Example sentences of "which stood [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | There , instead of going straight on towards Alice 's farm , they turned left for The Tiger 's Head , an old pub which stood off the road behind a dusty forecourt . |
| 2 | It was the decaying thatched cottage known as Gilbard 's which stood at the top of Lime Street in Stowey , and which had been occupied until then by a widow called Elizabeth Rendell . |
| 3 | Euston , Tom Eckersley : a reminder of the Doric Arch which stood at the entrance to the BR station . |
| 4 | Dinah learnt the lines , was laced into the vulgar striped dress the part required , which had stains under the arms from the young lady off sick , was heavily rouged and had her eyebrows blackened , and walked on to the boards to the flare of gaslight and the outline of gentlemen in bowler hats they had not troubled to remove , refreshing themselves at the bar which stood at the back of the theatre . |
| 5 | He recalled the ancient baptistery which stood at the east end of the church , where the bodies of the archbishops had lain , and where the trials by ordeal had taken place . |
| 6 | But in this period his salary , although not extravagant , was generous enough : the priest at Longdendale was allocated less than half the Master 's £10 , which stood at the higher level of salaries , ranging from £4 6 0d to £12 6 0d , at this time for such a position . |
| 7 | King Edward of England sat in his purple silken pavilion which stood at the centre of his great camp on the green meadows beneath the formidable mass of Nottingham Castle . |
| 8 | By the way — ’ She opened her bag and drew out the incriminating tape , which she put down on the round antique table which stood at the centre of the hall . |
| 9 | My store of money began to dwindle but at last I found Le Coq d'Or , a dingy , two-storey building which stood at the mouth of one of the runnels on the far side of the Grand Pont opposite the elaborately carved Notre Dame Cathedral . |
| 10 | So he jumped head first into the forty-gallon oil-drum full of rainwater which stood at the rear of the caravan . |
| 11 | The country cottage might become a miniature replica of itself , or an ear of corn , or a vase which stood on the mantelpiece . |
| 12 | South-west of Brussels , in the village of Braine-le-Comte , His Royal Highness the Prince William , Prince of Orange , heir to the throne of the Netherlands , and Duke , Earl , Lord , Stadtholder , Margrave and Count of more towns and provinces than even he could remember , leaned forward in his chair , fixed his gaze at the mirror which stood on the dressing-table and , with exquisite care , squeezed a blackhead on his chin . |
| 13 | They nodded to Maggie Jones and Ida Bromsgrove who were chatting together on the doorstep , and to Grace Crossley , the landlady of the Kings Arms which stood on the corner of Page Street . |
| 14 | He stood at the helm , steering on the tower of St Saviour 's church , which stood on the hilltop between the village of Polruan and the sea . |
| 15 | Brackenshaw Park in Daniel Deronda forms a picturesque background for an archery contest : ‘ The castle , which stood on the highest platform of the clustered hills , was built of a rough-hewn limestone , full of lights and shadows made by the dark dust of lichens and the washings of the rain . ’ |
| 16 | Two geraniums , unpruned and leafy , which stood on the sill , formed a further defence from out-door pryers . |
| 17 | This figure is often confidently stated to copy a famous statue which stood on the Acropolis , the ‘ Sosandra ’ by Kalamis ( which in turn is identified , probably rightly , with an Aphrodite by the same artist on the same site ) . |
| 18 | of Holborough , this was a corrugated iron building lined with timber , which stood on the opposite side of the road and lower down , where now the houses of Browndens Road , begin . |
| 19 | After Sir John had pronounced himself refreshed they made their way up to Thames Street to the Kirtle tavern which stood on the edge of Smithfield , just under the forbidding walls of Newgate Prison . |
| 20 | On the following day , however , at a thatch-roofed tavern which stood on the outskirts of Stokenchurch village , the landlord listened to Corbett 's questions and pursed his lips in self-importance . |
| 21 | When she went downstairs he picked up the photo which stood on the dressing-table , one of his parents at someone else 's wedding . |
| 22 | He was chairman of the gas works , which stood on the edge of the village , and he kept a large stud of racehorses , of which he was passionately fond . |
| 23 | The friar looked at the hour candle which stood on the table behind him . |
| 24 | They rode through the wicket gate of the church , following the pathway which snaked between the trees and overgrown graves to the Norman church which stood on the brow of a small hillock . |
| 25 | One approach is to oppose the peasantry to the rest of the population , most of whom can be loosely described as labourers , and then to identify élites which stood above the mass of the people . |
| 26 | Mildred rushed to the washroom and seized the bucket which stood under the window there to catch drips from the leak in the ceiling . |
| 27 | Where , in one place the track was lined with trees which stood between the carriage and the sun , she became gratefully aware of the cool shade cast by their dense foliage . |
| 28 | BROW FOOT , S. H. Scott , writing in 1905 refers to a gallery on this house , which stood to the South East and below Mr Birkett Forrest 's house , and refers to the gallery being used to store peat . |
| 29 | Then she caught sight of the suitcase which stood by the steps . |
| 30 | The Alsatians , their thick pelts soaked and steaming , had sniffed with some certainty around a little icon of the Virgin which stood by the roadside , sheltered from the rain by a stone arch , but after that they had rambled unhappily this way and that and returned whining to their handlers , who were knee-deep in mud , soaked to the skin and cursing roundly . |