Example sentences of "[pron] stood [verb] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The piste disappeared and I stood lost in a maze of tyre-tracks , which shot in every direction . |
| 2 | The bus was cosy and , as I stood dangling from a strap with the other excess passengers , someone asked the driver if Hampstead Road was still closed off to traffic going north . |
| 3 | She stood poised for a moment , stretched her mouth wide , licked her lips , moved her shoulders from side to side , then let her body sway , waited for the chorus to finish and the verse to start and she went on . |
| 4 | She was breathing too hard , too noisily she stood looking into a window to slow her breath . |
| 5 | Then , instead of running over the main road to our street , she stood waving for a bit and then walked backwards down the post part and started going up someone 's drive . |
| 6 | I seem to remember , Bill , way back in 1979 during the election campaign , Margaret Thatcher had a small calf pressed upon her , which she stood holding in a field in East Anglia or something , so I mean it 's not just erm John Major . |
| 7 | As she stood waiting for a taxi a speeding car appeared out of the freezing fog . |
| 8 | Party voices came floating through the air to Marion , who stood tucked in a corner between the sideboard and the wall . |
| 9 | They stood to gain from an insurance payout on Stokle 's death . |