Example sentences of "[pron] stand [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everyone stands at one end of the pool , and when it is time to start I swim to the end of the pool and come back . |
| 2 | Everyone stands at one end of the room with their eggs in front of them on the floor . |
| 3 | Without taking hold of me , she forced me to stand in one spot of my own will , while she whipped me on all sides . |
| 4 | In the first six lines he asks when that love which is incarnated in Jesus will " com to comforth me " " bryng me owt of care " " gyf me " , and sets these verbs of power potentially activated on his behalf with his own sense of motionless deprivation : " I stand in still mowrnyng " . |
| 5 | where I stand in another life , |
| 6 | I stand by that decision . ’ |
| 7 | It has been announced , it is Government policy , and I stand by that policy . |
| 8 | The laws are the same on a bullet train or on a jet airplane as they are for someone standing in one place . |
| 9 | I stood about fifty metres away from the still steaming crater . |
| 10 | I pulled the door shut and almost ran to the front door and into Langdon Crescent garden , where I stood for five minutes breathing in the fresh air . |
| 11 | They made the driver help them , but I stood to one side stamping my feet to keep warm and watching the horizon with keen interest . |
| 12 | ‘ What would you give me if I stood on that boulder on one leg ? ’ asked Christopher , eyeing a small rock on the extreme edge of the cliff . |
| 13 | As I stood on one foot to remove them , the little cabin shifted on its suspension but there was no embarrassment , not even in the disparity between the utility of our underwear and the transcendence of our desire . |
| 14 | He held me while I stood on one leg to massage the injured toe . |
| 15 | As my companion remarked , the oldies are goldies and you ca n't get much ( g ) older than ‘ I stood on this stage 30 years ago and I was so successful they 've asked me back tonight . ’ |
| 16 | I stood at that window and watched you for at least two minutes ! |
| 17 | Early one morning , in the merry month of May , I stood in this dining room watching a group of climbers from all over the world being introduced to The Great Tradition . |
| 18 | In 1921 he scored 212 not out for the Ridley College XI against Hamilton CC to establish a schoolboy batting record for Canadian cricket which stands to this day . |
| 19 | Prosamo ( which stands for planned release of selected and modified organisms ) is sponsoring a wide range of studies on the behaviour of genetically engineered organisms in the environment . |
| 20 | SQL , which stands for structured query language , is a calculus-based language used on a number of database systems , for example , DB2 and Oracle . |
| 21 | We can avoid reference to transitivity by saying that there must be one and only one element which stands in some power of R to all the other members of the set . |
| 22 | Although , in the final analysis , Nizan retained a fundamentally manichean view of the world , and was consequently able , despite a growing recognition of the complex reality of political activity , to propose the clarity of an ultimate division into Good and Evil , anti-fascist and fascist , the urgent political need to enter into dialogue with liberal bourgeois organisations and liberal bourgeois writers and artists necessitated on occasions quite convoluted argumentation , justification and explanation which stand in stark contrast to the simplistic black and white denunciations of the period prior to 1934 . |
| 23 | Greenblatt 's explorations proceeds by a process of ‘ thick description ’ , paralleling some of Shakespeare 's plays with texts neither dramatic nor formally literary but which stand in symbolic relation to one another . |
| 24 | Sometimes the education officer finds himself standing between rival colleges which are each vying for a larger share of the diminishing student market . |
| 25 | OCMP group members have 32.7% of the Japanese workstation market which stood at 106,320 shipments last year , and would like to increase this share to 50% . |
| 26 | Shares in Acorn Computer Group Plc , which stood at 38 pence at the start of the year , put on 29 pence at 112 pence on the strength of its 46%-owned affiliate Advanced RISC Machines Ltd 's significant agreement with Texas Instruments Inc ( CI No 2,175 ) before settling back sixpence on Tuesday to close at 106p . |
| 27 | Everyone stopped where they were and stared as she pointed dramatically at a dark green house plant which stood on some kind of plinth behind the seat she 'd been allocated . |
| 28 | IN A HOUSE WHICH STOOD ON THIS SITE ’ . |
| 29 | He indicated one of the big Chesterfields which stood on either side of the fireplace . |
| 30 | Indeed , the dagger could have come from anywhere : a darkened window , a shadowed door or from the top of any of the low squat buildings which stood on either side of the alleyway . |