Example sentences of "she stand [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She stood for several seconds , fingering her camera , staring up at the trees , glancing down the path and listening for the sound of trampling in the undergrowth that would herald Fernand 's return to his task . |
| 2 | She stood for several moments in front of the altar before turning away and walking back towards the door . |
| 3 | And , as soon as she had paid the driver and he had gone on his way she stood for some moments , looking at Ven 's house , photographing it in her mind 's eye because she knew — she would never come this way again . |
| 4 | She stood to one side and observed this pathetic self-deluding fifty-two-year-old in a state of romantic yearning and sexual excitation . |
| 5 | She stood to one side as the woman got up and , casting the strait-jacket aside , went across to the cot , bending down over it to lift and cradle the child . |
| 6 | She stood about four feet away from him in her ungainly dressing gown . |
| 7 | She stood at that door waiting |
| 8 | She stood with closed eyes , listening to the measured footsteps . |
| 9 | For she knew where she stood with that family . |
| 10 | She stood with hunched shoulders , a pathetic picture of defeat and despair . |
| 11 | A bit raffish in her carelessness she stood with both feet trampling the heap of clothes until her head emerged from the muffling of the white , over-ribboned , nightgown . |
| 12 | He set her down on the landing and she stood on one foot , using the wall for support while he opened his living-room door . |
| 13 | For a few minutes she stood in shocked silence ; she had been so sure that the rider from the woods had been herself … but now , realizing that the lover she had seen had been Morthen , she felt angry and upset . |
| 14 | Viola Machin , nevertheless , seemed impervious to it : she stood in bosomy grief , in a becoming coat of umber shade , dabbing her eyes at the pathetic bits of the service ; Desmond , in a heavy black coat , managed only an insurance agent 's decorous grief ; and Hilary looked as if cheerfulness might keep breaking through — which would probably , after all , be what Hilda would have liked most . |
| 15 | She needed someone to talk to about it all , needed a sharer of secrets , an ear to listen to her plans and , above all , someone to agree that she was on the right course , that both shopping expedition and holiday were what she stood in urgent need of . |
| 16 | She stood behind one of them and rested her hand against its curved back . |
| 17 | She stood against laurel-black cherries |
| 18 | He waved to her from the gate , where she stood like any housewife seeing off her man . |
| 19 | If only she could turn her back on the golden Dane whose gaze still ensnared her , lose herself in the masses and find her own way back to the hotel , but she was held where she stood by invisible chains . |
| 20 | She stood by detached . |