Example sentences of "stand on the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This little mill stands on the Washbrook . |
| 2 | And as the ship freed herself from the mule-lines and her screw began to chum up a wake of umber , sludgy water , and she picked up speed towards the marker buoys and the farewell beacon on Flamenco Island , I was sure I could see the seamen still , pointing their cameras back — now with long lenses all — towards the statue of Balboa which stands on the Panama City seafront , with the great man gazing out at the Ocean into which the Poles were now , at long last , sailing . |
| 3 | Earlier plans for a purely commando raid had been abandoned , as mentioned earlier , because St Nazaire stands on the Loire estuary with only one deep-water channel which was covered by coastal batteries in 1942 . |
| 4 | The memorial stands on the Harrington to Lamport road . |
| 5 | The Egyptians are asking for Cleopatra 's Needle , the great granite obelisk of 1500 BC which stands on the Thames embankment just a few yards from the Savoy . |
| 6 | The Rangers midfield player , who used to stand on the Elland Road terraces , fears Howard Wilkinson 's champions could copy Arsenal by going into free-fall after crashing out of Europe . |
| 7 | The ruins of this 900-year-old castle , the first Norman castle in England , stand on the West Hill cliff top commanding panoramic views . |
| 8 | A shipping agent , more likely , standing on the Broompark 's deck checking bills of lading . |
| 9 | Revelation fourteen and lo a lion was standing on the Mount Zion and with him a Hundred and Forty and four thousand which were redeemed from the Earth . |
| 10 | Standing on the Braid Hills , with a fine view over the city , two miles from Princes Street , off A702 , this is a popular resort for Sunday lunches ( best book in advance ) and a pleasant spot to eat on any occasion . |
| 11 | He was district secretary of the ITGWU and had stood on the NILP ticket a number of times before the split of 1949 , when he went over to the Irish Labour Party . |
| 12 | An Inn has stood on the Bridge Street crossroads for many years . |
| 13 | If Kipling had stood on the Kop |
| 14 | Vice-chairman Sydney Moss revealed : ‘ He came here at the age of four , then stood on the Kop when he was old enough . |