Example sentences of "stand [prep] one " in BNC.
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| 1 | The usual characters of the two composers are reversed here ; there is little of the English scene-painter in Britten 's Sonata , and it stands as one of his most nervous and angry works . |
| 2 | If you 're interested in standing for any of those or wan na put someone forward to stand for one of those , come to the elections in room six two three , six two four Friday the twenty sixth at two fifteen twenty third , I 'm sorry , at two fifteen and er not only will you get all the , the general info about what I 've done so far this year , what I intend to do , what next year 's budget 's going to be etcetera , that 's when those elections are actually held . |
| 3 | He entered the terminal building , then returned to stand with one hand on his haunch , the other sheltering his eyes to the right , then the left , where Delia Sutherland was sitting on her suitcase , unaccountably invisible to him . |
| 4 | The brick-built Methodist chapel stands in one of the side lanes of the village . |
| 5 | The Pazzaglini family are the friendly hosts at the Hotel Tiffany which stands in one of the quietest , greenest parts of Cattolica . |
| 6 | Without taking hold of me , she forced me to stand in one spot of my own will , while she whipped me on all sides . |
| 7 | Simply nervous trainers tend to stand in one spot , feeted feet rooted like a tree to the ground . |
| 8 | Oh you , Dinda you 've got to stand in one place . |
| 9 | bu and when you it you have to stand in one place going like that and being , and if you touch anybody else and do that and try and get all the people . |
| 10 | right the royal personage stands to one side and smiles so you know we could could come in for this . |
| 11 | Tayloes , or Belvedere Mill , in Chalford stands on one of the oldest confirmed mill sites in the Chalford Valley and is one of the most picturesque . |
| 12 | The Mamur Zapt stands on one side of you , the Man on the other . |
| 13 | He smiled effusively , gave a mock bow , and went to stand beside one of the thrones . |
| 14 | The Muslims believe that the spot marks Adam 's punishment for disobedience and that here he was made to stand on one foot for a very long time . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'm — I 'm sorry , ’ Chesarynth said automatically , trying to look as though it were normal to stand on one leg with her skirt round her knees . |
| 16 | When I returned to the palace with my boxes , I was able to stand on one box on one side of the wall and step on to the other box on the other side . |
| 17 | The Chinese believe that to stand on one leg while kicking with the other unbalances the practitioner and places him at a disadvantage . |
| 18 | Everyone stands at one end of the pool , and when it is time to start I swim to the end of the pool and come back . |
| 19 | Ben Nevis stands at one end of the greatest mountain range in the Highlands , buttressing a grand array of ten Munros with altitudes above or near 4000 feet and forming an unbroken high skyline for several miles . |
| 20 | The box stands at one end of a parcel of land upon which there is a complete turnout and associated signals . |
| 21 | The church is built close to the edge of the bluff , which falls an overgrown eighty or ninety feet down into the wide bed of the gave or river ; and the view up or downstream is dignified further by the curtain wall of the medieval Tour Monréal , that stands at one corner of the small square in front of the church . |
| 22 | Inflation 's fallen again to a new thirty year low , and now stands at one point two percent , down from one point three percent . |
| 23 | Everyone stands at one end of the room with their eggs in front of them on the floor . |
| 24 | Each team stands at one end of the room , in a line , one behind the other , facing the opposite end . |
| 25 | It 's because payments are automatically linked to inflation , which now stands at one point eight per cent . |
| 26 | The official death toll now stands at one hundred and twenty with fifty-three people , including one American , injured . |
| 27 | I recall her pacing the sitting-room while I am doing my homework , pausing every so often to stand at one of the windows and look down into the busy street below . |
| 28 | The inflation rate has fallen to its lowest in twenty-five years to stand at one point seven per cent . |
| 29 | Also , you will no doubt be aware that video tapes and their cassettes come in various formats , and that the initials VHS , for instance , stand for one of the most popular of these . |
| 30 | You can prove this for yourself : stand with one leg off the ground so that you are balanced on one leg , and then just close your eyes . |