Example sentences of "stood [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Or rather ’ — he stood with one hand in his blazer pocket , squinting only a little — ‘ the guest of Mr Kettering . ’ |
| 32 | His steel-grey hair was neatly combed , and he stood with great pride acknowledging the cheers of the onlookers . |
| 33 | They stood with rigid tension listening to the brooding silence of the jungle all around them . |
| 34 | Noreen still stood with bowed head . |
| 35 | It stood under some beech trees , between a row of cottages and a battered church . |
| 36 | Wearing open-neck , light blue-striped shirts , the pair stood alongside each other in the dock . |
| 37 | Wearing open-neck light blue-striped shirts , the pair stood alongside each other in the dock . |
| 38 | To either side old farmhouses and new villas stood in uneasy proximity . |
| 39 | My informants stood in great awe of the Sultan , known as the Amoita , who ruled Aussa , and insisted that he hated all Europeans . |
| 40 | Riven forgot why he had come , and stood in grudging admiration for their speed and sureness . |
| 41 | Art , liked art very much , reading , still a good hobby of mine , er arithmetic , fairly good , stood in good stead to this day that one , do n't even need a what-do-you-call-it , tape recorder , but I have one . |
| 42 | The bottle of detergent stood in reproachful isolation at one end of the table . |
| 43 | Sun-kings and Moon-queens stood in stately adoration of each other or , in other guises , warred . |
| 44 | Anne stood in stunned silence as tears filled Maureen 's eyes and she dashed them away . |
| 45 | When those brief moments of ecstasy were over and the everyday world took precedence again , they stood in shocked silence while Bert Rafferty carried Celia up the cliff . |
| 46 | 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 . |
| 47 | Now , bearded to bandaged face , they stood in utter stillness . |
| 48 | And stood in deep water as on a throne |
| 49 | They stood in deep shadow by the wall of the bridge . |
| 50 | Captors and captives stood in dumb impatience for the roll-call to be finished . |
| 51 | The opulence of the Presidential Palace , the well-to-do middle class houses , stood in stark contrast against the abject poverty — intellectual as well as physical — of the barefoot peasantry . |
| 52 | The teacher queried one boy 's answer , he stood in rapt recalculation , you could almost hear his brain working . |
| 53 | It was just coming up to three o'clock when the taxi dropped them off in the old town square and Ven guided her to the old town hall where , with barely a minute to go before the run-through of the astronomical clock , Fabia stood in rapt attention . |
| 54 | The nomes stood in absolute silence . |
| 55 | It is small wonder that Keynesians stood in perplexed amazement when they tried to relate the new classical theory of unemployment to the unemployment rates which were being experienced in the late 1970s . |
| 56 | As Vivian Salmon has shown , awkwardness in pronunciation , ‘ where the — st suffix of the Thou- form stood in close proximity to consonants whose assimilation was difficult , or would have resulted in syntactic ambiguity ’ , led to a preference for the You form or for one retaining Thou but adding an unstressed do , as in ‘ What didst thou lose ? ’ or ‘ It was ourself thou didst abuse ’ . |
| 57 | His use of location shooting , natural lighting , and lay actors stood in total contrast to the older expressionist cinema . |
| 58 | Each man stood in total silence at the end of his bed in the at-ease position , his locker open behind him . |
| 59 | As in the case of popular health work , these professionals were struck by the absence of applied research and extension services , particularly for poor farmers who stood in greatest need of such assistance . |
| 60 | The French stood in sharp contrast to all this ; their main energies were directed at expansion in Europe , with the Netherlands marked down as a particularly attractive target , but they were so rich , so dynamic , and so confident in the second half of the seventeenth century that they were quite willing — as asserted in the motto of their great king , Louis XIV , nec pluribus impar — to fight several enemies at once . |