Example sentences of "stood the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the end of one of the avenues stood the Santuario della Madonna del Rosario , a large seventeenth-century church which was a famous place of pilgrimage . |
| 2 | There in front of him , holding the empty medicine bottle , stood the Bookman ! |
| 3 | Between the two factions stood the Wyrmberg 's hereditary Loremaster . |
| 4 | We here crossed to the other side of the road , near to the Workhouse , and soon passed ( on the left ) a row of small houses called Cook 's Row , and a little further on another row — Church Row — at the northern end of which stood the Adam & Eve Inn with its attached Tea gardens . |
| 5 | Next door to Tullivers stood the Baileys ' house . |
| 6 | But ahead , beyond all this minor geology , stood the Pacific Ocean , painted blinding gold by the sun , but endless and vast , and terribly , terribly deep . |
| 7 | There stood the Shah , impeccable as ever in a well-cut grey suit and rather loud time ramrod straight , his face , always , expressionless before the cold white stare of his father . |
| 8 | Joint third prize was won by London-based Allies and Morrison , two Edinburgh University architecture graduates who a few years earlier won the Edinburgh Mound Competition : one short-listed design from Midlothian was that by Duffy and Batt which stood the Glasgow salmon on its tail . |
| 9 | Near the Park , just on the edge of a tangled network of streets full of bed-and-breakfast houses , stood the Tivoli Theatre . |