Example sentences of "stand at that [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | If there was a second ballot , new candidates could stand at that stage . |
| 4 | Sara said that she was standing at that window when she noticed the light in the office . |
| 5 | So it was a , a , a firm of about a hundred years standing at that time . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I stood at that window and watched you for at least two minutes ! |
| 9 | She stood at that door waiting |
| 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 ? |
| 12 | 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 . |