Example sentences of "[pron] stood [verb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I stood leaning against the tall coconut palm tree . |
| 2 | I stood waiting in the pre-dawn dark watching house lights go on . |
| 3 | She stood framed in the great crystal window , her eyes on the plains and the rolling fields and the forests below Tara . |
| 4 | For a moment she stood looking around the wide hall , closely carpeted in dark , velvety blue which lent an added drama to the vivid Impressionist paintings , the apricot-coloured Knole settee . |
| 5 | She stood leaning against the tiled wall with a towel wrapped around her body . |
| 6 | Gripping her spear in white hands , she stood gazing at the shadowy Isle . |
| 7 | She stood staring at the yellow-flowered table cloth , as phrases formed and reformed inside her head , but she said nothing . |
| 8 | Eyes rounded in appalled realisation , she stared up at the man who stood stooped in the confined space up ahead . |
| 9 | We stood staring across the icy water at the mist-shrouded island . |
| 10 | They stood huddled beside the small stove and his father waited for his tears to subside . |
| 11 | He stood shivering in the cold air , no longer one with the land , his eyes dim and sightless , his ears blocked to the night sounds , and tried to think . |
| 12 | He stood silhouetted in the soft light that flowed out of the room and silently toasted me . |