Example sentences of "[noun] stood at the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Countess of Donnington stood at the window of the first-floor sitting room , intent on the street below . |
| 2 | ‘ You said someone who had been travelling through snow stood at the back of the church . ’ |
| 3 | Gaveston stood at the end of the gallery , leaning nonchalantly against the wall . |
| 4 | The Feldwebel stood at the entrance to the corridor turning away people who wanted to come in . |
| 5 | The stench which rose from below , to where Ruth stood at the top of the hatchway , was worse than anything she could ever have imagined . |
| 6 | The packing had been done in the basement to avoid break ages , and the two crates stood at the foot of the stairs . |
| 7 | A glass of untasted wine stood at the side of the cake , a round red something at its base . |
| 8 | Penry stood at the foot of the stairs , looking up at her . |
| 9 | Penry stood at the foot of the stairs , frowning as she plugged in the transistor to listen to Radio Four while she ate . |
| 10 | One meeting of particular significance was with a young dissenting bookseller called Joseph Cottle , whose shop stood at the corner of Corn Street and High Street , a few yards from Southey 's birthplace . |
| 11 | Oliver stood at the door of the room . |
| 12 | A year later another branch to Holt , ultimately Cromer , was completed and Melton stood at the centre of a minor railway junction . |
| 13 | A blue Daimler stood at the edge of this area . |
| 14 | Jessamy stood at the window for a very long time . |
| 15 | Our Father 's wife stood at the end of her bunk . |
| 16 | My memories of cardiac teaching rounds are of a dozen students queueing to listen to a murmur while the registrar stood at the end of the bed swinging a stethoscope and staring out of the window . |
| 17 | One hour later , Rose stood at the window of his room looking down at the harbour scene . |
| 18 | Much later Meg stood at the bottom of the slope , looking out across the water . |
| 19 | A battery of guns stood at the edge of the village , some cavalry horses stood unsaddled in the street beyond , and a battalion of infantry was bivouacked in a field to the right of the guns , but otherwise the enemy was hidden , and so Sharpe stuck with his earlier estimate . |
| 20 | A woman stood at the door of the French window , half in the verandah . |
| 21 | With the clean , sanserif layout pioneered as a classic 1960s design by the Observer , Peace News stood at the crossroads of mid 1960s dissident culture . |
| 22 | Li Yuan stood at the edge of the family tablet , the freshly inscribed name of his father cut into the whiteness there . |
| 23 | Stretching and yawning , his daughter stood at the door of Dai Huang 's big house . |
| 24 | At ten-thirty next morning Captain Maestrangelo stood at the window in his office looking down intently at the street . |
| 25 | His football career in ruins , Chapman stood at the threshold of a new decade in a cloud of uncertainty . |
| 26 | The headmaster stood at the front of the class with Jim looking rather embarrassed and announced , |
| 27 | Hal Shepherd stood at the turn of the road , his hands resting lightly on the low stone wall , looking down at the row of cottages and the bay beyond . |
| 28 | The sailor stood at the top of the mast , high above the Captain . |
| 29 | Less than half a century ago the Midland stood at the pinnacle of the financial system , the largest bank in the world . |
| 30 | Fletcher Grange High School stood at the intersection of two main roads , a large , long , white building surrounded by playing fields , lawns , tennis courts , outbuildings and an intricate arrangement of gravel paths . |