Example sentences of "[pron] [be] stand [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , here I am standing by a purpose-built hole in the ground , a drop into another dimension . |
| 2 | No way , I 'm standing in a nice and warm place I do n't think I should be copying a tree anyway a trees a tree . |
| 3 | I dream of Strathspeld , and the long summers of my childhood passed in a trance of lazy pleasure , ending with that day , running through the woods ( but I turn away from that memory , the way I 've learned to over the years ) ; I wander again through the woods and the small , hidden glens , along the shores of the ornamental lochan and the river and its loch and I 'm standing near the old boathouse in that defeatingly bright sunlight , light dancing on water , and I see two figures , naked and thin and white in the grass beyond the reed beds , and as I watch them the light turns from gold to silver and then to white , and the trees seem to shrink in on themselves , leaves disappearing in the chill coruscations of that enveloping white blaze while the view all around me becomes brighter and darker at once and all is reduced to black and white ; trees are bare and black , the ground smother-smoothed in white and the two young figures are gone , while one even smaller one — booted , gloved , coat-tails flying behind — runs laughing across the white level of the frozen loch . |
| 4 | I 'm to stand in a huge foil-wrapped box , the sides of which collapse in a puff of smoke at the touch of a remote control button held by Jim . |
| 5 | There was no sandy beach , and as this part of the bay was an inlet , I felt as if I were standing beside a great lake , not the Atlantic Ocean . |
| 6 | When I was standing on a cold windy Kop watching us play shite against the likes of Plymouth Argyle , Shez always seemed to make it bearable . |
| 7 | Now I was standing at the closed door listening to his absence . |
| 8 | It did n't exactly lend weight to my decision to realize , when I 'd finished making it , that I was standing outside a second-hand jeweller 's looking at a selection of gold rings . |
| 9 | My eye fell on a page she had left on the kitchen table the other day and I had noted , before I could avert my eyes , a pretty scholarly history of my conversion to double-knotting , after an incident when I was unable to get out of the train at Greenwich one evening and found myself being carried on to Maze Hill , because someone was standing on the trailing lace of my shoe . |
| 10 | He knew if someone was standing in the blind spot directly behind him , he was in trouble . |
| 11 | There is little trace left of York 's truly ancient coaching , posting and market inns , while nearly half the pubs which were standing in the 1950s , including some historic gems , have been closed down , converted , or redeveloped into oblivion . |
| 12 | The thump of the ball jerked the pram , which was standing on a slight slope . |
| 13 | Springfield himself was standing beside the open door of his car , which he had drawn up on the verge opposite the gates , angled so its headlights were bathing them in a pool of bright luminescence . |
| 14 | You 're standing on a high cliff , chopped off and adumbrated by the heaving green of the sea . |
| 15 | You can still signal using your arms , provided you 're standing against a suitable background . |
| 16 | She is standing in a solitary shaft of heavenly light , her smile willing me to win . |
| 17 | Mrs Barzach will have a much more difficult time retaining her seat in the 15th arrondissement of Paris , which she has represented for only the past three years and where she is standing against the well-established local RPR mayor ( and deputy mayor of the capital ) . |
| 18 | The party 's chairperson , Alan Warren , who is standing as a local government candidate in the Castle ward , has hit out at planning restrictions on commercial development in the north of the city . |
| 19 | Sara curtsied , and backed to the door ; and it was only when it had closed behind her and she was standing on the long , tiled landing that she realized that her future mother-in-law had not once asked about her family in Ireland . |
| 20 | The road suddenly appeared through the thinning trees and Jenna had to scramble down a bank , cross a ditch and she was standing on the firm tarmac of the main highway . |
| 21 | She climbed up again , then ran along the shoreline until she was standing at the nearest point to it . |
| 22 | She was standing at the far end of the room , waiting for him . |
| 23 | She was standing at the front edge of the stage with the microphone hanging from one limp hand by the outside of her right thigh . |
| 24 | While she was standing in the grubby little shop , this incongruous memory had flashed into her head at the sight of her face . |
| 25 | She was standing by a small chest of drawers on which were littered various pieces of domestic junk and a pile of old magazines — True Story , Confessions , Tit-Bits and the like . |
| 26 | The shot slipped from his grasp and nearly flattened the Head 's wife who was standing at a safe distance ( or so she thought ) behind the thrower . |
| 27 | She cast an impatient look at Mitch , who was standing with the same stunned attitude he had adopted when he had seen that the girl was blind . |
| 28 | ‘ Up West ? ’ said Matey , handing Sally-Anne the china from the small dresser in the kitchen , which had been scrupulously washed that morning and was now being replaced by Sally-Anne who was standing on a small stool to reach the top shelf . |
| 29 | He beckoned to Benedicta who was standing near the baptismal font . |
| 30 | After all , one of them was Mrs Eileen Paisley , who was standing against the outgoing Lord Mayor to protest his papist flag-lowering . |