Example sentences of "[adj] stand the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Relatives of the boys murdered by Harris found it similarly gratifying to stand the other side of a thick glass window and watch Harris choke to death on cyanide gas . |
| 2 | Before the Brownings left Florence she had enquired of Mr Browning how things stood and had been told very ill , but that this must be kept from his wife until she was in the warm south and better able to stand the inevitable end of it all . |
| 3 | Herdwicks start lambing a year after other breeds because they need to grow enough to stand the harsh climate . |
| 4 | At 4/506 stands the imposing Lichtenstein Palace . |
| 5 | 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 . |