Example sentences of "stood in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Penry reached out a long arm and drew her in front of him so that she stood in the shelter of his arms as he held the wheel . |
| 2 | A quarter of a million wooden barrels once stood in the cooperage yard at St. James 's Gate , and each and every one of them was handmade and mended by Guinness 's own coopers . |
| 3 | When you stood in the Jungle , the house seemed dimensions away , as if , in order to get back indoors , you had to alter the way your mind worked , you had to think your way back in . |
| 4 | A vertical puddle , I stood in the lobby , wiped the steam from my glasses with a corner of shirt-tail and realized with a touch of horror , as I hooked my glasses back around my ears , that this was much too grand a place for me . |
| 5 | Thought back to the afternoon , as she stood in the delicatessen , that valued resort of the hard-pressed teacher bent on entertaining . |
| 6 | I stood in the gloaming for the longest 30 seconds of my life while someone looked for a light switch . |
| 7 | Alexandra went over to the long glass on a mahogany frame that stood in the bow window and looked at herself . |
| 8 | I remember thinking as we stood in the baggage hall , this is a bit like the rest of life . |
| 9 | They shook themselves before the fire and stood in the lee of the shelter . |
| 10 | Entranced by the quiet calm , Polly stood in the cockpit gazing out over the stern . |
| 11 | I stood in the alleyway and took a shufty through my police-issue 200 × 6000 macroscopic laser-prism binoculars . |
| 12 | At least four of the men were watching her as she stood in the hall , yawning prettily and obviously bewildered by the disturbance . |
| 13 | Joe , looking dumbly at him as he stood in the hall , saw a man whose youth seemed to have fled from him . |
| 14 | As she stood in the hall , the recollection of the high-pitched voice seemed almost eerie to Mrs Blakey ; so did the fact that she had n't bothered to think about the call-box signal . |
| 15 | He closed the door behind him , and Shelley stood in the hall for a long time , one hand up to her untidy hair where Miguel had ruffled it . |
| 16 | Well my pal and myself we took these two girls and we sat in the middle of the Temperance Hall and he said come on let's sit over on the balcony he says and put up my clothes by the radiator he says it 's been raining he says and it will dry them , so we moved , and exactly from were we moved was where the women got killed , just candelabra dropped on her and er when it happened the fella on the stage the comedian was singing , a hundred years from now you wo n't be here , and I wo n't be here and from the corner of my eye I could see something gradually dropping like one of these candelabras and I thought hello that 's part of the act you know , it was just gradually coming down and all of a sudden , whooosh and the roof came straight in oh and I do n't know sure I 'd I , everything went dark of course I mean it was all in blacked-out all the chairs were loose , so as the folks wended their way towards the exit doors they took the chairs with them , so they politely threw them back in the crowd that stood in the hall so you were dodging chairs as well as trying to get out , where we were , where we were seated the firemen were hacking at the windows thinking that it was a fire because all the dust had gone up in the air and the reflection of the light from the market I suppose and that would give the appearance of smoke , and he was , I said to this fireman I said there 's no fire , he says , he says there is I said there 's no fire in here , anyway we eventually got out but I took these girls back home to and I really , it was , properly unnerved us both and as we came on that old tram we were , we thought you know everything seemed to sort of upset us and when I got far more upset on the Sunday morning when I went to have a look at it , the whole roof had come right in , but there were fifty people got injured you know and about , oh there was one lady killed . |
| 17 | She stood in the gloom , not knowing whether to stay or run away . |
| 18 | He turned to look back at where the doorway to the stairs stood in the gloom . |
| 19 | Underneath that I have another article to which was kicked out sometime later but I have it in here , it says , raid on Gdynia would surprise to Nazis to say refugees in Sweden tell how the non Germans cheered in the streets but the two refugees eye witnesses to the American Bombing Attack on Gdynia , October ninth , reported here that the raid caught the Germans by surprise and that non German workers stood in the streets and cheered amid terrific destruction . |
| 20 | Then when I came near the broken house and stood in the moon shadow I could hear and see nothing . |
| 21 | A form stood in the air fronting me … |
| 22 | About the size of a sixteen pounder , but infinitely lighter — in fact it had no weight at all — it stood in the heavens shining as white as anything that ever came into a television advertisement . |
| 23 | If life was a battle and Charlie Hatton a soldier of fortune he , Wexford , stood in the position of United Nations patrol whose job it was to prevent incursions on the territory of the defenceless . |
| 24 | This time he stood in the centre of the room , plainly unsure as to what had brought him in , his eye searching around for something to fasten on , like someone in mid-speech forgetting what they had to say . |
| 25 | ‘ I stood in the centre circle and waved my blue-and-white scarf . |
| 26 | There was something glorious about her — almost Viking — as she stood in the centre of the room , tall and thin and fierce . |
| 27 | Opposite the window , a coal-burning stove with a chimney stood in the centre of an alcove originally designed to accommodate a massive Victorian cooking range . |
| 28 | Richard Baxter 's Statue which originally stood in the centre of the Bull Ring in Kidderminster . |
| 29 | The cabin stood in the centre . |
| 30 | Many were built as focal points of vistas that have since been obscured by trees ; others stood in the centre of a grove of trees . |