Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] stand [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was surprised therefore , after drawing his gun and edging out carefully , to find himself standing in the deserted mortuary room where he had introduced the three travellers to Howard . |
| 2 | Once when giving a criticism at the College he found himself standing beside a cold radiator . |
| 3 | Willie found himself standing in a large field . |
| 4 | Then darkness enfolded her , and she found herself standing on a solid surface in a shadowed room , staring upwards at the underside of the dimple with a strange sense of having been reborn . |
| 5 | She found herself standing on a wide terrace , with steps that led away from the house . |
| 6 | Benny found herself standing in a smooth-floored entryway that opened on to the docks about ten feet further on . |
| 7 | ‘ Well , I imagined him standing on a wee planet about the size of a football — ’ |
| 8 | When he took the ale into the warm farmhouse living room and saw everyone standing around the crackling log fire with food and drinks in their hands , he thought again of what he had just seen through the kitchen window . |
| 9 | Chamlong Simaung , the popular and charismatic Governor of Bangkok and leader of the Palang Dharma , announced on Jan. 14 that he was resigning his post to allow him to stand in the forthcoming elections in Bangkok Constituency 2 , one of the country 's most fiercely contested seats . |
| 10 | Cooking procedures : most of the meals do not need cooking , just add hot water and leave them to stand for a few minutes . |
| 11 | Just as Adam stands between the forces of good and evil , so do we stand between the heroic action and qualities of Christ and the fallen Angel of Light , and just as man did in the beginning , we too , as humans , fall prey to the tempter at each individual reading of the epic . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'll have to ask the doctor , ’ she said , and left him standing in the bare corridor . |
| 13 | When Not-Flaubert spotted his name on the piece of cardboard I was holding , he simply stopped pushing the trolley , left it standing among the shoving airport crowd and walked towards Jeeta and his wife-to-be , Jamila . |
| 14 | Again he tried to make it stand with the thin box as the base and once again it fell over . |
| 15 | It may be an unpalatable thought , but we suspect that to an increasing degree throughout the 1990s brewers and conservationists will find themselves standing on the same side of the fence . |