Example sentences of "stand like " in BNC.
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| 1 | Beckley stands like a beautiful beached ship on the ancient fen of Otmoor . |
| 2 | Looking eastward , the tall column to the memory of Captain Cook , a local lad , stands like a lighthouse on the purplish blue heights of Easby Moor . |
| 3 | It stands like a phallic exhortation to the newly-weds living around it , but was a hive of industry once , dating possibly from the seventeenth century . |
| 4 | The man stands like a kouros , left foot forward , but differs from one not only in the calf and the arms raised to hold it , but in having a beard and a cloak . |
| 5 | A flat , oblong mound fifteen feet high , about thirty feet wide and forty feet long , it stands like some horrible pimple outside Paris on the road to Saint Denis . |
| 6 | He has multiplied his numbers to plague proportions , caused the extinction of 500 species of animals , ransacked the planet for fuels and now stands like a brutish infant , gloating over this meteoric rise to ascendancy , on the brink of a war to end all wars and of effectively destroying this oasis of life in the solar system . |
| 7 | Today , manual remuage is still widely used , but it is carried out on specially designed wooden boards , hinged together to stand like an inverted ‘ V ’ and known as pupitres ( the French for reading desks ) . |
| 8 | ‘ You should be able to stand like that for a week before the nerve implants get tired . |
| 9 | The grooms had taken away our horses and I did not wish to stand like a servant on the freezing forecourt of the tower . |
| 10 | She had no choice but to stand like a gazelle frozen by the cruel gaze of the lion . |
| 11 | It was indecent , surely , to stand like this , in public , and feel so alive and so excited ? |
| 12 | In Britain , by contrast , ‘ the family , the church , the universities , certain associations of intellectuals , and above all the great professions , stand like rocks against which the waves raised by these forces beat in vain . ’ |
| 13 | We stand like cattle in the sun for a quarter of an hour while the sergeant clears me on his radio . |
| 14 | The haul up the corrie takes you to the first peak , Tom na Gruagaich , from where you must drop down and follow the ridge to the summit of Beinn Alligin , and although that 's where we packed it in , the walk could continue along a stunning ridge to cross the famous horns of Alligin , two pointy crags that stand like gateposts over a terrifying gully . |
| 15 | And you stand like a prisoner |
| 16 | It 's just as hectic in the 400-square mile colony outside , with six million people scurrying among glass and concrete skyscrapers that stand like giant guards above the bay . |
| 17 | and if you stand like that and state |
| 18 | The family , the church , and the universities , certain associations of intellectuals , and above all the great professions , stand like rocks against which the waves raised by these forces beat in vain . |
| 19 | In the day them seem small and far away But at night they crowd closer And stand like frowning giants . |
| 20 | The gigantically helmeted head of some biblical hero would stick out through the roof and stand like an Easter Island monolith among the chimneys and machine-gun emplacements , jewelled eyes blazing with golem life . |
| 21 | And the foreman er we used to play about , lark about , throw orange peel at each other you know , cos it were a boring job you just stand like this and you could more or less close your eyes , you know . |
| 22 | We stand like three old trees in winter , quivering in the gloom . |
| 23 | and hold the furniture in heavy seas — while I stand like a chestnut tree |
| 24 | Eddie used to shoot a lot of duck and could stand like a stone . |
| 25 | And Maisie would stand like some artist 's model , exhibiting her diseases as if they were her only claim on him . |
| 26 | Well do n't stand like a lump of dozy puddin' — take some sticks and tinder and get started . |
| 27 | And all Sean Walsh can do is stand like a stuffed dummy in that hospital and talk about me ! ’ |
| 28 | A film editor friend has just come back from a couple of weeks of yoga , a music producer I know goes to St James , Piccadilly , where they have spiritual talks on a Monday evening , while a designer friend does Chi-Kung , a Chinese movement like Tai-Chi , where you have to ‘ stand like a tree ’ . |
| 29 | ‘ Burns , do n't stand like that ! ’ |
| 30 | He thought for a moment that it might be some kind of game , that their running would cease as suddenly as it had begun , that they 'd stand like statues on the sand , waiting for him to catch up with them . |