Example sentences of "stood [adj] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He stood straight like an elegant , modern building with his large , black hands gently hanging by his lower body . |
| 2 | When England threatened to produce the magic that dazzled Scotland the back row stood defiant to a man , covering and tackling with fanatical commitment and dedication . |
| 3 | I never thought my father stood much of a chance of survival , whatever I did . |
| 4 | The gendarme stood bewildered for a moment , and then ran into the street , where for some time he could be heard blowing his whistle . |
| 5 | So too , to a lesser extent , do the herbaceous plants of the bush ( 9000 species in Western Australia alone ) , which stood belly-high to a horse when the first Europeans arrived in the late eighteenth century . |
| 6 | She stood still for a long moment that seemed to the others to grow into an age . |
| 7 | He stood still for a moment breathing deeply . |
| 8 | She reached the edge and stood still for a long time , only her skirt fluttering , and the ends of her hair . |
| 9 | The desperate man stood still for a moment , then turned and left her . |
| 10 | For some reason this made her think of Finn , and she stood still for a moment , again waiting cautiously for any twinges of anguish , any signs of unhealed wounds . |
| 11 | She stood still for a moment , breathing the air , gazing round her . |
| 12 | She stood still for a moment and looked up and down the street ; it seemed to shine ; the light the sun had poured onto the packed dirt of the road glowed back pewter under the stars ; there was no longer any moon , it had set earlier that night , and the dimensions of the scene had expanded , creating a vacancy which made Rosa feel her pulse quicken , as if she too were growing , becoming less stubby , less compact , stretching upwards and turning silvery herself like the leaf of an olive when the breeze lifts it and shows its metallic underside . |
| 13 | I came to the end of the bridge , where technically my territory stops , and stood still for a while , thinking , feeling , listening and looking and smelling . |
| 14 | The rocking-horse stood still as a rock , she tipped its back to make it move . |
| 15 | You tossed your opponent for first strike , then the loser just stood still like a lemon with his conker dangling from the string . |
| 16 | Where Nonconformist preachers differed was in their isolation : they stood alone without a liturgy on which to fall back or a priestly vocation which made good preaching a desirable but not essential option . |
| 17 | Hector stood undecided for a moment , his eyes travelling from Theda 's outstretched hand back to the gentleman who was obviously a favourite with him . |
| 18 | Willie stood stunned for a moment for he had never been praised by anyone ever . |
| 19 | It stood open about an inch . |
| 20 | Two great doors stood open in an arched entrance and they came out into a cobbled courtyard . |
| 21 | The two men , Executioner and challenger , stood motionless for a few seconds , each weighing up the opponent he would now face in a fight to the death . |
| 22 | She tried looking out of the window to the hospital 's green lawns and the tall eucalypts that stood motionless against a gloriously blue August sky , but found that looking away seemed too impolite . |
| 23 | He stripped , slowly , and pulled his belt through the loops , then stood naked by a chair , gripping its back . |
| 24 | Striding as quickly as he could whilst avoiding drawing attention to himself , Sergeant Bird covered the hundred and fifty yards that separated them , and stood close behind a sharp-featured elderly lady who had just placed her shopping bag on the pavement next to the telephone box in a proprietary way . |
| 25 | A pair of wheels stood next to a red marker beacon . |
| 26 | The village stood next to a lake . |
| 27 | A man walked into the road and stood next to a shop . |
| 28 | A group of chandlers stood next to a long line of gutted pigs , arguing with their owner about the price of the fat which they would buy to make tallow candles . |
| 29 | He threw down the washing-up mop and stood stock-still for a moment , gripping the edge of the sink . |
| 30 | RECORD-breaker Fenra Wolf , 37 , of Brimington , Derbys , stood barefoot on a bed of nails for 58 seconds while holding 400lbs of cement . |