Example sentences of "[pron] stand at [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I stood at the front door of No. 5 , watching Dana straddle his bike , adjust his backpack and wave cheerily to me as he roared off down the road . |
| 2 | I stood at the front door for a long time being soaked by the rain . |
| 3 | I stood at the front door and it was around my ankles , within five minutes it was around my knees , ’ said Joanne . |
| 4 | However , there is a place in social research , and a very important one , for the type of interview which stands at the other extreme to the structured one , namely the non-standardised interview . |
| 5 | Another allegedly ‘ royal ’ tomb is the Great Tomb at Chrysolakkos , which stands at the northern edge of the Minoan town of Mallia , a little inland from the cliffed headland , and it is thought to have served as a family vault for Mallia 's royal family in the New Temple Period ( for instance , by Hood 1971 , p. 145 ) . |
| 6 | It can be said of these strong-minded and independently gifted accomplices that their work shows a dimension of reciprocity and replication , of the production unit , which stands at an appreciable remove from parody and plagiarism , and from the mimicry of other people 's voices which is comprehended in the term ‘ ventriloquism ’ , which Amis goes in for in private , among friends , and which is also a pleasure of the novels he writes . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | But before Budd came on , they had to listen to Andy Roberts , who stands at the opposite end of ufology to Hopkins and whose new book , Phantoms Of The Sky ( written with Dave Clarke , published by Robert Hale ) , gave the conference its name . |
| 9 | but when ya , when you stand at the front door and er there 's a blower breeze and it 's cold , if you put your hand round the door like that , you can feel a draught , you can feel it colder than the you know and the letter box , the draught but if you take that and put a curtain up , it 'll keep the cold out , you 've stopped the draught so you 're gon na win |
| 10 | She stood at the beaded glass and looked out into the gathering darkness . |
| 11 | She stood at the open kitchen window with her early cup of tea clasped in both hands , listening to the swish of the falling water and watching it gather in tiny globules on the tips of the leaves of the apple tree like crystal drops on a chandelier before sliding with a slow , regular inevitability on to the grass . |
| 12 | Er , obviously on a more serious note , er it was very disappointing that we had such a severe er downturn in profitability last year after several years of steadily rising profits , and so what I want to do this morning was tell you a little bit about what happened in the last part of the year , since we met at the time of the interim results presentation last September , tell you the actions that have been taken and give you a little bit of insight as to where we stand at the present time . |
| 13 | We stood at the railed-off observation platform at Bartlet Nab and looked down on to a spectacular scene . |
| 14 | Enabling self-expression allows counsellees to explain to us where they stand at the present time . |
| 15 | They stood at the long sash windows of his office and looked out across the building-site . |
| 16 | So what do you think about the overall situation as it stands at the present time ? |
| 17 | Drawing a deep breath to hide a flicker of nervousness , he stood at the great carved oak lectern and looked along the stalls at the nuns who sat before him there , so composed in their wimples of white and the dark garb of their Order . |
| 18 | He stood at the ornate head of the stairs and listened . |