Example sentences of "stand at [num] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everyone stands at one end of the pool , and when it is time to start I swim to the end of the pool and come back . |
| 2 | Ben Nevis stands at one end of the greatest mountain range in the Highlands , buttressing a grand array of ten Munros with altitudes above or near 4000 feet and forming an unbroken high skyline for several miles . |
| 3 | The box stands at one end of a parcel of land upon which there is a complete turnout and associated signals . |
| 4 | Everyone stands at one end of the room with their eggs in front of them on the floor . |
| 5 | Each team stands at one end of the room , in a line , one behind the other , facing the opposite end . |
| 6 | Inflation 's fallen again to a new thirty year low , and now stands at one point two percent , down from one point three percent . |
| 7 | It 's because payments are automatically linked to inflation , which now stands at one point eight per cent . |
| 8 | The church is built close to the edge of the bluff , which falls an overgrown eighty or ninety feet down into the wide bed of the gave or river ; and the view up or downstream is dignified further by the curtain wall of the medieval Tour Monréal , that stands at one corner of the small square in front of the church . |
| 9 | The number of people unemployed has risen for the twenty-second month in a row , the figure now stands at two point six , five million . |
| 10 | The inflation rate has fallen to its lowest in twenty-five years to stand at one point seven per cent . |
| 11 | And something I have not seen anywhere else , though it makes good sense , is that in these mainly narrow streets , the shops have their signs strung out at right-angles across the way so that you can stand at one end and read their names from there , without having to go down to look at them one by one . |
| 12 | Rodney was standing at one end of the table , a turquoise can in his hand . |
| 13 | They had stood at one set all , but Hammond held two service breaks in the third . |
| 14 | Miles stood at one prow , Okawi at another . |
| 15 | A fine tower with stepped windows stood at one end . |
| 16 | A warder stood at one end of the infirmary , standing by a thick metal door . |
| 17 | In nineteen seventy nine the grant for trade union education stood at one point six million . |
| 18 | A disused stone toll house stood at one side of the river , a ruined mill on the other . |
| 19 | Liam Murphy stood at one side of the grave with a tiny white casket in his arms , and on the other side , Kevin O'Neil carried the same sad load . |
| 20 | Miss Honey stood at one side of the room . |
| 21 | The images were still as clear as the rain that had fallen so dispiritedly on the mourners as they stood at one side of the grave while the rector had intoned the fateful words . |