Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] stood [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 | Sarah 's mother and grandmother had followed her so they stood in a group on the step with several neighbours adding their congratulations . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It was something that had never happened before and she stood for a moment trying to control the thoughts that raced through her head . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I opened it and we stood for a moment , rain driving down hard . |
| 11 | Specifically , several of his pictures hung on the walls , and one stood on an easel in the centre of the living-room . |
| 12 | He took off his glasses and put his arms around her waist , and they stood for a while facing one another . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He had met him on his way to the stables , and they stood in a yard which was busy with blacksmiths and farriers . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Giving himself dialogue seemed to calm him and he stood for a moment , arms idle at his side , breathing slowly and heavily . |
| 17 | We were back in the bedroom then and he stood for a moment looking down at her . |
| 18 | But he fell asleep , and he stood on a chair , fell off and broke his arm . |
| 19 | In 1981 he was chairman of the Computer Retailers ' Association , and he stood as a local government candidate for Rother Valley in the 1987 General Election . |
| 20 | Philip Snowden , who had been a harder-line pacifist during the war than the more pragmatic Macdonald , was now Labour 's Chancellor , and he stood like a rock against all attempts to introduce new economic thinking . |
| 21 | Philip Brooks was director of Holy Trinity church in Philadelphia , erm on , and he was in the Holy Land on Christmas Eve in eighteen sixty five , and he stood in a field outside Bethlehem where the shepherds were supposed to have received the annunciation , and thought of the beginning of O Little Town of Bethlehem . |
| 22 | Even Hennessy was taken by surprise at the abrupt departure , and he stood in a moment 's confusion before turning and hurrying out . |
| 23 | He was certainly no taller than me and he stood in an instinctive boxer 's crouch . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | She had a great temptation to rest against him , but he stood with a swift movement that was all anger and sarcasm . |
| 26 | But he stood for a moment , hesitating , and Ruth saw a look of such sadness go over his face that tears threatened her again . |
| 27 | But he stood like a rock , his burning eyes fixed . |
| 28 | As instructed , the building was largely three-storey , but it stood on a high basement and was dominated by a spiky ventilation tower centrally placed over the War Department . |
| 29 | I would send it swooping over and under hers , or dive it down to the sands while I stood on a dune cliff , pulling the kite down to nick tall towers of sand I 'd built , then pulling up again , the kite trailing a spray of sand through the air from the collapsing tower . |
| 30 | She said , ‘ Well , if there 's nothing else for it ’ , and began to fold and manipulate the wedding dress while I stood like a doll , cold and alien and powerless . |