Example sentences of "stand [adv] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pa has given special permission for the godparents and me to stand inside at the Jonah window , while he does the immersion outside . |
| 2 | Its regulated , preventive surveillance features , in practice meant ‘ moving on ’ those civilians who dared to stand idly at the street corner . |
| 3 | Glen Ball , the Neath coach and team manager , is to stand down at the end of the season . |
| 4 | The baptistery stands separately at the south-west corner of the cathedral and was begun in 1196 . |
| 5 | Inside , I was barely able to stand upright at the highest point , for I was head and shoulders taller than my sinister host ; and it did not escape my notice that the roof at its highest point was infested with cobwebs , in the corners of which sat large square spiders . |
| 6 | One per over per batsman is the ration , with a bouncer being defined as a ball passing over the batsman 's shoulder as he stands upright at the crease . |
| 7 | But then I 've got ta meet Emma and she stands up at the top . |
| 8 | It was better to stand out at the beginning than to go in with the expectation that he would soon have to provoke a further crisis by resignation . |
| 9 | There was a healthy balance for nineteen ninety three and this was mainly due to members supporting raffles and the fact that we have not put the show stand off at the British Aquarist Festival for a couple of years . |
| 10 | I 've known loads of people who who are working full time , and they come home Friday and the go out Friday night , stand up at the bar , and drink twenty pints or whatever , ten pints . |
| 11 | At Finsbury Park tube a shambling white man comes up , blood from a cut drying on his brow , trying to beg with dignity and stand up at the same time . |
| 12 | Sometimes in the Cauldhame Arms I stand up at the urinal , but most if it ends up running down my hands or legs . |
| 13 | As Korah , Dathan and Abiram stand defiantly at the doors of their tents with their wives and children , the ground opens beneath them and swallows them up , together with the tents and all their belongings . |
| 14 | They all s they stand there at the door going lighter as if it matters they have to get off the train with a cigarette in their mouth or they 're uncool , some shit like this |
| 15 | John Browne , the Conservative MP for Winchester since 1979 , announced on March 15 , 1990 , that he would stand down at the next general election . |
| 16 | I can hardly stand up at the best of times — which is n't surprising when the only ice I 'm interested in is in my Scotch on the rocks ! |
| 17 | She stepped through the sinister half-circle of rajathuks and saw Morthen , standing uneasily at the entrance of the enclosure . |
| 18 | They were standing together at the very edge of the platform on which the morning room was constructed . |
| 19 | increase in value added tax — but he is standing down at the general election . |
| 20 | Bernice , Francis and Elaine found him there , standing indecisively at the centre of a crossroads of corridors . |
| 21 | The shop bell had tinkled frequently for the past hour , most of the customers having been the ha'penny and penny ones , some of whom were now standing outside at the shop window oohing and aahing at the Christmas goodies displayed there , all entwined with coloured streamers and illuminated by the two gas lamps attached to the side wall of the shop and plopping inside their pretty pink glass globes , while casting a rosy light overall , even over the small faces pressed against the window . |
| 22 | She remembered her mother , standing squarely at the front door , fending off supplicants from the village school Parent-Teacher Association , the Darby and Joan Club , the summer Fete ; Greystones never had jumble . |
| 23 | Celia , standing uncertainly at the door of the nursery while her son was finishing his bottle , had been feeling rather de trop . |
| 24 | The ICC definition of a ‘ fast , short-pitched ball ’ is one which ‘ passes , or would have passed , above the shoulder of the batsman standing upright at the crease ’ . |
| 25 | The more he thought of the two carpet-baggers standing up at the podium , the more intense the pains in his head became . |
| 26 | ‘ Now that it 's over , you 'd expect they 'd start getting things right at last , would n't you ? ’ said Mrs Parvis , standing up at the end of the table to ladle out to her assembled household . |
| 27 | I spent the morning sitting on the floor and the afternoon standing up at the shelf . |
| 28 | Oh oh my hair 's standing up at the back of my neck . |
| 29 | because if he put the bath right in there , I would be standing up at the end of the bath |
| 30 | Marcus , standing now at the foot of the bed , carefully rolled up his sleeves . |