Example sentences of "it stood the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Beyond it stood the young squire who brought him , the smoking tube in his hand , his face stamped with rage and with loathing . |
| 2 | Behind it stood the international gold standard . |
| 3 | In the centre of the room there was a portrait of a very beautiful young man , and in front of it stood the artist himself , Basil Hallward . |
| 4 | Next to it stood the engine which ran it , and the engineer . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Below it stood the childhood doll 's house she had intended to renovate for posterity and the guitar whose broken strings had halted her on the path to world fame as a singer of gypsy ballads , in a costume of scarlet and yellow sewn with little mirrors . |