Example sentences of "[pron] stood [verb] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fifteen minutes later , or it may have been twenty , I stood staring at a caged lift : the chest-flexing iron lattice , the accordion doors . |
| 2 | I stood staring for a long while . |
| 3 | The last thing she saw , before she turned and flew up the stairs , was the embarrassment on Bob Calder 's face — and the shock on the face of Sofia Valenti , who stood huddled in a shadowed corner . |
| 4 | Observers linked the removal of this ministry from PRI control to the influence of PSI secretary-general Bettino Craxi and his close association with media proprietor Silvio Berlusconi , who stood to lose from a strict interpretation of the new law . |
| 5 | He stood mesmerized by a giant wave , shooting picture after picture until it came right over and dragged him out . |