Example sentences of "she stood [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She stood with closed eyes , listening to the measured footsteps . |
| 2 | She stood with hunched shoulders , a pathetic picture of defeat and despair . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | She stood against laurel-black cherries |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | She stood by detached . |