Example sentences of "[be] stand at [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I 'll be standing at a bus stop and people will come up to me and tell me what they do and do n't like about fashion today ’ , he says .
2 And thus it was , that February evening , that she came to be standing at the top of the monumental sweep of the staircase , under the huge doorway , pausing for a moment , offering tribute to herself and all her gods .
3 Gomer would be standing at the top of the steps , lounging against the porch pillars ; an ogre with his two-tailed knotted whip .
4 Everything had an improvised , random air about it , as if people had erected new machines just where they happened to be standing at the time , next to the debris of the old .
5 I 'm stood at the tee throwing the clubs up in the air and whooping away and he just turns to me and says , ‘ Do n't get too excited , Jacky .
6 Awareness may come easily when you are experiencing the wonder of growing a plant from seed — it is a little less in the forefront of your mind when you are standing at the kitchen sink doing the washing up .
7 But , I told myself , by the time you are standing at the airport terminal ( not the train or the bus station ) , you have burned off the top ones and , come on , lad , you can afford to relax a little .
8 She guessed that he had been standing at the window or listening for the sound of her key in the lock .
9 For the past hour we had been standing at the top of a Norfolk heath in swirling snow .
10 He 'd spent most of the evening wrestling with the one fragment that he 'd managed to retain , picked out of the air behind him as he 'd been standing at the cooker watching his soup boil .
11 Several humans with official-looking trousers and big boots were standing at the bottom of the ramp .
12 There was nobody else except two strangers who were standing at the back of the church .
13 They were standing at the bar with their first glasses of wine in front of them .
14 About an hour later it arrived but we were standing at the bar when we had er ordered it .
15 They were standing at the desk by now and the girl was working on the bill .
16 Martha and Mrs Medlock were standing at the door , staring at Mary , their mouths half open .
17 But now they were standing at the head of a deep valley in the moor with their ears and tails down .
18 ‘ I am the Conservatives ’ Jeremy Irons , ’ he murmured as apologetically as if he were standing at the rostrum with a brand new Oscar .
19 Ten minutes later , they were standing at the window of the cutler 's shop .
20 The cows were standing at the entrance to a small byre , while the farmer poured a purple fluid from a bucket into their wounds .
21 The statue , by Philip Jackson , vice-president of the Royal Society of British Sculptors , is to stand at the museum 's entrance gates .
22 His wife is standing at the window , looking out at the rain .
23 An Officer is standing at the entrance and directing the units to certain parts of the farm ; he has a strong Scottish accent .
24 perhaps , he thought as he followed Maisie down the front path , it was that he knew them only as fathers , as people whose primary function was to stand at the edge of swimming pools , dank gymnasia or football fields , their collective manhoods bruised by nurture , blurring with age and helpless love .
25 She had her back to the door and was standing at a filing-cabinet taking out more information she would need when she heard her assistant come back .
26 Wishart felt as if he was standing at a crossroads with two paths leading into the darkness .
27 The twenty-nine year old victim was standing at a bus stop on Haddington Road when a car pulled up and the driver asked for directions .
28 A firm , insistent hand between my shoulder-blades pushed me further into the room ; my feet moved , but my body refused to follow and I realised I was standing at an angle .
29 ‘ He was standing at the bar , having a drink , when he suddenly collapsed . ’
30 Moonlight was pouring over the valley , black and silver , and presently Lugh was standing at the edge of the forest , looking down into the shallow dip that sheltered the great Manor of Tara .
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