for the guests ' post . |
| 19 | Underneath it stood an orange box on top of which were two flower pots . |
| 20 | Next to it stood an empty tubular blue clothes rack , a tubular blue chair , a tubular blue AV rig . |
| 21 | He stood a gaunt six foot three in his torn jeans , the checked , woollen shirt open almost to the waist , his long grubby feet in the open sandals looking like dry , brown bones . |
| 22 | What court could agree to keep a defendant behind bars when he stood a fair chance of leaving jail , three years later , an innocent man ? |
| 23 | From where he stood the pungent smell of frying onion was easily detectable . |
| 24 | But in doing so , he stood the traditional ‘ toxic mix ’ theory on its head by claiming that prison order was rendered unstable by young inmates serving short sentences , even suggesting that at Wymott ‘ a more stable inmate population might have been achieved if the predominantly young and short-term population had been diluted with some older men or those with longer to serve ’ ( para 7.09 ) . |
| 25 | Behind them stood the big brothers of the computing world , the Primes , Vax 's and assorted IBM mainframes , more powerful and versatile in their capabilities and developing slow and awkward means of communication and portability with a degree of interactive processing that still left time for coffee and often for a three course meal . |
| 26 | Beside me stood an aged Gibraltarian granny . |
| 27 | Between us stood a fat red candle , whose flame was beginning to drown in a pond of wax , and a purple African violet made of plastic . |