Example sentences of "stood [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It stood successfully in this very exposed position until December 1755 . |
| 2 | The vote for the neo-Fascist Movimento Sociale Italiano-Destra Nazionale ( MSI-DN ) slipped back from 5.9 per cent in 1987 to 5.4 per cent — giving it 34 seats in the Chamber of Deputies — in spite of the fact that Alessandra Mussolini , the 28-year-old granddaughter of Benito Mussolini , stood successfully as a candidate for the MSI-DN in its Naples stronghold . |
| 3 | He seemed restored ; his crest stood perkily again . |
| 4 | Poor little Rosie stood dripping wet and shivering . |
| 5 | As he stood politely on the doorstep seeing her away , Bunny Chaloner cycled out of the lane which ran alongside the orchard and led to the stables . |
| 6 | Why we feel comfortable with such art , however grotesque , whereas the greatest art always leaves us a little bit uncomfortable , as though the earth we stood on had given a sudden lurch . |
| 7 | Norma Jean Baker , her name , her face , her life altered by exploitation and cosmetic surgery , stood on too little solid ground to remain certain of her own identity behind the camera 's image and two years later , at thirty-six , she was dead . |
| 8 | The haunting words of Dowson 's poem , which had brought us together again in 1943 , returned to me as I stood on that Paris balcony : |
| 9 | Lawler moved away from the wall and immediately stubbed his toe against a heavy cast-iron ornament that had been placed out of the way while the small oval table it normally stood on in the lobby was being repaired . |
| 10 | As I clambered up the ranks of steep terraces , keeping an eye on my train time , early mist still clung to the bare mountainous knives of rock , and the mountain that the fortress itself stood on was festooned with dark trailing grasses like seaweed , adding to its otherworldliness . |
| 11 | The water had reached its mark and was lapping the grass that he stood on . |
| 12 | The ground they stood on was dry and cushiony with centuries of yew-needles , nothing grew there . |
| 13 | He urged Vincent to clean them up , get them clear of the earth they stood on . |
| 14 | She was not quite tall enough to reach things around the kitchen , but she kept a small box in the outhouse which she brought in and stood on in order to get whatever she wanted . |
| 15 | If Coleby needed the land the house stood on , he would be prepared to negotiate . |
| 16 | From the tiny amount of light leaking around the door behind me , I could just make out the boards of the platform I stood on , and the first few feet of three narrow walkways emerging from the gloom , one cutting sharply away to my right , another straight ahead and a third branching left off this a few yards along . |
| 17 | Four samples of typing had subsequently been brought to Wickham , each identified by the registration number of the machine and the name of the person whose desk it normally stood on . |
| 18 | Yet , on the rooftops , the kite fliers were easily outnumbered by the pigeon fanciers — the kabooter baz-who stood on almost every terrace , hands extended into the air calling to their pigeons : Aao ! |
| 19 | And she was reported to have er have said when they when they took her out , that there would be nothing nothing grow on the site of the house but runcho And I do n't know the they were awful hungry for land in that day you ken and there was quite , there was more than one occasion there was old folk just putting up with the house just to get the land that it stood on . |
| 20 | The bridge I stood on |
| 21 | She stood remarkably still , a peculiarly regal pose . |
| 22 | He stood slowly , fascinated by the twist and turn of her , her everchanging moods . |
| 23 | And now Mrs Stych stood rather dazedly inside the front door and wondered if she was in the right house . |
| 24 | ‘ He did n't get so far at that , ’ said Snodgrass , as they stood rather warily on the outskirts of the group . |
| 25 | I was up there three days campaigning , objecting to this that I 'm being charged and believe me for those three days I stood right in Queen Street , just outside the offices there , and at no , any time during , at any particular time of day , you could have come along to me , and there were still one thousand five hundred people standing there , rain , hail , sleet or blow . |
| 26 | And it let an old house alongside with nothing in it and hardly a door on it and that stood right alongside of that one and it must have been like a comb it just must have gone in strips the gale for that house was now twelve foot away from the other one . |
| 27 | What happen was we was standing this jeweller 's , well really we 'd been there , she half the stuff for me and er other people and that , but erm , were standing there for ages , and she come , I 'm , I 'm sort of standing there like this up against the counter waiting to be served , suppose to be coming back right , stood right on the foot , it hurt , but I thought ok it 's a busy shop he wo n't so I 'd turned around , sort of he was there , so I sort of went to him like that and he was looked at me and fucking looked back , so I said are you gon na apologise then , getting right fucking pissed off cos I about three o'clock that day , hang over and being dragged up and down the town all fucking day ai n't my idea of fun you know , ri right in a bad mood anyway , and he said no in a real fucking why do n't you try and make me sort of attitude , so I 'm just about to fucking say something to me , like , how out the shop and everything , and she said what 's the fuck , what 's the matter with you then ? |
| 28 | He stood dead still , watching the wind ruffled surface of the water . |
| 29 | He has to decide whether he should stay on pending a full trial of the bitter dispute between the two men , who stood side-by-side as saviours of the financially troubled club in 1991 . |
| 30 | Thus in religious and ethnic matters , Smolensk stood somewhere between safer Kursk and insecure Finland , but numerous other areas were scattered along this spectrum between Finland and Smolensk , and between Smolensk and Kursk . |