Example sentences of "stood like a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She said , ‘ Well , if there 's nothing else for it ’ , and began to fold and manipulate the wedding dress while I stood like a doll , cold and alien and powerless . |
| 2 | But she could sense when he was getting her ready for a match and stood like a statue , even dropping her head for him to clip her mane . |
| 3 | Kenne stood like a statue , Rodin 's Old Cowhand Blowing Brains Out . |
| 4 | There was Blind Man 's Buff , and a thing called Find the Penny , in which he himself stood like a statue in the centre of the sitting-room while the boy searched him all over , rifling through his pockets for a hidden coin . |
| 5 | On one side of her , Antoinette stood like a statue . |
| 6 | He stood like a man turned into a pillar of salt , his mouth open , his eyes distraught . |
| 7 | Outside on the footpath he stood like a stone reading the letter . |
| 8 | An old rocking chair , where Jake had always sat , stood like a cliff . |
| 9 | He gazed across a sea of Union Jacks , stood like a guardsman for the national anthem and admitted : ‘ This is a fantastic day for me . |
| 10 | The memory seemed to grow strongly into life , much more real than the present moment ; the glossy cream-coloured cooker stood like a house , black knobs winking like eyes , and the big brown table was a house , roofed over and four-square . |
| 11 | Philip Snowden , who had been a harder-line pacifist during the war than the more pragmatic Macdonald , was now Labour 's Chancellor , and he stood like a rock against all attempts to introduce new economic thinking . |
| 12 | But he stood like a rock , his burning eyes fixed . |
| 13 | It stood like a slice of stale chocolate cake , marooned in a tar ox-bow , that had become a cul-de-sac when the main thoroughfare ploughed another course . |
| 14 | She stood like a dummy as her mother gave the last twitches to her wedding dress , trying to ignore the excitement that buzzed through the small house . |
| 15 | The young boy still stood like a soldier , holding the reins of the horses , his eyes looking eagerly at the piles of steaming dung obligingly dropped by both Philomel and Cranston 's mount . |