Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] stood [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At either side of her stood a faithful attendant , one being a confidential maid , the other a Miss Drake — an old , mittened companion , hardly younger in appearance than herself — both of whom watched her with eyes of solicitous reverence , and seemed always ready to collapse into quasi-religious curtseys . |
| 2 | Behind them stood the big brothers of the computing world , the Primes , Vax 's and assorted IBM mainframes , more powerful and versatile in their capabilities and developing slow and awkward means of communication and portability with a degree of interactive processing that still left time for coffee and often for a three course meal . |
| 3 | Behind you stood the tall windows , in fives , and the glimpsed interiors always the colour of watery gravy . |
| 4 | Underneath it stood an orange box on top of which were two flower pots . |
| 5 | Behind it stood an old-fashioned switchboard and numbered pigeon-holes for the guests ' post . |
| 6 | Behind it stood the international gold standard . |
| 7 | Amongst the papers before him stood an empty breakfast cup and an egg-smeared plate , suggesting that his digestion was as robust as his nerve . |
| 8 | In it stood the small , slight figure of the head verger , his silver hair and babyish complexion at odds with each other , as , indeed , was his black suit of the gentleman 's gentleman variety and his rather springy gymnast 's step . |
| 9 | Beside me stood an aged Gibraltarian granny . |
| 10 | Beside her stood a pleasant-looking , round , grey-haired woman , unsure of what to do , hesitating about whether to hush the weeping figure or let her cry . |
| 11 | Beside her stood a small , red-haired girl , white-faced and dark-eyed . |
| 12 | Beyond it stood the young squire who brought him , the smoking tube in his hand , his face stamped with rage and with loathing . |
| 13 | An oval mirror , pock-marked and fly-stained , was set in the top of this extravagant and monstrous contraption and next to it stood a hollow elephant 's foot mounted on a wooden base . |
| 14 | Next to it stood an empty tubular blue clothes rack , a tubular blue chair , a tubular blue AV rig . |
| 15 | Between us stood a fat red candle , whose flame was beginning to drown in a pond of wax , and a purple African violet made of plastic . |