Example sentences of "[be] stand at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For one moment , when the right hon. Gentleman first rose to speak , and given that he will not be standing at the next election , I thought that Daniel had come to judgment and that the right hon. Gentleman was going to show some concern for those who seek asylum in this country and who have fled from oppressive regimes that were supported by the Government of which he was happily a Cabinet member for so many years . |
| 2 | RICHARD and EMMA are standing at the front door of a rambling , untidy , Edwardian Mansion . |
| 3 | As she had come round the corner of the house from putting her bicycle in the old stable block , Inspector Blakelock had been standing at the front door almost as if he were waiting for her . |
| 4 | Three or four people without seats were standing at the far dome car end , including the actress Angelica . |
| 5 | Two men were standing at the further end of the clearing shooting at a wand . |
| 6 | A policeman was standing at the other end of the alley . |
| 7 | his school uniform , strip naked , was standing at the other end of the pool did n't say anything , Al Alistair , deaf guy |
| 8 | When they went in Marc was standing at the high-arched window at the far end of a long refectory made sepulchral by huge arching beams of dark oak . |
| 9 | She was standing at the front edge of the stage with the microphone hanging from one limp hand by the outside of her right thigh . |
| 10 | Mme Guérigny was standing at the front door , her head pushed back , shouting up to the attic window for Jean-Claude . |
| 11 | A detective-constable was standing at the front door with the detached watchfulness of a man paid to endure boredom but ready to leap into action should , unaccountably , the boredom end . |
| 12 | Now I was standing at the closed door listening to his absence . |
| 13 | Yvonne was standing at the far end of the room in her red tent dress , her arms extended , a glass of brandy glimmering in one hand . |
| 14 | T'zin was standing at the far end , and Jotan and Nogai were circling one another in the wide space of one of the loose boxes . |
| 15 | She was standing at the far end of the room , waiting for him . |
| 16 | She climbed up again , then ran along the shoreline until she was standing at the nearest point to it . |
| 17 | Ralph Salperton was standing at the living-room window . |
| 18 | Martin was standing at the furthermost edge of the terrace , looking over the gardens and down to the sea . |
| 19 | He was standing at the open window in his pyjamas , the shotgun in his hand , staring out at the front field where the black splash of a jackdaw lay on the white ground beneath the ash tree . |