Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] stood [prep] [art] " 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 | We wandered over Clare Bridge , which always looks as if it is about to collapse , and then up to St John 's , where we stood on the old Wren bridge and talked for some time , gazing at the so-called Bridge of Sighs which connects the old and new parts of St John 's . |
| 3 | Conservative Coun Peter Jones said the Dryden affair could have been avoided if both sides had known where they stood from the outset . |
| 4 | Earlier , at a London news conference , Mr Ashdown challenged Mr Kinnock and Mr Major to make clear where they stood in the event of a hung parliament . |
| 5 | Bourgeois society took for granted the sanctity of property , the supremacy of the market as a social regulator , the propriety of individual self-improvement and self-advancement , the abandonment of the traditional and irrational where they stood in the way of utility , and a belief in progress . |
| 6 | She put her arms round him where he stood on the threshold of her room . |
| 7 | Dad Tam : " You promise me you will never tell anybody " til " am deed that I stood for the man who made that statue . " |
| 8 | Sometimes she dreamed that she stood in the dock of some great court , accused of terrible crimes , at others that she was having to use all her skill to free Anthony of a capital charge and failing . |
| 9 | Penry reached out a long arm and drew her in front of him so that she stood in the shelter of his arms as he held the wheel . |
| 10 | I outlined what my message had been over the past two weeks and would be at the Party Conference — that we stood by the National Health Service and had no intention of moving over to a new system of finance . |
| 11 | Relatively little is known of the first great temples , which were built between 2000 and 1900 BC and destroyed by earthquakes in 1700 BC , except that they stood on the same sites as the later temples . |
| 12 | Now that they stood in the light , Jehan could see that both of them were blackened by grime and oil . |
| 13 | Sarah 's mother and grandmother had followed her so they stood in a group on the step with several neighbours adding their congratulations . |
| 14 | No doubt Temple remembered that once they stood on the same platform at Cambridge . |
| 15 | In his theology , however , Hooker was not simply a traditionalist ; although he stood within the mainstream of the Calvinist consensus on the issue of predestination , he challenged many of the assumptions held by both credal and experimental Calvinists . |
| 16 | Base rate was on Sept. 22 further reduced to 9 per cent ( its lowest level since mid-1988 and the first time since 1981 that it stood below the German Lombard rate ) . |
| 17 | Although only twenty-two houses were represented the syndicat recognised that it stood for the rights of some sixty Champagne houses , virtually the entire trade at the time . |
| 18 | Having been gently reminded by Lady Rutherford , ‘ We are all philanthropists here ; we do not need to put our hands up if we wish to speak ’ , William Morris completely forgot his shyness and at one stage became so carried away that he stood at the front of the room shaking hands with himself . |
| 19 | But Gloucester also insisted throughout that he stood for the continuance of Edward IV 's regime , an emphasis which inevitably played down the political significance of the ‘ outs ’ . |
| 20 | But Gloucester also insisted throughout that he stood for the continuance of Edward IV 's regime , an emphasis which inevitably played down the political significance of the ‘ outs ’ . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Willie lay in bed that night , tired and aching , but the aches were very pleasant ones and as he slept he dreamt that Adam and Eve were being chased by a large whale and that he stood in the garden of Eden wondering if God was nubbly and ate infinite sauce and sagacity . |
| 24 | It is said that he stood before the altar and for a moment the Blade called to him . |
| 25 | I saw him a few times more after that , in the months that followed , coming slowly up the lane from the station , as Millie and I stood at the gate . |
| 26 | Twenty pleasant minutes retraced the morning 's steps and I stood beside the Land Rover waving goodbye and listening to the blue van 's familiar toots as it continued north . |
| 27 | You only got one shot — this was live television — and I stood in the wings , rigid with fear , listening to my heart booming . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | She called again , moving out through the gate until she stood at the top of the lower garden that sloped down to the bay . |
| 30 | Nellie Tanner had reached Aggie 's front door and she stood over the dumpy , dark-haired woman . |