Example sentences of "standing in the same " in BNC.

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1 Marjorie made a moue at Isobel , who had walked over to the cot in the far comer of the room and was standing in the same apparently relaxed but watchful posture she had displayed downstairs .
2 They were separate , there was space between them , but , like flowers in a vase , they were all standing in the same water .
3 While standing in the same street , joy would notice the creative window displays and smiling faces , hear the laughter and smell the roasting chestnuts on the street corner ; while Gloom would see the traffic , litter and inflated prices , hear the honking horns and smell the exhaust fumes .
4 The poor Christian settlers in the mountains view the Buid as standing in the same relationship to them as they stand to their own patrons .
5 By the time the rope went tight I had been standing in the same spot for nearly an hour and a half .
6 Leon always opened his door after that and , standing in the same spot where I could see him , he would play .
7 In linguistics , a defined class of written marks or letters of the alphabet , standing in the same relationship to a grapheme as a phone does to a segmental phoneme .
8 At a greater distance from the throne are the inferior nobles , also standing in the same posture of profound reverence .
9 Claudia raced for the towel ; he was still standing in the same place and still looking helpless as she dealt briskly with the spill .
10 There is magnetism in romantic gestures that make you forget you 've been standing in the same place for half the day , that there is not a child in the house washed and you never got flowers from your 's truly .
11 This time I made sure my master went first and , whilst he ran down the stairs , I scampered like a rabbit to the top of the tower , forcing back the trap door , standing in the same place that poor Falconer had .
12 Arafat met frequently with Saddam Hussein in Baghdad in the run-up to the expiry of the Jan. 15 deadline , and reaffirmed on Jan. 14 that " Palestine and Iraq are standing in the same trench to regain Arab rights " .
13 My father ignored it , too , standing in the same position as before , head cocked .
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