Example sentences of "[conj] stood [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had never used an iron nor threaded a needle , been on a bus nor cooked a meal for other people , earned money , got up early because she had to , waited to see the doctor or stood in a queue . |
| 2 | Here , there was no ambiguity ; no difficulty over marriage or courtship ; no women at all but the camp-followers , or the whores who were for sale , with other merchandise , from the second , vagabond camp that stood as a fringe to the first . |
| 3 | Harry put in 410 League appearances for Crystal Palace and that stood as a record for over 30 years until it was overtaken by Terry Long in the late 1960s . |
| 4 | Barbara Molland had found the box in a trunk that stood under the window in Kate 's room . |
| 5 | He leaned against the radiator that stood under the window . |
| 6 | Coffee had been brought in a huge white porcelain pot and matching white cups arranged around the white-painted table that stood at the edge of a huge paved terrace overlooking the endless sparkling blue sea . |
| 7 | She took an instinctive step back and brushed against a small marble horse that stood on a pedestal . |
| 8 | Agnes now went into the back room and , after washing her hands in a bowl of water that stood on a bench , she dried them , then smoothed her hair back and adjusted the bow at the neck of her dress . |
| 9 | He turned to reach the two glasses of wine that stood on a bedside table ; he 'd brought them with him from the dinner table . |
| 10 | Radnor Park , Mount Blow , the Holy City were blasted by incendiaries , and a solitary ME 109 flew up Kilbowie Road strafing the tram that stood on the swing bridge by the canal . |
| 11 | After an hour he came to a small roadside inn that stood on the crest of a shallow hill and , twisting in his saddle , he saw that the inn gave him a good view of the road right to the horizon so that he would see any French pursuit long before it represented any danger . |
| 12 | Already she had inspected the house that stood on the edge of the sea loch . |
| 13 | He told her Great-Uncle Hilbert 's ashes were the contents of an urn-shaped Crown Derby sweets-jar that stood on the drawing-room mantelpiece . |
| 14 | She had thought the department store that stood opposite the theatre unassailable in its pale-green elegance . |
| 15 | Retreating until she bumped into a Spanish walnut table that stood before a window , she put her arms back to lean on the table , then decided that her position might look inviting , folded her arms , and scowled at Sam . |
| 16 | He followed Martin to the drinks cabinet that stood in a corner of the hall . |
| 17 | It was a big room with a high , moulded ceiling and a draped bed that stood in the middle of it like a throne . |
| 18 | Miss Honey paused and leaned back in her chair behind the plain table that stood in the middle of the floor in front of the class . |
| 19 | only resolutions that stood in the name of the Edinburgh branch was dealt with by some of these delegates . |
| 20 | She immediately fell into conversation with Jack as they waited to board the mini-bus that stood in the centre of the courtyard , ready to transport them to the Parc de Prafance with its famous forest of bamboo . |
| 21 | All that stood in the way of victory was a touch of bad luck . |
| 22 | I met the French and Moroccan men who changed and broke the deadlock between their countries that stood in the way of Morocco 's independence ; and in Nigeria we know that pioneer freedom fighter of Africa , Azikiwe , whose miraculous change of direction , and reconciliation with his political enemies , averted a Mau Mau uprising in the 1950's . |
| 23 | Well my pal and myself we took these two girls and we sat in the middle of the Temperance Hall and he said come on let's sit over on the balcony he says and put up my clothes by the radiator he says it 's been raining he says and it will dry them , so we moved , and exactly from were we moved was where the women got killed , just candelabra dropped on her and er when it happened the fella on the stage the comedian was singing , a hundred years from now you wo n't be here , and I wo n't be here and from the corner of my eye I could see something gradually dropping like one of these candelabras and I thought hello that 's part of the act you know , it was just gradually coming down and all of a sudden , whooosh and the roof came straight in oh and I do n't know sure I 'd I , everything went dark of course I mean it was all in blacked-out all the chairs were loose , so as the folks wended their way towards the exit doors they took the chairs with them , so they politely threw them back in the crowd that stood in the hall so you were dodging chairs as well as trying to get out , where we were , where we were seated the firemen were hacking at the windows thinking that it was a fire because all the dust had gone up in the air and the reflection of the light from the market I suppose and that would give the appearance of smoke , and he was , I said to this fireman I said there 's no fire , he says , he says there is I said there 's no fire in here , anyway we eventually got out but I took these girls back home to and I really , it was , properly unnerved us both and as we came on that old tram we were , we thought you know everything seemed to sort of upset us and when I got far more upset on the Sunday morning when I went to have a look at it , the whole roof had come right in , but there were fifty people got injured you know and about , oh there was one lady killed . |
| 24 | Alexandra went over to the long glass on a mahogany frame that stood in the bow window and looked at herself . |
| 25 | Then , without bothering to wait for her answer , he had swung round again and was heading imperiously for the group of gold-brocade-covered armchairs that stood in the curve of the huge bay window , overlooking the sun-burnished waters of Loch Lomond . |
| 26 | Her heart was still at Framlingham Hall , the house that stood in the shadow of the great castle with thirteen towers , built by Roger Bigod in the year 1177 . |
| 27 | Clare helped her into a black car that stood by the kerb with its door open . |
| 28 | Victorine tossed them into the plastic waste bowl that stood by the side of the sink . |
| 29 | So I sat down on a chair that stood by the counter and looked around the shop while waiting for Mary to emerge from behind the colourful painted screen where she was trying things on . |
| 30 | They thrust him stumbling up a winding stairway cut in the rock , and along another passage into a large , smoky room , blackened and bare but for certain engines and implements that stood against the walls , and a low brazier in the centre . |