Example sentences of "[pers pn] stood at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I stood at the window and looked down into the street . |
| 2 | I stood at the front door of No. 5 , watching Dana straddle his bike , adjust his backpack and wave cheerily to me as he roared off down the road . |
| 3 | I stood at the door and looked up , but the windows were dark ; she had gone to bed . |
| 4 | As a small boy , growing up in Liverpool , I stood at the Pier Head and marvelled at the huge Atlantic liners berthed at the world 's largest floating landing-stage . |
| 5 | I stood at the foot of the bed and watched my grandfather go to sleep . |
| 6 | I stood at the edge of a circle of standing stones , each eight to ten foot high , with a massive central stone which leaned at a perilous angle . |
| 7 | Employing a lounge-lizard gait , he swaggered towards me as I stood at the bar waiting for my Coke . |
| 8 | And then he was pushed roughly on , and suddenly , inexplicably my mind was filled with a vivid picture of Christ looking down at me as I stood at the foot of the cross . |
| 9 | Happiness , I knew , was not something she thought much of as an end : it was as if she had said , I 'm glad you do n't mind being poor , and , although when I replied to her , it was only to tell her about the baby , Thomas , and how he had put on five pounds and had cut his first tooth , I brooded over what I might have said while I stood at the sink or pushed the pram , making great , windy speeches in my mind , venting on my absent aunt the curious , unreasonable anger that seemed to rise up before me like a dark pit , bottomless and frightening . |
| 10 | Images of animals huddled together for warmth , safety and companionship floated into my mind as I stood at the side of this man , watching him examine firearms . |
| 11 | I stood at the front door for a long time being soaked by the rain . |
| 12 | I stood at the bar with the Morning Line , WITCH WHO LIED FOR DR SEX . |
| 13 | I stood at the top of the slope . |
| 14 | In the city , I stood at the window and identified the cars as they breezed by . |
| 15 | I stood at the doorway , waiting . |
| 16 | When I stood at the doorway , hesitating to dash into the pouring rain , I could see that the landscape had moved with the date . |
| 17 | I saw him a few times more after that , in the months that followed , coming slowly up the lane from the station , as Millie and I stood at the gate . |
| 18 | I stood at the front door and it was around my ankles , within five minutes it was around my knees , ’ said Joanne . |
| 19 | She stood at the door and stared . |
| 20 | She stood at the bottom of the bed and reached out her hands to catch his and pull them forward . |
| 21 | She stood at the sink , chopping courgettes and aubergines , when he came in , and did not look up , so he surmised that the mood was bad . |
| 22 | She stood at the altar-steps , uncertain what to do as she watched her daughter try to put her arms round her priestly uncle , prattling all the while in infant Italian . |
| 23 | When he left , we watched from the Met Office windows as she stood at the salute on the edge of the perimeter track , until his aircraft was out of sight . |
| 24 | Now she stood at the gate of Ten-acre Pasture , staring across the hedgetops to the control tower that jutted into the gentle landscape with angular obscenity , begging silently that when she turned the corner he would be there . |
| 25 | She turned up when Laura was married in 1984 and she stood at the back of the church because she did not want to detract from the bride 's big day . |
| 26 | It was after eight-thirty and in a few minutes the family would sit down to eat while she stood at the end of the table , still working . |
| 27 | She stood at the back of the dingy room , the child close by her side , and she listened to the clerk calling out the offences — soliciting was a common phrase , but once he said ‘ Procuring of men ’ — and she noticed that the Justice hardly raised his head : ‘ One pound or one month . |
| 28 | She stood at the drying frame with her box of pegs and her tub of washing . |
| 29 | She stood at the end of Sarah 's bed , all eighteen stone of her . |
| 30 | She stood at the sink , running the tap to get a glass of cold water and he stood behind her . |