Example sentences of "[adj] stood [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One man dug using full beam while another stood by the internal telephone system with a dimmed light . |
| 2 | Further indications of the use of other material in C are the addition to the 1030 annal of the death of Earl Hakon , and the 1023 entry on Cnut 's reconciliation with Thorkell ; but maybe this stood in the common original and a precursor of D and E left it out . |
| 3 | This stood by the important road between Vyšehrad and the Vltava fords . |
| 4 | The three stood in a momentary island of calm , whilst around them the fighting surged like surf beating up a beach . |
| 5 | No clear distinction was made between the temporal and spiritual privileges of the Church ; they all stood on the same level , enforced by the same sanctions , guaranteed by the same authority , reflecting the same divine ordering of the world . |
| 6 | A green BMW with the boot ajar stood outside the rear entrance of the fourth house ; a man was loading boxes and files . |
| 7 | Miss Fergusson had maintained , when they first stood before the haloed mountain , that there were two explanations of everything , that each required the exercise of faith , and that we had been given free will in order that we might choose between them . |
| 8 | But when a national day of action was organised in Ottawa earlier this month just 200 stood in the cold outside Parliament . |
| 9 | What I could not say was that , as we two stood in the shadowy parlour , I felt considerably within her spell . |
| 10 | That stood on a dark straight of barren land . |
| 11 | Each stood at the ready , one eye on the pylon , the other on my raised arm . |