Example sentences of "[conj] stood [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Picking up the tray , she carried it out to the kitchen and put the kettle on the small bottled-gas stove that stood beside the huge , cold , black range . |
| 2 | A maintenance man , with a garden fork and wheelbarrow , was tending the herbaceous border that stretched along the frontage of the flats and , in response to Morse 's question , he said he was one of a small team that looked after the three blocks of flats that stood on the eastern side of Water Eaton Road . |
| 3 | ‘ Do n't bully me with your logic and your jargon , Tom ! ’ snapped Faye , reaching automatically for the brimming glass of sweet juice that stood on the small table beside her . |
| 4 | Lucy crawled out of bed around lunchtime , found her way up to the shower while Josie could be heard moving around in the kitchen , and could n't resist leaving aside her own hard soap and supermarket shampoo in order to freeload a few squirts and squeezes of the gels , mousses and lotions that stood on the tiled windowsill . |
| 5 | Some tanned the leather in season , or boiled down hoof and horn in the great vats that stood inside the ramshackle building of the tannery itself . |
| 6 | At the same time a balaclava-masked soldier rolled in through the window where the stun grenade had come from , his Kalashnikov automatic aimed at the dummy that stood by the opposite window . |
| 7 | She lifted her feet , one by one , pressed them down on to the boot-scraper that stood by the back door . |
| 8 | They took no notice of him and stood on the front step , talking in low voices . |
| 9 | Cecilia went down the steps at West Hampstead station and stood on the lefthand platform waiting for the train to come down from Kilburn . |
| 10 | They scrambled over the rabbit netting and stood on the muddy track , flushed and panting , mud stains on their legs and clothes . |
| 11 | He went and stood over the crumpled heap that was Luke . |
| 12 | She should have avoided the Glass House , but she went there at every opportunity , and stood beside the streaming panes with her eyes closed , willing herself to capture something . |
| 13 | Virginia pushed her bike on to the grass-verge and stood under the heavy foliage of the trees for shelter . |
| 14 | Willie pulled off the weighted shoes and stood in the dark hallway shivering helplessly , his teeth rattling inside his clamped jaw . |
| 15 | He inserted the key almost furtively and stood in the small vestibule and smelt the place — floor polish mixed with the bitter scent of chrysanthemums in a blue bowl . |
| 16 | The phone call finished , Jack Stone buttoned up his heavy jacket and stood in the darkened box , for a moment , peering through the windows at the desolate streets around him . |
| 17 | He marched to the lounge and stood by the large bay window , glaring at her furnishings . |
| 18 | He motioned an unwilling Adjutant and Sergeant out ahead of him and stood by the open door , frowning so deeply that Clarissa would have followed if Charity had n't risked leaving her defences and staked all on a final devastating attack . |
| 19 | He stopped , staring at her , appalled by the likeness , then went across and stood by the open hatchway , looking outwards , his neat-cut hair barely moving in the icy wind . |
| 20 | Cassie crossed the grass and stood by the little gate . |
| 21 | She had showered and washed her hair , dabbed on her favourite Anaïs Anaïs , and stood before the long mirror in her bedroom , criticising her reflection . |
| 22 | Edward and Helen approached the sycamore tree and stood before the raw earth of Dorothy 's grave . |