Example sentences of "[pron] stand [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I stand in a five-pointed star position in the middle of the room while the doghandler runs his hands along my limbs . |
| 2 | I stand in a light mist of rain . |
| 3 | ‘ I stand in a British book shop with my mouth agape . |
| 4 | I stood for a long time in a telephone box just to keep out of the slicing rain . |
| 5 | I stood for a long while looking at Voting Right . |
| 6 | I stood for a long time , staring at the mirror . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I stood in a short sling and laybacked over the bulge on a jammed stone into a smooth scoop . |
| 10 | I stood in a white wilderness , and perceived that to gather wood for burning in such conditions was not easy . |
| 11 | Begun in the 1220's , two powerful towers on a crag are the dominant features of this castle , which stands above a deep gorge overlooking the River Teifi , famed for its coracle fishermen . |
| 12 | If there exists a word which stands in a paronymic relation to one occurrence of a word form , but does not stand in the same relation to a second , syntactically identical occurrence of the same word form in a different context , then that word form is ambiguous , and the two occurrences exemplify different senses . |
| 13 | The Val d'Azun will take you down at its eastern end to the town of Argelés-Gazost , which stands in a wide basin of the Gave de Pau , some eight miles south of Lourdes . |
| 14 | The cathedral , which stands in a commanding position on a hill overlooking the wide valley below , was begun in the early twelfth century . |
| 15 | Once when giving a criticism at the College he found himself standing beside a cold radiator . |
| 16 | Willie found himself standing in a large field . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The index-linked gilts on the market have maturities of up to 2024 and most of them stand at a substantial premium to their par value . |
| 20 | She stands for a long moment . |
| 21 | If you are to be awkward then my mother will not know where she stands for a good deal of time . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ If you stand in a real landscape and pick out with your eyes a path ahead , then walk the path and find it was a good route to have chosen , why , that is nothing mystical . |
| 23 | Whether you stand in a pristine lowland rainforest , beside a road or in an urban park , any casual glance towards the earth will quickly pick out ants , from a few to many individuals — and often from several species . |
| 24 | The children , who stand in a small cluster near the goat enclosure , now look at each other and laugh , too , but when the laibon swings his impressive , lidded gaze towards them , they freeze . |
| 25 | If Vic says could you stand in a different way or use the pole like this and tries to demonstrate they simply wo n't . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | There she stood for a long time , gazing out to sea , her heart full of sadness and her eyes full of tears . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | She stood for a long time , trying to make sense of her feelings , the words he had said tumbling around in her brain . |
| 30 | She was defeated when she stood as a National Labour candidate in 1931 . |