Example sentences of "stood [prep] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | The observer loves knowledge for its own sake , but Jesus stood against this attitude . |
| 2 | Early one morning , in the merry month of May , I stood in this dining room watching a group of climbers from all over the world being introduced to The Great Tradition . |
| 3 | My mind cast back to the winter of last November when I stood on this same platform awaiting the arrival of a new intake . |
| 4 | The nine years that had elapsed since she last stood on this spot could have been a dream . |
| 5 | IN A HOUSE WHICH STOOD ON THIS SITE ’ . |
| 6 | A farmhouse probably stood on this site at the time of the Great Plague . |
| 7 | For though it stands so isolated today from human kind , St Mary 's church was a mother-church for a wide area round about , as befitted the spiritual centre of a royal estate ; and we do not know how far back a building stood on this site . |
| 8 | As my companion remarked , the oldies are goldies and you ca n't get much ( g ) older than ‘ I stood on this stage 30 years ago and I was so successful they 've asked me back tonight . ’ |
| 9 | While a small number of individuals in Elizabethan England stood outside this Calvinist consensus , as Nicholas Tyacke has commented : ‘ it is not an exaggeration to say that by the end of the sixteenth century the Church of England was largely Calvinist in doctrine . ’ |
| 10 | The Mercury article is a fiction inspired by the erroneous belief that the Eleanor Cross stood at this position . |