Example sentences of "stood [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 We stood off the ball in some tackles . ’
2 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 .
3 It stood about a quarter of a mile from the house in a triple circle of beech trees , an isolated building so small and perfect that it looked like an architect 's model precisely set in a fabricated landscape , or an elegant ecclesiastical folly , justifying itself only by its classical purity , as distanced from religion as it was from life .
4 We stood about the living-room heavily armed .
5 The Royal Navy stood between the sanctity of Saturday nights and the rest of the world .
6 For some months this Commando , with their small arms , a few petrol bombs , and an old 4.7 inch gun , stood between the Germans and their possible foothold on the Kent coast near New Romney .
7 Of the spectator , Dooley said he stood between the man and the referee as the teams were leaving the pitch .
8 She stood between the cops and Rubberneck .
9 Many judicial rights were more trouble than they were worth , but , burdensome or trivial , they were nevertheless a foundation of aristocratic influence ; in half the villages and towns as mayor , councillor , or judge , the lord or his representative stood between the subject and his king .
10 It stood between the mountains and the Conway Valley .
11 High bookcases lined the library walls and stood between the windows , each topped with a marble bust .
12 This was more than three times the normal fare , and the astonished Annamese stood between the shafts of his vehicle staring after Joseph in amazement until he and Chuck disappeared inside the palace .
13 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 .
14 The lecturer stood between the table and the wall — the worst possible position .
15 Against the backcloth of conventional Victorian prudery , the writer and publisher Mary Wilson stood as a champion for women 's sexual liberation .
16 For diverse and often disparate groupings , the language of scientificity stood as a metaphor and a referent , which condensed specific anxieties and signified different solutions to different people .
17 He served in the RAF for five years and stood as a candidate in the 1984 Euro elections and in the 1987 general election .
18 This confident 31-year-old financial advisor was a leading Young Conservative and stood as a candidate for Tynebridge in the 1987 election .
19 This city was the ancient Inca capital , and throughout Peru 's colonial period ( 1533-1824 ) it stood as a symbol of regional and ethnic opposition to Spanish rule from Lima .
20 Harry put in 410 League appearances for Crystal Palace and that stood as a record for over 30 years until it was overtaken by Terry Long in the late 1960s .
21 Indeed the 1974 level of output stood as a record until 1988 !
22 The late 1970s ' level of manufacturing investment stood as a record until 1987 .
23 At the end of my final year I stood as a sabbatical officer for the Union .
24 Framed in the doorway Jack stood as a figure of authority , a heroic figure , it was like the return of Odysseus , as Franca said later to Ludens .
25 Here , there was no ambiguity ; no difficulty over marriage or courtship ; no women at all but the camp-followers , or the whores who were for sale , with other merchandise , from the second , vagabond camp that stood as a fringe to the first .
26 as if the children had n't heard her or were not aware of her presence , they all ran back towards the side of the house , and there they stood as a group , staring at the man with the short legs and the girl with hair that looked almost white , walking towards their mother .
27 While other workers have published careful studies showing modest , often transitory , benefits of training for IQ , Heber 's projects stood as a beacon of hope for dramatic and lasting benefits , and also as the defence against those who say that IQ has proved disappointingly hard to budge .
28 Laura would have approved of their aims , which almost a century later , stood as a beacon for her own philosophy ; they were ‘ to protest against the introduction of any fashion in dress that either deforms the body , impedes movement or injures health … and to promote the adoption according to individual taste and convenience of a style of dress based upon considerations of health , comfort and beauty and to deprecate the constant changes of fashion that can not be recommended on any of these grounds . ’
29 Roy Bradford who had been a member of the Executive stood as an Ulster Unionist in East Belfast but without the support of UUUC , and Tom Conaty who was well known as Chairmen of the Central Citizens Defence Committee ( CCDC ) stood as an Independent in West Belfast and identified himself as a Catholic representative .
30 He went on to win the seat , despite the fact that the former MP , Paddy Maxwell , stood as an Independent .
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