Example sentences of "[verb] to stand at [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few years back each golfer used his own collection of chipped and misshapen balls and the caddies were expected to stand at the end of the practice area and collect them . |
| 2 | The man moved to stand at the top of the stairs , barring their way , and then he recognized the young man . |
| 3 | His hand under her arm steadied her as they moved to stand at the rail . |
| 4 | Penry Vaughan ducked his tall head through the doorway and moved to stand at the foot of the bed in the shadows beyond the arc of light from the small lamp . |
| 5 | On he 's , he 's instructions , on , do n't like that dam great bush being so near , he never has to stand at the kitchen sink and look out like I do this is where my , it 's funny whether the winds blowing this way or that way , |
| 6 | The Party 's best known members , Jonathan Porritt and Sara Parkin , declined to stand at a ballot to elect two Green Party political speakers . |
| 7 | He did not , but went to stand at the window , looking out . |
| 8 | Pushing roughly past him , she went to stand at the window , her back to him . |
| 9 | Luke pushed back his chair impatiently and went to stand at the window , looking down , his back towards her . |
| 10 | She had gone to stand at the cemetery end after spotting Uncle Vernon on the touchline in front of the club-house . |
| 11 | O'Hara had risen and gone to stand at the mantelpiece . |
| 12 | Will he confim that if unemployment figures were counted today on the same basis as they were in 1979 employment Ministers would be forced to stand at the Dispatch Box and admit that the number of economically active people who are unemployed in Great Britain today is 3.75 million ? |
| 13 | She was forced to stand at the back , squashed between a thin jeans-clad youth with bony shoulders and sharp elbows and a red-faced man with a paunch . |
| 14 | She continued to stand at the edge of the plateau . |
| 15 | Staffing ratios were generally better in grammar schools than elsewhere , and even the Burnham system favoured ( as it was meant to do ) schools with a larger proportion of older pupils , especially if they were in those sixth forms which continued to stand at the peak of a meritocratic secondary system . |
| 16 | There were so many mourners at the funeral that some had to stand at the back and listen to the service relayed by loudspeakers . |
| 17 | Though she was only a part-time whore who ‘ had to stand at the washtub next day . ’ |