Example sentences of "[pron] stood [adj] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1903 it was deserted by the master stevedores , who formed their own association and in 1913 a new organization came into being , the Employers ' Association of the Port of Liverpool , which stood aloof from the National Maritime Board until it was reconstituted after the first world war . |
| 2 | She stood still for a long moment that seemed to the others to grow into an age . |
| 3 | As she stood barefoot on the cold boards , she comforted herself with the thought that soon it would be spring , daffodils would raise proud trumpets to nod in the soft breezes and in the fields beyond the town lambs would be born . |
| 4 | He stood straight like an elegant , modern building with his large , black hands gently hanging by his lower body . |
| 5 | The Lord Privy Seal , for instance , was usually a man of political consequence , but he stood aloof from the mechanical operations of the office . |
| 6 | He stood naked by the open balcony door , towelling his head after a shower . |