Example sentences of "[pron] stood [adj] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | So too , to a lesser extent , do the herbaceous plants of the bush ( 9000 species in Western Australia alone ) , which stood belly-high to a horse when the first Europeans arrived in the late eighteenth century . |
| 2 | She stood still for a long moment that seemed to the others to grow into an age . |
| 3 | For some reason this made her think of Finn , and she stood still for a moment , again waiting cautiously for any twinges of anguish , any signs of unhealed wounds . |
| 4 | She stood still for a moment , breathing the air , gazing round her . |
| 5 | She stood still for a moment and looked up and down the street ; it seemed to shine ; the light the sun had poured onto the packed dirt of the road glowed back pewter under the stars ; there was no longer any moon , it had set earlier that night , and the dimensions of the scene had expanded , creating a vacancy which made Rosa feel her pulse quicken , as if she too were growing , becoming less stubby , less compact , stretching upwards and turning silvery herself like the leaf of an olive when the breeze lifts it and shows its metallic underside . |
| 6 | Where Nonconformist preachers differed was in their isolation : they stood alone without a liturgy on which to fall back or a priestly vocation which made good preaching a desirable but not essential option . |
| 7 | It stood open about an inch . |
| 8 | He stood still for a moment breathing deeply . |
| 9 | He stood straight like an elegant , modern building with his large , black hands gently hanging by his lower body . |
| 10 | The two of them stood silent for a while , gazing at the pleasant scene . |