Example sentences of "stood the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of last year 's Scabiosa atropurpurea seedlings stood the winter like a biennial , and like the over-wintering tobacco plants , began flowering early . |
| 2 | I stood the bottle on the tiled mantel and continued my chores , rewarding myself with a coffee and a stolen Woodbine in front of the newly-made fire , before fetching the groceries from the corner shop . |
| 3 | I closed the lid , snapping the locks , and stood the case against the wall . |
| 4 | At the end of the garden , in the shed of his own making , stood the fruit of his labour . |
| 5 | Experience gained from previous Merlin stripdowns within FAPS stood the pair in good stead on this one . |
| 6 | There stood the King of Kings and the president , choking and weeping as they tried to praise each other , their wives by their sides . |
| 7 | To our right stood the shell of Combe House , yet another Dales house crumbling into ruin . |
| 8 | At the beginning of every avenue of progress , intellectual or material , stood the Church with the feeble Inquisition as a symbol of Spain 's distance from cultivated Europe . |
| 9 | Although outwardly a man of the Establishment , Bill McEwan Younger had the self-confidence to adopt unorthodox views which stood the test of time . |
| 10 | Although the new cars were of radical body design , they used conventional equipment of proven reliability which stood the test of time . |
| 11 | We want to settle in one school for a good period of time , because we have discovered how important are relationships , with both colleagues and classes , that have been built up and stood the test of time . |
| 12 | Behind the young T'ang stood the rest of the Seven , and at their back the generals . |
| 13 | If she did n't find a safe corner to rest and eat she stood the chance of being caught . |
| 14 | Then I stood the door across the end of the bed , so close that Jimbo 's right , dropping foot , where the muscle was n't holding , had no room to drop . |
| 15 | Then she reclosed the book , stuck it back into the wastebin , stood the wastebin on his desk , and withdrew . |
| 16 | On this spur once stood the stronghold of the viscounts of Béarn from which the town of Pau got its name : from the palisades by which it was protected . |
| 17 | Among these also stood the men of Angus , deserted by Kineth , with Malpedar from Moray to work with their own leaders and the presence of the Moray men to stiffen them . |
| 18 | At the centre of this joyous court life stood the figure of Eleanor , " dominating all around her by that intellectual radiance , that love of literature and fine language which was her hall-mark " . |
| 19 | Roger of Howden seems to suggest that behind Eleanor there stood the figure of a man , her uncle , Ralph de Faye , the seneschal of Poitou . |
| 20 | In the centre of the room stood the figure of a man . |
| 21 | On the hillside below the buildings stood the ruin of an ancient moss-covered stupa , its squat , heavy base chipped and crumbling , the steps cut into the face cracked , broken in places . |
| 22 | In the middle , humping up the roof like an ungainly pillar , stood the death of William Egan at the hands of Terry Place ; at one end , like a bearing wall , was the whole dead Pitt family , and then at the other end there sprouted , surprisingly , as a kind of ante chapel , the death of the student , Malcolm Kincaid . |
| 23 | But against that stood the report of his excellent behaviour over the last month . |
| 24 | Heavy industry produced not so much the industrial region as such as the company town , in which the fate of men and women depended on the fortunes and goodwill of a single master , behind whom stood the force of law and state power , which regarded his authority as necessary and beneficial . |
| 25 | And they had to change because apartheid was at a dead end the people of South Africa were continuing with their struggle the country was ungovernable and there stood the prospect of more sanctions which would bring the noose around the apartheid system . |
| 26 | At the Clan Donald centre in Skye , near whose grounds stood the house in which the pair stayed , some relevant legalistic correspondence between the two may be seen . |
| 27 | In their eyes the Asiatic was a menace to British livelihoods , for behind him stood the reality of the unscrupulous shipowner , of whom anything , however disreputable , could be believed . |