Example sentences of "[subord] standing " in BNC.
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| 1 | In areas of frequent spills and where standing water may be present , choose a full-drainage mat . |
| 2 | Now , I 'd rather be sitting in a car than standing on a crowded platform , but there was n't much in the way of light relief on the radio . |
| 3 | Nothing could be more boring , to her mind , than standing on the banks of a river for hour after hour , sometimes the entire day , hoping for a fish to take . |
| 4 | Sticking your willy up strange holes had to be riskier than standing over a lavatory basin . |
| 5 | ‘ … we were both pulling in opposite directions , and I felt Brian was siding with his mother rather than standing up for me or remaining in the middle . |
| 6 | In therapy , she realised that making almost any change was better than standing still . |
| 7 | There 's the ‘ I 'm so fat I could be a turkey ’ type of robin ; the ‘ Is n't there more to life than standing on this stupid twig ’ robin ; and , the special favourite , the robin with the ‘ How come the cattle always get to go in the stable ? ’ look . |
| 8 | ‘ It 's better than standing out here getting wet , anyway , ’ said Gurder . |
| 9 | There 's nothing finer than standing on the edge of a Dales hill like this looking down at the landscape strung out below . |
| 10 | What it gets across to the students is that they must deal with women appropriately , hugging them or holding them if it feels natural , rather than standing back and playing doctor . ’ |
| 11 | Dignity right now seemed a bit optimistic , when she could feel her eyes blurring over with tears , but anything was better than standing here at the foot of the stairs , rooted to the spot and subjected mercilessly to his naked inspection of her . |
| 12 | From a spy to a slimy toad and from this to a serpent Satan moves , crawling on his belly in the dust rather than standing upright in a pool of fire . |
| 13 | While the mechanics were setting up the cars , she thought she 'd go outside into one of the empty stands to try to find a breath of wind , anything rather than standing in the back of the pits in the high humidity which made her skin glow . |
| 14 | The book is well designed ; the pages are made of Zerkall mould-made paper which flops languidly open rather than standing to starched attention perpendicular to the open cover . |
| 15 | WHAT 's worse than standing on the ice in the middle of a river when the temperature is below freezing ? |
| 16 | We now see a view of the battlefield : two lions dead , two Masai dead and Tepilit , although standing , severely mauled . |
| 17 | The NDP , although standing a distant third in the federal House of Commmons behind the ruling Progressive Conservative Party ( PCP ) and the Liberals , was now the ruling party in three provinces containing more than 50 per cent of Canada 's 26,000,000 population . |
| 18 | Deities are sometimes shown with sword , spear , or shield ; sometimes the objects appear alone , as if standing in for an absent deity . |
| 19 | It was approached by a shallow flight of steps on all sides , as if standing on a plinth . |
| 20 | I ask them to form a circle , as if standing around the hole , and close their eyes . |
| 21 | Yeah , cos standing about waiting for buses is not fun . |
| 22 | Mr Allen was tactless enough to offer his opinion while standing beside Mr Dinkins . |
| 23 | He scored 218 runs , won the Man of the Match award and caught Imran while standing in as the understudy wicketkeeper for Kiran More . |
| 24 | Punctuated by interjections from Mark , Clem told the story of how Mark had fallen into a barrel of high viscosity oil while standing on the lid to get at another barrel with his hand pump . |
| 25 | Rumour has it that Stevo ( below ) signed some of his first acts , including Soft Cell , while standing on his head . |
| 26 | Noël Coward was inspired to write the song ‘ London Pride ’ while standing on the platform of a London station on the morning after a particularly bad blitz and seeing Londoners going about their business ‘ gay and determined and wholly admirable ’ . |
| 27 | Racing Club is another version of face-to-face love-making while standing up . |
| 28 | The fact we were chatting about a programme on Radio 4 while standing on a dainty platform hundreds of feet tall seemed not to bother him . |
| 29 | The exercise can be done regularly without flow at any time that you are sitting — in the car , in the office — or while standing . |
| 30 | Bees learn colour only in the final three seconds as they land : the colour visible to the bee before the landing sequence , the colours it sees while standing on the flower to feed and while circling the blossom before flying off , simply never register . |