Example sentences of "stand [prep] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also , the fresh tap water should be allowed to stand for some time before being offered to the cat , to allow the chemicals to dissipate . |
| 2 | If on the other hand , a stress is applied slowly over a longer period the material flows like a viscous liquid so that the spherical shape is soon lost if left to stand for some time . |
| 3 | There was no Reg Pybus to stand in this time , he too had left for pastures new . |
| 4 | Its magical chain is about 18ft long , allowing the Daemonette to reach the central stairwell and most of the half of the room in which the chair stands at any time ; when the adventurers arrive , the chair will be as shown on the map . |
| 5 | We stand for some time looking at its forty-six Doric columns ( some of them , sadly , fallen ) , appreciating the entasis , the capital formation , the details of the entablature , and so on . |
| 6 | Then I think I read some of my favourite English poems — Hardy , Hopkins , Housman , Blake , Yeats , Edward Thomas , Wilfred Owen , and I think one each by Ted Hughes and Thom Gunn , the only contemporaries I could stand at that time . |
| 7 | So it was a , a , a firm of about a hundred years standing at that time . |
| 8 | We stood for some time watching the ‘ Try your strength ’ machine which was always sited by The Fawcett Statue on Blue Boar Row . |
| 9 | She got up slowly from the table , washed up the mug , and stood for some time absolutely still , staring . |
| 10 | As the law stood at that time local authorities could place limits on the number of pupils in each of its schools , and the Secretary of State said that he had no power to intervene in the Dewsbury case . |
| 11 | erm and the North Koreans were going backwards at a vast rate of knots and in came the Chinese the Chinese army , it stood at that time I think at twenty five million men erm and , and Douglas started losing again , sad really is n't it ? |