Example sentences of "stood [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Against the backcloth of conventional Victorian prudery , the writer and publisher Mary Wilson stood as a champion for women 's sexual liberation . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He served in the RAF for five years and stood as a candidate in the 1984 Euro elections and in the 1987 general election . |
| 5 | This confident 31-year-old financial advisor was a leading Young Conservative and stood as a candidate for Tynebridge in the 1987 election . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Indeed the 1974 level of output stood as a record until 1988 ! |
| 9 | The late 1970s ' level of manufacturing investment stood as a record until 1987 . |
| 10 | At the end of my final year I stood as a sabbatical officer for the Union . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . ’ |
| 16 | He went on to win the seat , despite the fact that the former MP , Paddy Maxwell , stood as an Independent . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | In the first round of voting on Jan. 12 Zhelev , backed by the ruling Union of Democratic Forces ( UDF ) of which he was a former chairman , had unexpectedly failed to win the necessary overall majority , but obtained 45 per cent as against 30 per cent for Valkanov and 17 per cent for the third-placed Georgi Ganchev , a former fencing champion who stood as an independent , in a field of 22 candidates . |
| 19 | Edouard stood for a while , alone in the gardens . |
| 20 | He stood for a while staring at them . |
| 21 | Without showing any sign of emotion he stood for a while at the head of the bier . |
| 22 | I kept on down to the river and stood for a while to watch the coal-barges slide along the black , shiny water . |
| 23 | It has always been I who have calmed her , though sometimes the Sweeper has come in the evening and stood for a while at her cage and she has calmed in his good presence . |
| 24 | Then he turned and stood for a while gazing out at the Pacific . |
| 25 | Wycliffe passed through the general office with a word to the two girls and stood for a while in the yard while the timber-lorry drove away and the big double doors were closed behind it . |
| 26 | Out in the street he stood for a while , obstructing the pavement . |
| 27 | He stood for a while , watching the pyrotechnic chaos in the yard below , then moved slowly back into the banqueting hall . |
| 28 | He stood for a while in the darkness , hoping that perhaps one of the nuns , Lady Amelia or Dame Agatha , would follow him out , but no one came . |
| 29 | Towards the end of the soirée , Eliot stood for a while by himself in a seemingly abstracted state , and , looking at him across the room , I could not decide whether he was looking in my direction or not . |
| 30 | He stood for a while , looking round about at the quiet dunes and the settling birds . |