Example sentences of "[noun] and stood [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suddenly , a girl aged about 16 walked up from one of the scattered houses in the village and stood in the same spot he intended to use for his photography . |
| 2 | Willie pulled off the weighted shoes and stood in the dark hallway shivering helplessly , his teeth rattling inside his clamped jaw . |
| 3 | In 1880 he had had a political fling and stood as a Liberal candidate for the City of London in favour of disestablishment , temperance legislation , social and political reform . |
| 4 | The threw back the bedclothes , shed her clinging nightgown and stood under a cool shower until she began to come alive . |
| 5 | Edward and Helen approached the sycamore tree and stood before the raw earth of Dorothy 's grave . |
| 6 | I replaced the blanket over his head and stood for a few moments looking at the bodies in their neat little rows . |
| 7 | The phone call finished , Jack Stone buttoned up his heavy jacket and stood in the darkened box , for a moment , peering through the windows at the desolate streets around him . |
| 8 | Cecilia went down the steps at West Hampstead station and stood on the lefthand platform waiting for the train to come down from Kilburn . |
| 9 | Cassie crossed the grass and stood by the little gate . |
| 10 | They scrambled over the rabbit netting and stood on the muddy track , flushed and panting , mud stains on their legs and clothes . |
| 11 | She put away the car , quietly locked the garage door and stood for a few moments looking out over the valley . |
| 12 | He marched to the lounge and stood by the large bay window , glaring at her furnishings . |
| 13 | Of a sudden the room was quiet , and when she turned from the mirror and stood before the three elderly sisters , it could almost be said there were tears in their eyes , and in her own . |
| 14 | Severed eyes are best potted individually in good clean garden soil and stood in a shallow bowl of water with their growing points submerged . |
| 15 | She went up to her room , put the Diary in her drawer and stood for a long time , breathing on the window and drawing faces . |
| 16 | He dropped his hands to his sides and stood like a little dog , found out , and admitting : ‘ Yes , I know I have a silly sort of fancy for Lal . |
| 17 | Virginia pushed her bike on to the grass-verge and stood under the heavy foliage of the trees for shelter . |
| 18 | One night when the last streamers had shivered away against the dawn sky , leaving its heaven blue merely bland , she walked away from her colony and stood at the furthest tip of the ice sheet . |
| 19 | In 1940 Roosevelt broke with tradition and stood for a third term of office . |