Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] stood [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Paul 's score at the 17th came on they were close to erupting , so while Nick signed his card I stood beside the 18th green . |
| 2 | Without showing any sign of emotion he stood for a while at the head of the bier . |
| 3 | For a few months he stood on a European par with Adler and Liebknecht and tried to take responsibility for Russians interned after the Brest–Litovsk peace . |
| 4 | And then every year after that , they used to hold the one minute 's silence which the mill whistles went and of course you stood for a minute and then they went again and that was it over . |
| 5 | But our to avoid that situation I left and went to work with which kept me in the Edinburgh branch and within three or four weeks I stood for the local organizer and had not been successful . |
| 6 | For a moment she stood at the door , watching it , wondering whether to answer it or not . |
| 7 | For a moment she stood in the doorway , allowing her eyes to adjust to the gloomy interior . |
| 8 | Like mourners at a funeral they stood in the downpour , men , women and children , sodden , hardly bothering to protect themselves , watching the destruction . |
| 9 | The mythic figure of the General — as portrayed in the War Memoirs — had known , from the moment he stood at the top of the Champs Elysées on 26 August 1944 , that the new leaders whom the war had brought to power would betray the cause of national renewal . |
| 10 | For a moment he stood before the mirror , staring into it . |
| 11 | For a while I stood by the shattered doorway , wondering what to do . |
| 12 | This , of course , delighted the child and every night she stood in the wings performing everybody 's act with them , and even at the end of two shows , she was as bright in the dressing room as she 'd been at the overture . |
| 13 | I was touched when my dad told me that every night he stood on the back doorstep and said goodnight to John . |
| 14 | However , she realised the wisdom of his words , but hunger and the sound of the lunch bell caused her to discard all thoughts of a long soak , and instead of running a bath she stood beneath the soothing waters of a hot shower . |
| 15 | After an hour on the flat we stood on an old snow patch at the foot of the Plaret cascades and looked straight up a perfect glacier valley to the hut , and beyond the Promontoire hut , glinting in the afternoon light , high on a southerly arm of La Meije . |
| 16 | Pulling himself up from the floor he stood before the dying fire , his short fat legs and large stomach making Michael feel sick inside . |
| 17 | At the election he stood as the architect 's architect , pledged to stand up for quality of design . |
| 18 | For several minutes he stood outside the hut , drenched to the skin , listening to the muffled sounds with a growing sense of desolation . |
| 19 | At length I stood on the ground , up to my ankles in fresh-fallen snow . |
| 20 | Panting with anticipation he stood by the nailed boards as the men inside opened the yard gate . |
| 21 | At the end of my final year I stood as a sabbatical officer for the Union . |
| 22 | I pulled up in a gateway , Sam jumped out and we went through into a field ; and as the beagle scampered over the glittering turf I stood in the warm sunshine amid the melting frost and looked back at the dark damp blanket which blotted out the low country but left this jewelled world above it . |
| 23 | Something about the way she stood in the large unwieldy garment gave Benny courage . |
| 24 | At Ellers we stood on the bridge watching swallows skimming and bumping the water after a hatch of flies that the late afternoon warmth had brought out . |
| 25 | In the film they stood at the gates of a temple . |
| 26 | He was a good-looking man in his late thirties , and Fran had met him on several occasions but had never liked him , finding something faintly repugnant about the way he stood on the outside of life looking in , searching for anything unsavoury . |
| 27 | On his way to mop up the bathroom he stood before a mirror admiring his Egyptian slimness of hip . |
| 28 | In the hall of Sea House she stood by the telephone , looking at it . |
| 29 | Valerie Stevens had been in the house to get more coffee and as she stepped through the patio doors she stood for a moment staring at Rachel in horror , having only heard the last part of the conversation . |
| 30 | When people came to the doors they stood on the step talking and looking over at our side of the street . |