Example sentences of "[pron] stand [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I stand upon the privileges of the House and my own integrity . ’ |
| 2 | I stand against the railings and remain in one place to avoid the crap , and look upwards . |
| 3 | I think it might help if I stand near the drawings . |
| 4 | Erm , I find myself agreeing with what Mr Courcier said , er , about Hambledon , I do n't think it realistic to expect existing settleme , villages within the area of search to form a nucleus for a new settlement , they 're simply too small and would be swamped by any development , and also the er I stand by the statements made yesterday about the environmental quality of the settlements , about there form , settings , and characters , and I really do n't think that they could form the nucleus of a new settlement . |
| 5 | You only got one shot — this was live television — and I stood in the wings , rigid with fear , listening to my heart booming . |
| 6 | But two evenings later , as I stood in the wings about to go on , she came off stage and , separating from the others , clutching my arm , she whispered , ‘ Lily , Lily , dearest — the worst , it is all the worst — ’ Her eyes , against the wet white , the rouge , were large , frightened . |
| 7 | I had a vision thus prospectively of these birds as I stood in the swamps . |
| 8 | The Lake House ( sometimes called the Orangery ) which stands in the grounds of Frampton Court , was almost certainly designed by William Halfpenny or his son John , who lived near Bristol in the 1740s . |
| 9 | Parents in Middleton St George , near Darlington , have raised several thousand pounds to maintain the building which stands in the grounds of the village school . |
| 10 | On the following day , however , at a thatch-roofed tavern which stood on the outskirts of Stokenchurch village , the landlord listened to Corbett 's questions and pursed his lips in self-importance . |
| 11 | Then she caught sight of the suitcase which stood by the steps . |
| 12 | The one who stands on the stairs ? |
| 13 | Are you aware that the array of funerals , commonly made by undertakers , is strictly the heraldic array of a baronial funeral , the two men who stand at the doors being supposed to be the two porters of the castle , with their staves , in black ; the man who heads the procession , wearing a scarf , being a representative of a herald-at-arms ; the man who carries a plume of feathers on his head being an esquire , who bears the shield and casque , with its plume of feathers ; the pall-bearers , with batons , being representatives of knights-companions-at-arms ; the men walking with wands being supposed to represent gentlemen-ushers , with their wands : are you aware that this is said to be the origin and type of the common array usually provided by those who undertake to perform funerals ? |
| 14 | She stood outside the lifts in the hospital 's main entrance with other visitors . |
| 15 | She stood between the cops and Rubberneck . |
| 16 | She stood at the altar-steps , uncertain what to do as she watched her daughter try to put her arms round her priestly uncle , prattling all the while in infant Italian . |
| 17 | In a kind of distracted daze , she stood on the sidelines as the police arrived and started asking questions . |
| 18 | She stood on the steps of the court , and told the crowd gathered there that the parents had been told they would have to wait to hear whether the Place of Safety orders had been confirmed , or whether their children would be returning home . |
| 19 | She stood on the stairs by the open window , waiting for the next stroke of the bell , waiting in fact for this sign of Ernest 's madness . |
| 20 | Her palms were sweating as she stood in the wings in her best green dress waiting for them to come off so that she could get on . |
| 21 | This , of course , delighted the child and every night she stood in the wings performing everybody 's act with them , and even at the end of two shows , she was as bright in the dressing room as she 'd been at the overture . |
| 22 | As she stood in the wings , she whispered to her daughter Carol , ‘ What am I doing here ? ’ |
| 23 | She was a good waitress , but when she stood by the tables , the men looked round her to see Aileen . |
| 24 | Not only did this save the horses the pull up the hill through the village , but it gave them the occasion for one more glimpse of Tamar and the children , who stood on the steps , waving . |
| 25 | There is a story of a party of Americans who stood by the Porters ' Lodge at King 's College , Cambridge . |
| 26 | Lifelike , at least , but for the dark , unfocused figures who stood in the shadows beneath the trees on the far side of the water . |
| 27 | In any case they were told that the count was waiting and the waiter indicated the man who stood in the shadows at the other side of the foyer . |
| 28 | One stands behind the others as their overall ruler . |
| 29 | But Sunday Express editor Eve Pollard — known to TV viewers as a regular panellist on David Frost 's Through The Keyhole game show — hit back : ‘ We stand by the quotes attributed to the Princess Royal . ’ |
| 30 | We stood outside the boys ’ loo , Mum and me . |