Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] stood [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He usually stood on a little platform raised high enough to enable him to see over and past the cabins when the boat was moving . |
| 6 | We may suppose that it originally stood in a niche . |