Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] stand [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | She seemed to vanish as quickly as she had appeared , leaving Ianthe to be pushed forward into the train , where she stood in a daze until she found herself sitting down in a seat offered to her by a small boy . |
| 2 | They walk on their knees and the front legs like this , so they stand on a knee and then those two legs , and then that knee and these two legs , so they |
| 3 | Sarah 's mother and grandmother had followed her so they stood in a group on the step with several neighbours adding their congratulations . |
| 4 | Although it stands as an important account of new anthropological theory and purports to throw a revealing light on the social organisation of Balinese society , its carefully organised narrative is also a good story arranged so the shifts between Geertz 's account of his gradual development as an aficionado of cockfighting and the development of his theory of the social significance of this sport merge . |
| 5 | So the meaning of a sign consists in the bare fact that it stands in an external causal relation to that which we say it signifies . |
| 6 | Warwick 's position as chief steward of the duchy in the north , and steward and constable of all the key Yorkshire lordships , meant that he stood in a position of authority towards all the other northern duchy servants and Edward IV would have been very seriously weakened if Warwick had managed to win them over . |
| 7 | Warwick 's position as chief steward of the duchy in the north , and steward and constable of all the key Yorkshire lordships , meant that he stood in a position of authority towards all the other northern duchy servants and Edward IV would have been very seriously weakened if Warwick had managed to win them over . |
| 8 | If I stood on a street corner somewhere , someone could slip me a small packet in exchange for a fiver and in a few hours I 'd be slumped on the floor of a public toilet : a Drug Statistic . |
| 9 | It is rather a perspective that recognizes and takes full account of the reality of such crime within the world and which stands at a distance from it . |
| 10 | And you stand like a prisoner |
| 11 | Dalgliesh waited until Meg had unlocked the front door and stepped inside before saying his final goodnight , and she stood for a moment watching his tall figure striding down the gravel path and into the darkness . |
| 12 | It was something that had never happened before and she stood for a moment trying to control the thoughts that raced through her head . |
| 13 | Melissa found its clean , uncluttered lines at once calming and uplifting , and she stood for a few moments just inside the door , absorbing the tranquil atmosphere . |
| 14 | It was as if she stood in a noisy limbo ; all the yesterdays had gone as if they had never been and all the tomorrows were no more than a tantalising promise . |
| 15 | If you stand on a hill in winter when there is a thaw or look down from a motorway , especially in the Midlands , you can hardly miss the pattern of long parallel bands of snow , which are always the last to go from the hollows of the old ridge and furrow . |
| 16 | Most crystals are initially unreachable , but luckily there are several numbered blocks on each level which allow you to build a bridge across the void — if you stand on a block marked ‘ 4 ’ and move off the platform you create a block marked ‘ 3 ’ , the original turning into a standard unmarked jobbie . |
| 17 | ‘ 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 . |
| 18 | I opened it and we stood for a moment , rain driving down hard . |
| 19 | Specifically , several of his pictures hung on the walls , and one stood on an easel in the centre of the living-room . |
| 20 | One can never be defeated if one stands on a matter of morality . ’ |
| 21 | There can be the desperate feeling that life has passed them by , and they stand on a precipice , wondering whether to jump into the arms of the first person who offers , or risk endless loneliness. , |
| 22 | He took off his glasses and put his arms around her waist , and they stood for a while facing one another . |
| 23 | And they stood in a corner and drank them , and exchanged their names , at last : she much admired the clear way with which he presented his own . |
| 24 | He had met him on his way to the stables , and they stood in a yard which was busy with blacksmiths and farriers . |
| 25 | The symbolic goods produced here will only have much of a chance of realizing their value if they stand in a relation of ‘ elective affinity ’ to the consumers ; that is , to their ideal and material interests . |
| 26 | There the rise and swell of incomprehensible Latin seemed to have a grandeur that aroused the spirit of poetry in the Gaels , as if they stood on a rocky shore communing with the waves . |
| 27 | His father , also Norman , who died a year earlier , in 1772 , is portrayed in Allan Ramsay 's portrait as if he might have been Bonnie Prince Charlie — in wrap-around plaid , curly white wig , a gold-hilted claymore at his left hip , right hand outflung , and he stands in a landscape of rock , sky and water . |
| 28 | Giving himself dialogue seemed to calm him and he stood for a moment , arms idle at his side , breathing slowly and heavily . |
| 29 | We were back in the bedroom then and he stood for a moment looking down at her . |
| 30 | But he fell asleep , and he stood on a chair , fell off and broke his arm . |