Example sentences of "[pers pn] stood before [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I stood before the mirror in the hallway , fixing my tie , whistling . |
| 2 | But now I had come face to face with her four days after she stood before the House of Commons and declared that there were too many hospital beds in London , and that as a result , St Bartholomew 's Hospital , along with numerous others great and small , would have to close , merge or become emasculated . |
| 3 | Nuadu 's eyes were on her and , as she stood before the giant rotating wheels , she saw amusement in them . |
| 4 | She stood before the mirror in full brothel gear . |
| 5 | In the branch of the Banco dell'Annunziazione a girl , whose face was a mask of disappointment nobly borne and from whose carmined lips dangled a cigarette miraculously balancing a tube of ash , clattered calculations as she stood before an upright typewriter and , in less time than she had expected , Molly was in possession of a mound of hundred thousand lire notes . |
| 6 | They stood before the dressing table for a while , looking at it and discussing it , apparently , but eventually just turned it round so that it faced the wrong way , rather than turn it upside down . |
| 7 | The crimson rope-lights still held him , so that he was forced to go on down the slope until they stood before the terrible dwelling place of the necromancer . |
| 8 | In order to appreciate some of the present problems and the need for a reform , it is necessary to examine the pattern of local government as it stood before the 1972 act . |
| 9 | On his way to mop up the bathroom he stood before a mirror admiring his Egyptian slimness of hip . |
| 10 | There he stood before the official inquiry in his crisp , bemedalled marine uniform , his voice breaking with emotion as he lectured the assembled politicians on what was in the nation 's interests as if he himself had just invented patriotism . |
| 11 | It is said that he stood before the altar and for a moment the Blade called to him . |
| 12 | Pulling himself up from the floor he stood before the dying fire , his short fat legs and large stomach making Michael feel sick inside . |
| 13 | She looked at him now , a pathetic and solitary figure almost like a small boy as he stood before the man who had always dominated and manipulated him ; certainly , there was an air of obedient subservience as he fidgeted uncomfortably , his dark brown hair falling lankly over his forehead and vivid brown eyes large with sadness . |
| 14 | For a moment he stood before the mirror , staring into it . |
| 15 | He was waiting for a couple of soluble aspirin to break up in a glass of water as he stood before the opened mirror-cabinet . |
| 16 | For him the high point of the ceremony was when he stood before the empty but impressive tomb of Cyrus the Great and addressed it grandiloquently in his flat , featureless voice . |
| 17 | He stood before the rusty , blood-stained block , his face covered by a black hood as he leaned on a great two-edged axe . |