Example sentences of "stand [prep] one [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He entered the terminal building , then returned to stand with one hand on his haunch , the other sheltering his eyes to the right , then the left , where Delia Sutherland was sitting on her suitcase , unaccountably invisible to him . |
| 2 | Oh you , Dinda you 've got to stand in one place . |
| 3 | bu and when you it you have to stand in one place going like that and being , and if you touch anybody else and do that and try and get all the people . |
| 4 | Without taking hold of me , she forced me to stand in one spot of my own will , while she whipped me on all sides . |
| 5 | Simply nervous trainers tend to stand in one spot , feeted feet rooted like a tree to the ground . |
| 6 | right the royal personage stands to one side and smiles so you know we could could come in for this . |
| 7 | The Mamur Zapt stands on one side of you , the Man on the other . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'm — I 'm sorry , ’ Chesarynth said automatically , trying to look as though it were normal to stand on one leg with her skirt round her knees . |
| 9 | The Chinese believe that to stand on one leg while kicking with the other unbalances the practitioner and places him at a disadvantage . |
| 10 | The Muslims believe that the spot marks Adam 's punishment for disobedience and that here he was made to stand on one foot for a very long time . |
| 11 | When I returned to the palace with my boxes , I was able to stand on one box on one side of the wall and step on to the other box on the other side . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The box stands at one end of a parcel of land upon which there is a complete turnout and associated signals . |
| 15 | Everyone stands at one end of the room with their eggs in front of them on the floor . |
| 16 | Each team stands at one end of the room , in a line , one behind the other , facing the opposite end . |
| 17 | Inflation 's fallen again to a new thirty year low , and now stands at one point two percent , down from one point three percent . |
| 18 | It 's because payments are automatically linked to inflation , which now stands at one point eight per cent . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The inflation rate has fallen to its lowest in twenty-five years to stand at one point seven per cent . |
| 21 | You can prove this for yourself : stand with one leg off the ground so that you are balanced on one leg , and then just close your eyes . |
| 22 | Stand on one leg with hands on hips , and repeat 1 . |
| 23 | Stand on one leg and bring your other knee up to your chest and hold it there for ten seconds . |
| 24 | Turning kick exercise 1 : stand on one leg and raise the knee into a hurdling position . |
| 25 | The women stand on one side , in straw hats , skirts and parasols . |
| 26 | Perhaps this happens to us ail as we age : our past lives detach themselves and stand to one side hesitantly , hardly believing the corporeal links to a former self . |
| 27 | Stand to one side when opening |
| 28 | — two letters can stand for one sound ( the letter-pair " sh " stands for a single sound ) , and one letter can stand for a sequence of two sounds ( in our dialect , " o " in the word " no " stands for two sounds in sequence , a vowel first , followed by a " w " sound made with the lips ) ; |
| 29 | When CTCs and grant-maintained schools are merely ancient monuments maintained by English Heritage , The Education Reform Act 1988 will stand in one respect with Magna Carta and the Bill of Rights . |
| 30 | Therefore , use kicks from a distance ; do n't stand on one leg when you are close to the opponent ! |