Example sentences of "[pron] stand [v-ing] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I stand listening for a moment — crying could ruin everything — but there 's only the rhythmic suck-suck , suck-suck , suck-suck as it breathes and sucks on the medicine . |
| 2 | Fifteen minutes later , or it may have been twenty , I stood staring at a caged lift : the chest-flexing iron lattice , the accordion doors . |
| 3 | I stood staring for a long while . |
| 4 | The bus was cosy and , as I stood dangling from a strap with the other excess passengers , someone asked the driver if Hampstead Road was still closed off to traffic going north . |
| 5 | She stood listening for a few minutes , trying not to smile . |
| 6 | She was breathing too hard , too noisily she stood looking into a window to slow her breath . |
| 7 | Then , instead of running over the main road to our street , she stood waving for a bit and then walked backwards down the post part and started going up someone 's drive . |
| 8 | I seem to remember , Bill , way back in 1979 during the election campaign , Margaret Thatcher had a small calf pressed upon her , which she stood holding in a field in East Anglia or something , so I mean it 's not just erm John Major . |
| 9 | As she stood waiting for a taxi a speeding car appeared out of the freezing fog . |