Example sentences of "they stood " in BNC.
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| 1 | That the bishops were affected by the opposition of the medical profession to the scheme — clearly they stood to lose money and independence if such a scheme were implemented — seems likely . |
| 2 | And the bar on which they stood had evolved from a simple counter or hatch to something approaching the form we know today : in his Encyclopaedia of Cottage , Farm and Villa Architecture of 1833 J C Loudon described the ideal bar ( the place ‘ from which all orders are issued ’ ) as being ‘ of some size ’ , with ‘ commanding views of the front entrance hall and back entrance ’ . |
| 3 | They stood there in a frightened cluster . |
| 4 | As they stood there looking east they were able to discern a small buzzing winged shape heading towards them over the immense Capability Brown park . |
| 5 | They stood around her in the stuffy room , aghast . |
| 6 | The two young McLaggans were taunting and prodding at a trio of hostages , Thomson the constable , Bisset the minister , and the old soldier Major Alexander McGlashan of Eastertyre ; they stood in a huddle with their eyes staring , while young McCulloch staggered up to them and shoved stalks of bracken into their hair . |
| 7 | They remembered this two hours later as they stood on the meadow in front of the big house at Fortingall , waiting for a crowd to gather . |
| 8 | Did they try to go for passing shots as they stood two feet behind the baseline ? |
| 9 | Villa began the afternoon where they finished in May , one rung above the relegation places , although this time last year they stood fifth in the First Division . |
| 10 | ‘ NORIEGA just exploded and the conspirators died where they stood . ’ |
| 11 | Green candidates won 7 per cent where they stood . |
| 12 | It fielded four candidates who averaged just under 10 per cent where they stood . |
| 13 | They stood to the side as I entered then the woman showed me to a chair as the man brought two glasses and placed them on the table in front of me , then said very seriously , ‘ This is my wife . |
| 14 | They stood in the middle of the road as we approached cautiously . |
| 15 | No doubt Temple remembered that once they stood on the same platform at Cambridge . |
| 16 | They stood up , laughed and fooled around . |
| 17 | Most are known by name and some are greeted as if they stood before us . |
| 18 | Afterwards they stood up slowly , not wanting to part from such intimacy , but beginning to feel chilly now the warmth of the story was over . |
| 19 | The project involved an in-depth analysis of British Steel 's operating units to examine how they stood against international competition . |
| 20 | They stood watching dumbly in horrible fascination after it shattered . |
| 21 | They stood talking a long time at the crossroads before separating but he did n't offer to see her over the weekend . |
| 22 | They stood together , separately , and then in groups for photos that one of Rose 's sisters took , headstones and evergreens rising out of the background of thick laurel . |
| 23 | They stood chatting across the gate for what seemed an age until Moran faced the house with the two envelopes tantalizingly held out . |
| 24 | They stood by their demands for back-dated bonus payments . |
| 25 | Lack of an alternative summer team sport protected cricket between the wars and it benefited from a brief post-1945 resurgence in numbers , but then numbers fell so dramatically that by 1965 they stood at about a third of the post-1945 years . |
| 26 | They stood under the willow trees , looking at the river . |
| 27 | Tappersdorf was a few stops along the line — countrified and still keeping a rural quietness : poplars masked a factory , behind pre-war houses with steeply pitched roofs fields of sprouts stretched away , the sprouts looking oddly sentient as they stood in their patient , frosty queues , waiting to be picked . |
| 28 | ‘ One bus , ’ she said , as they stood on Lenin Allee . |
| 29 | They stood in the dark and listened . |
| 30 | Chief among them , and born of the group 's increasing feeling that they stood far something , embattled against a hostile world , was their tendency not only to see merit where none existed ( in the poetry of Fox , for example ) , but actually to think that belonging to the group — which began at around this period to be known as the Inklings — was in itself a sort of merit . |