Example sentences of "stood on a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A large wooden statue of the Virgin and Child stood on a stone plinth whilst around the walls were raised tombs , simple and square , lacking any effigy or ornamentation . |
| 2 | I nearly stood on a grouse once , when we were walking up I was n't walking with you , it was when we were with the Footpath Society . |
| 3 | There was an owl whose names was Blanche perch bravely on a narrow branch when she asked if she could fly , the others said into the sky high , high , high , so one fine day they came out and stood on a branch all big and stout , she jumped , she thought that she could fly |
| 4 | The Headmaster stood on a stool to conduct the lifting and Mr Slipper waited eagerly , shinier than ever . |
| 5 | At times my sleepy little daughter was brought down from the nursery and stood on a stool while John draped pieces of material on her and showed me how he wanted the costume move and flow , and so help to illustrate what he wanted to express and convey to an audience . |
| 6 | And each four-unit block stood on a quarter-acre plot , allowing each family a seventy-five-by-thirty-foot vegetable patch . |
| 7 | Later the royal couple stood on a hillside overlooking the border with communist North Korea and surveyed the land on which British and Chinese troops engaged in fierce combat more than 40 years ago . |
| 8 | The growing Country opposition to William 's ministry in the Scottish Parliament consisted mainly of men who stood on a Revolution and Presbyterian foot , but whose exclusion from office exacerbated their disillusionment and allowed them to indulge their nationalist sentiments . |
| 9 | It is a figure of Athena ( fig. 73 ) , headless , which stood on a column inscribed with the names of Angelitos as dedicator and Euenor as maker . |
| 10 | Two typewriters stood on a side-table . |
| 11 | The someone , who was , of course , Dr Neil , struck a Swan Vesta to light the oil-lamp which always stood on a side-table where he usually kept the book which he was currently reading . |
| 12 | Léonie stood on a boulder to get a good view . |
| 13 | I left the wheelbarrow , stood on a bulge of rock and shielded my eyes . |
| 14 | She took an instinctive step back and brushed against a small marble horse that stood on a pedestal . |
| 15 | Rollers for the pump flat-rods or chains , and the winding chain , were positioned at intervals up the incline to a pivot and a wheel at the tunnel mouth , then along the tunnel to a balance-bob which stood on a platform cut out specially , and the winding chain over a heavy sheaved wheel above the shaft . |
| 16 | She stood on a floor of trodden earth . |
| 17 | They stood on a tin dais enamelled red . |
| 18 | Ross slowly withdrew his arm from about her shoulders , a muscle beating tightly in his jaw as he rose to his feet and walked across the room to where some bottles and cut-glass decanters stood on a tray . |
| 19 | A white ceramic coffee-pot and cups stood on a tray on a nearby table . |
| 20 | It stood on a corner , at the end of a terrace of four which had , Sybil explained as she put her key in the front door , replaced a large Victorian dwelling . |
| 21 | We stood on a bridge , looked down — and saw our first dipper of the day . |
| 22 | This peculiarly unpleasant mixture combined to become a mudflow , which over-ran everything in its path ; in particular a large sugar processing plant , the Usine Guerin , which stood on a tongue of flat land in the valley of the Riviere Blanche , surrounded by sugar-cane plantations . |
| 23 | An empty bottle of wine and a bottle half full of mineral water stood on a cabinet . |
| 24 | The bridal couple again stood on a poruva , this time with their heads covered . |
| 25 | Paisley stood on a picket line outside the Ballylumford power station in Larne and tried to persuade workers not to go in . |
| 26 | And there also , in an earlier picture , was the brown bear fur coat : Dorothy , flanked by Helen and Edward as children , stood on a pavement against a background of London taxis and buses — they must have been caught by a street photographer on one of those pantomime or ballet outings . |
| 27 | It stood on a piece of waste ground beyond which tinkers left their carts during the day , when they were begging or doing casual work . |
| 28 | ‘ My private life , ’ she stood on a matter of principle to declare tartly , ‘ has nothing whatsoever to do with my work ! ’ |
| 29 | She stood on a chair and I used to have to draw the lines round the back of her legs with a pencil . |
| 30 | Ellie stood on a chair at the sink to wash up , while Patsy waited patiently beside her on the floor , taking the plates carefully from her and drying them . |