Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] stood [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Opinion polls in August had shown 55 per cent support for the party , the highest level since its foundation in 1947 , and its membership stood at a record 5,400,000 members , or some 7 per cent of the adult population . |
| 2 | The decapitated head spun like a ball in the air , lips still moving ; his trunk stood for a few seconds in its own fountain of hot red gore before crashing on to the blood-stained ice . |
| 3 | ( Luke : Luke records that all his friends stood at a distance , including the women who had followed him from Galilee ( Luke 8:3 ) . ) |
| 4 | His apprentices stood in a respectful half-circle to watch , and a crowd of small boys — most of them children of members of the household — loitered in a shy cluster in a nearby doorway . |
| 5 | The boy was presumably present when his mother stood before a Frankish assembly " declaring her willingness to purge herself on all the charges levelled against her " — and no accuser appeared . |
| 6 | Our cottage stood in a field at the opposite end of the village from the smallholding the Guérigny family used to work . |