Example sentences of "[conj] they stood [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sarah 's mother and grandmother had followed her so they stood in a group on the step with several neighbours adding their congratulations . |
| 2 | He took off his glasses and put his arms around her waist , and they stood for a while facing one another . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He had met him on his way to the stables , and they stood in a yard which was busy with blacksmiths and farriers . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The other two men were hit by the two gunmen as they stood on a nearby footpath at the spot where black taxis operate up and down Belfast 's Falls Road . |
| 7 | A six inch deep channel of water still flowed over their wader clad feet as they stood in a rough circle looking down at something in the mud . |
| 8 | At least 13 protesters were killed , most of them run over by tanks as they stood in a human cordon trying to defend the building , and 230 were injured ; a soldier also died , shot by one of his own men . |