Example sentences of "stand [noun prp] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Above the portico stands King Charles II — in Roman attire — remembered for his help in restoring the fire ravaged town . |
| 2 | Across the choppy water from them stands Billingsgate Fish Market , smartened up to tone with the neighbourhood . |
| 3 | In the garden around the museum , designed by Renzo Piano , stands Barnett Newman 's ‘ Broken Obelisk ’ of 1968 , which the city fathers of Houston had turned down as a gift : it was dedicated to the memory of Martin Luther King , murdered that year . |
| 4 | Upstream from here stands Fromebridge Mill . |
| 5 | And secondly , I think the second one is exactly the same as it stands Madam Chairman . |
| 6 | On or near this spot , now next to the Police House , stands Glebe House continuing the old association . |
| 7 | Beyond Forres , in the open countryside , stands Brodie Castle , now a National Trust property , a tall sixteenth-century building on a long-inhabited site , direct from the frames of a Disney film of Rob Roy or Alan Breck . |
| 8 | In the same village stands Staunton Mill , also a three-storey building , which originally had a 20-foot wheel , and is now a private dwelling . |
| 9 | Heading north from Chesterfield on the road to Dronfield , with urban sprawl spreading its way along the valley of the River Drone , you would hardly guess that high on Barrow Hill a mile away stands Hagge Farm , as lost and as completely rural as anything in the country . |
| 10 | Close to Upleadon Court stands Upleadon Mill . |
| 11 | But on the near horizon , immediately beyond Foston 's sheep pastures , stands Wigston Magna , the most populous village in Leicestershire since at least the time of the great Domesday Survey and a world apart from Squire Faunt and his shepherds . |
| 12 | Further upstream , now hemmed in by the Newent bypass and the sewage works , almost cowering under the bypass bridge , in Cleeve Mill lane , stands Cleeve Mill . |
| 13 | ‘ As things stand Mr Patten is minded to turn down the application , but there will be a 21-day stay of execution for appeals . ’ |
| 14 | Ca n't stand Ian Botham |
| 15 | Mrs ca n't stand Neil Kinnock you know |
| 16 | The Prime Minister can not stand Enoch Powell 's steely and accusing eye looking at him across the table any more , and I 've had to move him down the side . ’ |
| 17 | I ca n't stand Jimmy Young . |
| 18 | Political column Gould deserves a vote of thanks for standing Sarah Baxter |
| 19 | On the south , or right flank , stood General Godley 's 2nd Anzac Corps ; in the centre , General Hamilton-Gordon 's 9th Corps ; while on the left , or northern , flank , was General Morland 's 10th Corps . |
| 20 | For there in the gateway , framed in an arch of clematis as purple as her face , stood Miss Lodsworth . |
| 21 | The door opened like a thunderclap , and there stood Miss Hardbroom . |
| 22 | The door opened slowly and there stood Miss Louise . |
| 23 | On either side of him stood Eugene Murphy , Liam 's father and the children 's grandad , and Tim , the barman , in his best clothes . |
| 24 | There stood G. F. Westerby , looking pleased with himself , staring out over the decades , with the mysterious past behind him . |
| 25 | But in the doorway blocking her exit stood Dr Miguel Rafaelo , and her heart sank . |
| 26 | Flinging off the old costume as he turned around , there stood Dr Tehyi Hsieh in white tie and tails , his polished shoes agleam and his black hair slicked back . |
| 27 | At Gorbachev 's side stood Marshall Dmitri Yazov , the defence minister who would later betray him in the attempted coup . |
| 28 | The telephone was on the cash-desk , next to the register , behind which stood Mr Patel . |
| 29 | At the foot of the four-poster , with its lid thrown back , stood Sir Ralph 's huge personal coffer . |
| 30 | At the extreme from Richards stood Sir Charles Reilly , Professor of Architecture at Liverpool . |