Example sentences of "stood at [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By 1886 , two in three adult males — almost 4.5 million people — had the vote in England and Wales , whereas some 50 years earlier the electorate stood at little more than 650 000 . |
| 2 | Conical topped tents , or pavilions , for participating knights and their attendants , stood at each end of the arena . |
| 3 | There is outside the study today a glass cabinet displaying various of Mr Farraday 's ornaments , but throughout Lord Darlington 's days , there stood at that spot a bookshelf containing many volumes of encyclopedia , including a complete set of the Britannica . |
| 4 | As the law stood at that time local authorities could place limits on the number of pupils in each of its schools , and the Secretary of State said that he had no power to intervene in the Dewsbury case . |
| 5 | erm and the North Koreans were going backwards at a vast rate of knots and in came the Chinese the Chinese army , it stood at that time I think at twenty five million men erm and , and Douglas started losing again , sad really is n't it ? |
| 6 | She stood at that door waiting |
| 7 | I stood at that window and watched you for at least two minutes ! |
| 8 | By the end of April 1935 Danzig 's currency reserves stood at less than half of their 1933 figure ; by June the reserve had dropped to less than one-eighth of that figure . |
| 9 | Fand and Liban stood at either side of the door , more stiff and still than ever . |
| 10 | Instead she took a tram to the Pier Head and walked about until the hands of the Cunard clock stood at half past ten . |
| 11 | The Mercury article is a fiction inspired by the erroneous belief that the Eleanor Cross stood at this position . |
| 12 | Whether the production work sharing is something that is still to be decided er at the start of that phase but on the equipment , we were er originally entitled to thirty three percent of the common equipment er when we last gave evidence to the committee the U K work share for equipment stood at some thirty six percent of those that had been selected at that time . |