Example sentences of "stand at [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | President , the whole economic af future of Tyneside stands at this minute in the balance . |
| 3 | It was a ploy of Lord Darlington 's to stand at this shelf studying the spines of the encyclopedias as I came down the staircase , and sometimes , to increase the effect of an accidental meeting , he would actually pull out a volume and pretend to be engrossed as I completed my descent . |
| 4 | Rusticated masonry arches stand at each end of the bridge , which is now used only for farm access . |
| 5 | ‘ Tell me about those three-storey houses that stand at each corner of the crossroads . |
| 6 | Making its debut on the Summerfield stand at this year 's British Music Fair was an attractive new range of acoustic guitars . |
| 7 | and you go and stand at those castle round parts and we went for a walk and there was a football match going on was n't there ? |
| 8 | One useful tip is that , towards the end when there are few chairs left , have two children or adults stand at either end of the room . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | As a constable at Easton explained , ‘ I could stand at that comer there and catch a hundred people breaking some law or other in one shift , no bother . |
| 11 | If there was a second ballot , new candidates could stand at that stage . |
| 12 | Old Lincolnshire folk claim that in the 1920 's one could stand at this point and see no less than sixteen windmills noiselessly at work . |
| 13 | Sara said that she was standing at that window when she noticed the light in the office . |
| 14 | So it was a , a , a firm of about a hundred years standing at that time . |
| 15 | Perhaps he had been standing at that spot , gazing out over the river towards the mountains or maybe with bowed head , grieving for his lover . |
| 16 | Standing at this window of his college he was shot at from Madgalen Bridge |
| 17 | The head of Keats , for example , wildly festooned with metal locks which it had proved impossible to file smooth had flown very erratically indeed , killing only a fat money-lender and a camel standing at some distance from the field of action . |
| 18 | Somebody like me , if I was stood at that table , I mean okay if you 've got kids coming in , but if you get adults coming in , I would n't be able to answer questions , I do n't know enough about the product . |
| 19 | Conical topped tents , or pavilions , for participating knights and their attendants , stood at each end of the arena . |
| 20 | I stood at that window and watched you for at least two minutes ! |
| 21 | She stood at that door waiting |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 ? |
| 24 | There is outside the study today a glass cabinet displaying various of Mr Farraday 's ornaments , but throughout Lord Darlington 's days , there stood at that spot a bookshelf containing many volumes of encyclopedia , including a complete set of the Britannica . |
| 25 | Fand and Liban stood at either side of the door , more stiff and still than ever . |
| 26 | The Mercury article is a fiction inspired by the erroneous belief that the Eleanor Cross stood at this position . |