Example sentences of "stand close [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Stay there , ’ he said and got out to stand close to the vehicle . |
| 2 | The tomb is the work of Leone Leoni whose own memorial , his house , stands close to the Duomo ( see page 90 ) . |
| 3 | She stands close to the bed , and for the first time I see her naked : Agnes , the heroine of my novel . |
| 4 | These artists clearly stand close to the Pioneers and are attempting to adapt black-figure to the new movement , with some success : crowded compositions , figures overlapping each other or the borders or cut off by them , vigorous drawing with rather slap dash incision ; but the elaborate fore shortenings and musculature are not much attempted and do not come off very well . |
| 5 | The houses stand close to the road , with some of the oldest of the village 's houses , its two public houses , the post office and the local supermarket all enduring the unremitting throb of the traffic as cars and lorries pound through its narrow confines taking holidaymakers to the coast at the weekend and workers to the British Gas terminal at Easington through the week . |
| 6 | A rough-looking youth with long black unkempt hair and with a muffler about his neck suddenly sprang out from a disused barn standing close beside the lane . |
| 7 | Towards the end of spring , he saw him earlier than usual , and he saw him several times standing close beside the crossing gates on the up side , his face almost pressing between the bars . |
| 8 | The coroner was fretting , hopping from foot to foot , standing close to the wall of the house , well away from the crowds which now thronged the entire thoroughfare of Cheapside . |
| 9 | Make the request standing close to the child ; with a young child get down close to the height of the little one . |
| 10 | From the forbidden dry valley I followed the path to Seaty Hill , a Bronze Age tumulus standing close to the point at which Mastiles Lane joins the main tarmac road and an indication of the deep roots of man 's existence in the Dales . |
| 11 | Miss Davison , who was standing close to the rails a few yards from me , suddenly ducked under the railings as the horses came up . |
| 12 | I showed him the photograph but he declared that the cottage had stood close to the road , nowhere near my site . |
| 13 | They owned a freehold tenement that stood close to the north door of the church and another small tenement in Houlston township , which they normally let to tenants . |
| 14 | This particular mill was at Oxlynch and stood close to the twin sources of the Arlebrook . |
| 15 | This stood close to the confluence of the Cone and Aylesmore Brooks . |
| 16 | Ellwood stood close to the bole of an apple tree and watched the bar . |
| 17 | They stood close to the door , the boy a pace behind the official . |
| 18 | In particular , I studied for some while a figure chalked on a great blackboard which stood close to the bench bearing the sheeted body . |