Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] stand [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Now I was standing at the closed door listening to his absence . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He knew if someone was standing in the blind spot directly behind him , he was in trouble . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The thump of the ball jerked the pram , which was standing on a slight slope . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | She climbed up again , then ran along the shoreline until she was standing at the nearest point to it . |
| 13 | She was standing at the far end of the room , waiting for him . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | While she was standing in the grubby little shop , this incongruous memory had flashed into her head at the sight of her face . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ 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 . |
| 20 | He beckoned to Benedicta who was standing near the baptismal font . |
| 21 | After all , one of them was Mrs Eileen Paisley , who was standing against the outgoing Lord Mayor to protest his papist flag-lowering . |
| 22 | In no time at all we were standing on a huge patch of snow at the summit of a mountain only a few feet short of a Munro . |
| 23 | We were standing on the black-veined grey marble stairs of the Twentieth-Century Building . |
| 24 | Because we were standing outside the Japanese restaurant , I told Chase to go in and order some take-aways for about two o'clock while Martin and I would scout either end of the Place for Bunny 's truck . |
| 25 | A warm draught blew across the platform , one which could only be a Mediterranean breeze or synthetically produced , the latter being more likely as we were standing under a dull winter 's day in London . |
| 26 | We were standing in a small domed sanctuary . |
| 27 | We were standing in the tiny lobby between the kitchen and the dining room , and she still had the clipboard clasped to her chest . |
| 28 | In March 1908 a crossover was laid near the top of Tamworth Road , so that a second car could reverse when one was standing on the terminal stub . |
| 29 | They were standing on the front steps of Crystal Springs House . |
| 30 | They were standing on the lower section , with a fire door leading onto a split-level landing . |