Example sentences of "stood a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a buffet across the top of which was ranged a set of blue and white plates of equally antique origin and in the middle of the table stood a Georgian silver chafing dish . |
| 2 | Against one wall stood a battered chest covered with donkey-skin , with several pairs of old slippers beside it and a patched travelling cloak thrown on top . |
| 3 | In addition to this , as if to put modern technology in perspective , stood a wide , leather-trimmed green blotter , a traditional brass and onyx pen-stand , a leather-backed memo pad , and a revolving set of index cards . |
| 4 | In the fire-comer stood a black-and-white goat , with knobby little horns and eyes like yellow glass , and on the hearth lay a very large cat , a multi-coloured , mazy-patterned brindled cat , that looked up at the little tailor with eyes like cold green jewels , with black slits for pupils . |
| 5 | By the fire stood a dirty child . |
| 6 | Behind the counter stood a young man who smiled broadly when he saw her . |
| 7 | Outside stood a young man in oilskins , the hood blowing back from a soaking tangle of brown hair blackened by the rain , and one hand gripping a duffel bag . |
| 8 | On the roof of one of the cars stood a young man in battle-dress , his gun at the ready , staring out into the darkness . |
| 9 | In the centre of the group , with one of John of Gaunt 's hands on his shoulder , stood a young boy , his face white as snow under a mop of golden hair , a silver chaplet on his head . |
| 10 | She looked across to a bureau on which stood a framed certificate for TV Presenter of the Year Award . |
| 11 | To the right was another door ; beside this one stood a uniformed man in what looked like a Securicor outfit . |
| 12 | There stood a strong wooden house , big enough for forty people , and with holes for guns on every side . |
| 13 | On this , amongst the few trees growing there , stood a low dark building which , in the fading light , had a desolate , sinister air . |
| 14 | Off to one side of the house stood a low whitewashed building originally used as stables and later as a garage , but which , after much industrious clearing , cleaning and the application of repeated coats of apricot-white emulsion now did duty as studio-cum-shop . |
| 15 | Near that door stood a strange-looking table , the top of which he lifted . |
| 16 | Against one wall stood a grand armchair made with books and tied together with string . |
| 17 | There stood a grand piano and a BMW . |
| 18 | Yanto was pointing across the valley to the next hill , on top of which stood a tall ancient tower with turreted ramparts . |
| 19 | Outside a low , white cement building with a radio aerial stood a tall negro with distinctly West African features , wearing the neatly pressed uniform of an inspector in the Carabiñeros National . |
| 20 | In the centre of the hut stood a tall coke stove , blackened from use , deep in dust , and its chimney stack climbed to the ceiling and through its open hatch there was the glow of fuel working out a second day 's burning . |
| 21 | On the uppermost landing , flanked by warders , stood a tall , powerfully-built figure in a dark blue suit , his greying hair slicked back so severely it appeared that he was bald . |
| 22 | In the door stood a tall , mournful-looking islander . |
| 23 | On that hill , with the moon behind him , stood a tall , thin man . |
| 24 | I followed her gaze down the long empty platform and there at the other end stood a tall figure . |
| 25 | High upon another roof-top , not so far distant , stood a tall dramatic-looking figure robed in black . |
| 26 | And before him , upon an altar table , flanked by sword bearers , stood a tall wild-eyed figure . |
| 27 | Beside Benedicta stood a tall man , his features quite clear in the torchlight . |
| 28 | We simply drove over Mount Lebanon on the Damascus highway , turned a corner west of Chtaura where silver birches ran beside the road and there , quite casually , stood a Syrian soldier in combat fatigues , rifle over his shoulder , cigarette in his mouth , a swaggerstick covered in snakeskin in his right hand . |
| 29 | ‘ In the concreted yard at the back of the flats at Water Eaton Road stood a light-weight , rubber-wheeled , aluminium wheelbarrow which one of the maintenance men had been using earlier that day . |
| 30 | On the bank , stood a small man , dressed in a stained old raincoat , wearing a flat cap , fishing tackle packed in an ex-army gas-mask carrier . |