Example sentences of "stood the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her father stood behind her , sweating and beaming , and behind the bridegroom stood the Duke , tall and shaggy , holding a long pine branch covered with fresh green cones . |
| 2 | She stepped forward and discovered , sitting at a desk which stood the right way up , a small dark man . |
| 3 | And behind the West German media stood the country 's politicians , nursing illusions about the recreation of a new ‘ German Reich ’ with the pre-war frontiers of 1937 . |
| 4 | In this room , below the gallery , stood the dining table with about twenty chairs and a large decorative closed stove on one side , all of which increased the impression of a castle with a baronial hall . |
| 5 | Behind the dog in the trees stood the boy . |
| 6 | He helped them into the railway coach , stood the dark lantern on the floor , checked the blinds and curtains with the torch , slammed the carriage door and flooded the whole place with good old-fashioned electric light . |
| 7 | One of last year 's Scabiosa atropurpurea seedlings stood the winter like a biennial , and like the over-wintering tobacco plants , began flowering early . |
| 8 | Another button and up stood the rest . |
| 9 | Bold and clear , on my right and ahead of us , stood the craggy Blue Stack Mountains , rearing their heads in strange volcanic attitudes . |
| 10 | Behind the furthest supermarket stood the gigantic glittering indoor shopping centre where I was about to work . |
| 11 | There stood the wise old Chinaman whom the wise old Moravian would greet every morning when he entered . |
| 12 | The man stood the music carefully on the rack and watched the woman settle on the stool . |
| 13 | Although outwardly a man of the Establishment , Bill McEwan Younger had the self-confidence to adopt unorthodox views which stood the test of time . |
| 14 | Next to them stood the second rank of drinkers , ‘ troops ’ of the gangs , not yet vicious enough to challenge the leaders or even each other , unless they were mob-handed . |
| 15 | There in front of him , holding the empty medicine bottle , stood the Bookman ! |
| 16 | Behind Leonard Arthur , however , stood the vast majority of the general public , who flooded him with letters of support during the trial . |
| 17 | At one end stood the Imperial Throne over which hung a purple baldaquin at the top of which was a golden Imperial eagle . |
| 18 | Next to the bed , on a small table , stood the Golden Rose sent by the Pope in 1856 to mark the birth of the Prince Imperial . |
| 19 | There on the other side stood the small square where the Lebanese parliament had once met . |
| 20 | At its top stood the unfinished Temple of the Moon : including six reddish monoliths the size of upended trucks knit by narrow columns of stone . |
| 21 | And she clapped her hands together , and suddenly they all rose in the air , man , woman , house , glass flasks , heap of dust , and found themselves out on a cold hillside where stood the original little grey man with Otto the hound . |
| 22 | But against that stood the report of his excellent behaviour over the last month . |
| 23 | Beside the school stood the little school house , and beside that a row of small cottages . |
| 24 | Within fifty yards of the Youngs ' home , across the road which led northward to the Midlands , stood the house called Tullivers at one on our imaginary clock . |
| 25 | At nine o'clock , looking across the green to the Baileys ' house , stood the village school , a sturdy one-storey building of Cotswold stone in a playground of generous proportions . |
| 26 | Next door to Tullivers stood the Baileys ' house . |
| 27 | Near the top of the hill stood the large white building which was the San Martino Museum and above it , and in contrast to the museum 's firm elegant lines , could be seen the solid brown ramparts of St Elmo 's Castle . |
| 28 | Behind the empty and desolate bar , stood the solitary figure of Tim , the barman , calmly tearing up at least half-a-dozen pages of unpaid drinks in the name of Denis O'Neil . |
| 29 | Although the new cars were of radical body design , they used conventional equipment of proven reliability which stood the test of time . |
| 30 | At the Foxhall Hotel , a single track leaves the Promenade line and runs down the centre of the narrow Princess Street , turning into Blundell Street , Here until 1982 stood the original tram depot , as rebuilt in 1898 for the conversion of the system to overhead line . |