Example sentences of "[pron] stood [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I stood for a long time in a telephone box just to keep out of the slicing rain . |
| 2 | I stood for a long while looking at Voting Right . |
| 3 | I stood for a long time , staring at the mirror . |
| 4 | I could hear the sound of rent cloth in my head , but I stood on a wooden chair while Lili pinned the seams closer , standing quietly like a broken horse to be saddled and bridled . |
| 5 | Mr and Mrs Smith , the benign proprietors , were always good to me , giving me a lolly or a ‘ black jack ’ every time I shopped there , and I was looking forward to the treat as I stood behind a small queue masking the counter . |
| 6 | I stood in a short sling and laybacked over the bulge on a jammed stone into a smooth scoop . |
| 7 | I stood in a white wilderness , and perceived that to gather wood for burning in such conditions was not easy . |
| 8 | Every Saturday found me in the Hippodrome , our nearest cinema , which stood like a red-brick wireless set at the junction of Main Street , Byrely Road and Auckland Terrace . |
| 9 | Molassi sat cross legged next to a thin column of bright white light , which stood like a radiant strut at the centre of the chamber . |
| 10 | I had an old air-raid shelter , partly dug into the ground because of the slope : there was a load of stones on top , waiting to turn the shelter into an apple store disguised as a rockery , and when Mrs Wilson saw this she stood for a long time looking at the hump in the ground and the pile of stones . |
| 11 | There she stood for a long time , gazing out to sea , her heart full of sadness and her eyes full of tears . |
| 12 | When he had gone , she stood for a long time in front of the looking-glass that hung over the fire , her hands pressed to her cheeks , her face quite alive with excitement . |
| 13 | She stood for a long time , trying to make sense of her feelings , the words he had said tumbling around in her brain . |
| 14 | She was defeated when she stood as a National Labour candidate in 1931 . |
| 15 | After that she stood in a hazy dream , listening to the words that made them husband and wife . |
| 16 | She stood in a dark stifling cell , the woman mumbling by her side . |
| 17 | A dream in which she stood in a glorious , sweet-scented , flower-filled garden watching a tall , golden-haired man playing with beautiful blonde , blue-eyed children , all miniature replicas of himself . |
| 18 | It was as if she stood in a noisy limbo ; all the yesterdays had gone as if they had never been and all the tomorrows were no more than a tantalising promise . |
| 19 | She stood in a large yard with a glass of white wine in her hand and it spilt down the front of her red dress when she jumped at the banging noise of a firework . |
| 20 | ' Another worker , who stood as a Conservative councillor , said she had encountered Mr Lawson at a reception last year and had been asked by the Chancellor why she had lost . |
| 21 | Mr Clark , who stood as a parliamentary candidate in Motherwell North at the last election , added : ‘ I very much welcome the council group decision to demonstrate its confidence in Alex Salmond . ’ |
| 22 | Thus Aquinas , who stood in a long tradition which came to him through the teachings of the early canonists summed up in Gratian 's Decretum ( 1140 ) , was clear that every state had both the right and the duty to defend itself , its legitimate existence , and its rights when these could be legally proved ( ‘ It is legitimate to oppose force with force ’ , as Justinian 's Digest put it ) . |
| 23 | Thus I do not for example think that there could be a human person ( which Christians must proclaim ) who stood in a different relationship to God than do all other human beings . |
| 24 | I began to wonder what was happening when we stood for a long time at Birmingham New Street . |
| 25 | In the garden of Burleigh Court , situated near the present Ulster Bank , there stood for a long time an old pear tree known as ‘ King William 's pear tree ’ . |
| 26 | There they stood for a long time by a low stone wall , staring hopelessly out at the yellow fields of stubble , where the wheatsheaves were stooked and ready for gathering into the barn . |
| 27 | They stood for a long time in silence , and the others left them alone . |
| 28 | There the rise and swell of incomprehensible Latin seemed to have a grandeur that aroused the spirit of poetry in the Gaels , as if they stood on a rocky shore communing with the waves . |
| 29 | The other two men were hit by the two gunmen as they stood on a nearby footpath at the spot where black taxis operate up and down Belfast 's Falls Road . |
| 30 | A six inch deep channel of water still flowed over their wader clad feet as they stood in a rough circle looking down at something in the mud . |