Example sentences of "[noun] standing [adv] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A horse standing perfectly in the show ring , with its ears nicely pricked , may indicate that it is cross by pressing its lips tightly together , as if it is refusing some nasty-tasting medicine . |
| 2 | The taut legs standing out from the body at all angles , some hideously broken like twigs thrown carelessly on a bonfire , others still moving feebly . |
| 3 | He pushed open the arched wooden door of his house and went in , leaving Ruth standing out on the terrace . |
| 4 | Seb opened the door to find Melody standing outside in the darkness . |
| 5 | It 's the nicest site around and from the surrounding countryside you 'd have seen the white mounds of the burial sites standing out against the sky , right against the heavens |
| 6 | She would have rung him , if it had n't been for the tall constable standing meaningfully by the telephone . |
| 7 | At the same time the building of what were to become bastions , towers standing out from the line of the wall , enabled defenders to fire all round , and in particular laterally , against approaching men or machines , as the design for Bodiam Castle in Sussex , which , like Cooling Castle in Kent , was built at the time of the French invasion scares of the 1380s , clearly shows . |
| 8 | Showered and changed , she went back into the gym and found Fräulein Silber standing modestly in the background while , very much in the foreground were Herr Wolf , from the National Stadium , and Fräulein Carow . |
| 9 | The English heritage is rich and , of these buildings standing all over the country , many retain a considerable Romanesque portion . |
| 10 | The Laurels was a very nice house on the edge of the town standing back from the road in a large garden . |
| 11 | They entered the trench , leaving Astorre and Thomas and Pesaro standing silently at the entrance . |
| 12 | The Deluxe is one of two machines standing just inside the door . |
| 13 | I glance up and see Lucker standing there on the bridge . |
| 14 | It is as if the Poet were tackling time face to face , confronting , wrestling with time , with his Friend standing apart as the prize in the competition . |
| 15 | The present day building has a small western tower and 12th century nave standing away from the road on the edge of a wood . |
| 16 | Going north along Corso Venezia you reach Palazzo Fontana-Silvestri standing almost opposite the entrance to the Semanario Arcivescovile . |
| 17 | The more he thought of the two carpet-baggers standing up at the podium , the more intense the pains in his head became . |
| 18 | At least The Mission have n't turned into redundant dinosaurs like those bastards The Cult , although ‘ Hands Across The Ocean ’ is fairly ordinary goff fare with only Hussey 's clear cut vocals standing out of the mix . |
| 19 | At least The Mission have n't turned into redundant dinosaurs like those bastards The Cult , although ‘ Hands Across The Ocean ’ is fairly ordinary goff fare with only Hussey 's clear cut vocals standing out of the mix . |
| 20 | There were people standing all along the back , and down the sides . |
| 21 | Buckmaster jumped up suddenly , left his chair standing away from the table . |
| 22 | In the north can be found lush greenery standing out in the bottom of the valleys that carve down through the mountains , and fields of banana plantations standing against the backdrop of Mount Teide , the island 's dormant volcano . |
| 23 | This is particularly the case when as here , they are preserved in dark shales , the white calcite of the animal 's skeleton standing out against the background . |
| 24 | The form is a basin supported on three stout legs and with two big ring-handles standing upright on the rim , these often supported by human figures and crowned by a horse . |
| 25 | The door was opened by the clergyman 's daughter , who ran off terrified when she saw the fearsome-looking tramp standing docilely on the pavement . |
| 26 | This mill was built of brick instead of stone like the Old Mill in the village , and the original six-storey building survives among the extensions built around it , with Arkwright 's peculiar staircase projection with Venetian and small semi-circular windows standing out from the sea of square-headed windows on either side , and with a cupola above . |
| 27 | Morse had knocked his shin against a large suitcase standing just inside the door , and for a moment he squeezed his eyes tight , the whiles giving quiet voice to a blasphemous imprecation . |
| 28 | In daylight the mound is still to be seen and is worth the climb for views of the sea , the plain of Holderness , and the village itself with the church standing proudly at the west end of the village . |
| 29 | All around my rooftop pavilion could be seen other fragmentary remains of the Jahanpanah which Ibn Battuta would have known : a series of fragile mediaeval islands standing out amid the sea of modern sprawl . |
| 30 | It was then that he noticed Whitlock standing discreetly in the background . |