Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] stood [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mostly stood on the sidelines , watching the heavy-weights raging at each other . |
| 2 | I nearly stood on a grouse once , when we were walking up I was n't walking with you , it was when we were with the Footpath Society . |
| 3 | Maté and I now stood at the junction of the cathedral 's great T. The vertical limb of this overpowering architectural masterpiece sloped downwards . |
| 4 | Now that I actually stood in the house of Victor Frankenstein , I felt myself no more than a character in a fantastic film . |
| 5 | The someone , who was , of course , Dr Neil , struck a Swan Vesta to light the oil-lamp which always stood on a side-table where he usually kept the book which he was currently reading . |
| 6 | Magnificent is the fine stone canopy which once stood over the tomb of Bishop Lucianus by Matěj Rejsek , 1493 . |
| 7 | A little museum in Broadbank helps to tell the history of the town and right at the door is placed the Blue-stone : an enormous boulder which once stood on a street corner in the town and is thought to have been brought here by the Scandinavian ice flow . |
| 8 | This is the Drowned Forest , which once stood on the land , before the sea came in over it . |
| 9 | It is the last remaining of four windmills which once stood in the town . |
| 10 | Richard Baxter 's Statue which originally stood in the centre of the Bull Ring in Kidderminster . |
| 11 | The dome is supported on four columns which have Ionic capitals taken from a classical temple which earlier stood upon the site . |
| 12 | What its function was and what relationship it bore to the building-complex which then stood on the site of the later temple has yet to be established . |
| 13 | She can not do this , pleading that surely loving him now is enough , but this does not fit into Gatsby 's dream and he can not accept this , ‘ his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it ’ , but it was he , himself , who finally stood in the way of fulfilment . |
| 14 | When she went to South Africa on holiday she deliberately stood in the queue designated for " blacks " at the Post Office counter , and left in disgust when she was told to queue in the area reserved for whites . |
| 15 | Athletic and committed , Joanne , who once stood on the fringes of junior county badminton , now has a goal to realise . |
| 16 | Dr Clarke , a retired headmaster who once stood as the Liberal candidate for Edinburgh Pentlands , is a prominent member of the far right . |
| 17 | In truth she was n't really interested in Taureg 's arrival , but anything that broke the self-imposed purdah of her existence was welcome , she supposed , for she still stood outside the real world , looking in ; a part of her still waited in Yeoman 's Lane and none of this strangeness around her was really happening . |
| 18 | Theseus and Antiope are finely finished all round ; but the back of Athena is left rough ( an important document for archaic technique ) and she clearly stood in the old formal kore-pose . |
| 19 | Land government : CDU-FDP coalition depending on support of independent deputy Wolfgang Schulz , who originally stood as an SPD candidate but then as an independent because of alleged Stasi connections . |
| 20 | You simply stood by the grill and never took your eyes off it until it was the colour you wanted . |
| 21 | Standing on Anak Krakatoa we could see and feel the fragility of the world , for we also stood at the gateway to its oceanic hemisphere . |
| 22 | Even in those days , the South Tyne had good runs of salmon and we often stood by the weir at Haltwhistle in September , watching salmon fighting their way upstream . |
| 23 | They just stood on the doorstep and said : ‘ Do n't you want to see your mother ? ’ |
| 24 | But they had all their equipment with them and they just stood on the deck and underneath below deck were the people who rowed the boats over . |
| 25 | Not only did they guard the bridge crossing the Tyne , but they also stood at the junction of the Stanegate , running west towards Carlisle , and Dere Street , one of the two main arterial routes from York into central southern Scotland . |
| 26 | When they found their home occupied by a man and two children , they simply stood in the doorway with faces as empty as begging bowls , and made no complaint . |
| 27 | IT MAY SEEM paradoxical to describe Mrs Curdle 's gipsy caravan first , for it only stood on the green for a day or two at the end of April and beginning of May each year . |
| 28 | What told most against Pétain , however , was that while Joffre , Foch and de Castelnau all swam vigorously with the current , he alone stood against the prevailing tide of the de Grandmaison movement . |
| 29 | A few people ran round to see how she was and he just stood at the window watching with a shotgun . ’ |
| 30 | A few people ran round to see how she was and he just stood at the window watching with a shotgun . ’ |