Example sentences of "standing there [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'd always had a fantasy about living with an artist and waking up in the morning and him standing there with a canvas . |
| 2 | Instead , he turned round and strolled back to the house , leaving her standing there with a black scowl on her face . |
| 3 | He continues : ‘ I just can not understand a soldier , whether he is a Croat , a Muslim or a Serb , standing there with a flame thrower and burning five children alive . |
| 4 | next thing I remember was being undressed and in bed with Debbie standing there with a boiled egg on a tray , saying mummy were so sorry you 'll never do Christmas again , you 've done it for us for forty years , we shall do it for you now . |
| 5 | I just saw you standing there with a smile on your face . |
| 6 | Then one day I was standing there on a dune top , straining against the pull of the wind in the kite , gripping and hauling and sensing and adjusting and twisting , when one of those twists became like a strangle around Esmerelda 's neck , and the idea was there . |
| 7 | A solitary figure standing there in a trench coat under one of the street lamps ? |
| 8 | One of the Swedish girls was standing there in a flowered nylon dressing-gown . |
| 9 | Well when they 're just standing there in a vest and shorts then there is n't much else to look at is there , really ? |
| 10 | Anyway I 'm standing there like a creep . |
| 11 | ‘ Well I 'm standing there like a creep in this dress with dots on it . |