Example sentences of "stood [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From where she stood the downward slope and the valley below were clearly visible . |
| 2 | Far around , on all sides , stood the orderly rows of beans , securing them against hostile approach , roofing them over and covering their scent . |
| 3 | Beyond it stood the young squire who brought him , the smoking tube in his hand , his face stamped with rage and with loathing . |
| 4 | Behind the creation stood the familiar figure of Lloyd George who in the previous December had formed a coalition with himself as Prime Minister to replace the previous government of Herbert Asquith which had become discredited by criticisms of its conduct of the war . |
| 5 | She got out and looked about to see that there across the road , in an area where buildings were few and far between , stood the welcoming sight of a small hotel and restaurant . |
| 6 | But when Flavia turned into the Fourniers ' drive she saw that she had been spared that errand as well , for there , shining , immobile , unconcerned , stood the long car . |
| 7 | She stepped forward and discovered , sitting at a desk which stood the right way up , a small dark man . |
| 8 | No one was there , but on the table stood the mutilated globe , the ink and ruler . |
| 9 | Where once stood the two-storey Eagle Warehouse of 1854 there is now a 12-storey tower with an entrance foyer of sufficient height to engulf the surviving bays of the original building . |
| 10 | Behind Leonard Arthur , however , stood the vast majority of the general public , who flooded him with letters of support during the trial . |
| 11 | Behind the police stood the vast , ninety-thousand-seater Olympic Stadium . |
| 12 | In the doorway stood the solid bulk of Dalziel . |
| 13 | But in doing so , he stood the traditional ‘ toxic mix ’ theory on its head by claiming that prison order was rendered unstable by young inmates serving short sentences , even suggesting that at Wymott ‘ a more stable inmate population might have been achieved if the predominantly young and short-term population had been diluted with some older men or those with longer to serve ’ ( para 7.09 ) . |
| 14 | He helped them into the railway coach , stood the dark lantern on the floor , checked the blinds and curtains with the torch , slammed the carriage door and flooded the whole place with good old-fashioned electric light . |
| 15 | Behind it stood the international gold standard . |
| 16 | Behind much of the theology of the nineteenth century stood the towering figures of Kant and Hegel . |
| 17 | At Deirdre 's elbow stood the faithless Jonathan Headleand , who was trying to explain to his stepmother 's first husband Edgar why he 'd decided , after all his protests , to follow in his father 's footsteps , while simultaneously trying to keep one eye on Deirdre ( for whom he felt responsible ) and the other on his girlfriend Kate Williams who was being harangued by a Tory backbencher about Marxist infiltration of the Open University . |
| 18 | Behind the policy of imperial expansion stood the sinister figure of the financier engaged not in honest trade but in channelling the surplus product of British industry into overseas investment . |
| 19 | Next to the bed , on a small table , stood the Golden Rose sent by the Pope in 1856 to mark the birth of the Prince Imperial . |
| 20 | At one end stood the Imperial Throne over which hung a purple baldaquin at the top of which was a golden Imperial eagle . |
| 21 | Behind the table stood the tall middle-aged man who had spoken to me . |
| 22 | Far below , in the street opposite the 550 building , stood the tall statue of the Garment Worker , strangely distorted from this angle , and around the plinth on which it stood ant-like figures of vagrants and layabouts sat , oblivious to the cold . |
| 23 | Behind you stood the tall windows , in fives , and the glimpsed interiors always the colour of watery gravy . |
| 24 | At the Point stood the black and white lighthouse and the coast guard station , silhouetted now , for dusk was falling fast and it had turned chilly . |
| 25 | Bold and clear , on my right and ahead of us , stood the craggy Blue Stack Mountains , rearing their heads in strange volcanic attitudes . |
| 26 | From where he stood the pungent smell of frying onion was easily detectable . |
| 27 | There on the other side stood the small square where the Lebanese parliament had once met . |
| 28 | In it stood the small , slight figure of the head verger , his silver hair and babyish complexion at odds with each other , as , indeed , was his black suit of the gentleman 's gentleman variety and his rather springy gymnast 's step . |
| 29 | At its top stood the unfinished Temple of the Moon : including six reddish monoliths the size of upended trucks knit by narrow columns of stone . |
| 30 | Beside the school stood the little school house , and beside that a row of small cottages . |