Example sentences of "[pers pn] stood a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not the young Francis either , in whom I stood a better hope of experiencing the odd happy memory , but Francis as I 'd last experienced him with the tang of his Lucky Strikes , last night 's whisky and dejection all togged up as joie de vivre . |
| 2 | I stood a few yards away from him , my sandalled feet feeling the mossy lawn underneath , — and then he opened his eyes . |
| 3 | If I stood a starving child before you , |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | She stood a better chance , she thought , upon her own : though a chance of what she would not have liked to have said . |
| 7 | And if he and his secretary had returned , she felt she stood a better chance of establishing an interview by calling in person rather than trying to do so over the phone . |
| 8 | He searched the throng with his eyes from where we stood a good twenty paces away out in the station . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | They stood a little way back from the others as though unsure of their right to be there at all , and they were in bizarre contrast to the rest of the mourners . |
| 12 | As long as new measures of social policy in these areas could be presented as solutions to an inner city problem they stood a greater chance of popular acceptance than if they were seen as no more than further attempts to rid the nation of the welfare state legacy of the post-war era and the dependency mentality that went along with it . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Beside her stood a small , red-haired girl , white-faced and dark-eyed . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | At that time , it stood a little way out of the village of Wellingham , surrounded by fields , but the village had caught up with it and now it was the last house in the high street , painted white , double-fronted with an imposing pillared porch and pedimented doorway ; Its big black front door was decorated with a lion 's head knocker and a brass letter-box . |
| 19 | It stood a few feet above the nodding , windy heather and was open and grassy at the top . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Behind it stood an old-fashioned switchboard and numbered pigeon-holes for the guests ' post . |
| 22 | Underneath it stood an orange box on top of which were two flower pots . |
| 23 | Next to it stood an empty tubular blue clothes rack , a tubular blue chair , a tubular blue AV rig . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 ? |
| 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 . |