Example sentences of "[pron] stood [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I stood as the Green Party candidate in May 1988 and 1989 .
2 I stood over the other side of the road from it and watched .
3 I stood for a long while looking at Voting Right .
4 I stood for a long time in a telephone box just to keep out of the slicing rain .
5 I stood for a long time , staring at the mirror .
6 But our to avoid that situation I left and went to work with which kept me in the Edinburgh branch and within three or four weeks I stood for the local organizer and had not been successful .
7 I could hear the sound of rent cloth in my head , but I stood on a wooden chair while Lili pinned the seams closer , standing quietly like a broken horse to be saddled and bridled .
8 I stood on the round wall and wound the handle as fast as I could , but when the bucket was still just out of reach , the rope kept slipping so I could not reach the bucket .
9 I stood on the final tee with Ken Schofield and imagined the kind of pressure build-up the players were feeling .
10 As I stood on the tufted grass , surrounded by natural beauty , I felt as if I 'd come to another world
11 It was once full of treasures , but all I could think about as I stood on the battlemented roof , looking out over the Aegean , was that a disciple of Christ 's had sat in his cell in a little monastery half-way up the hill recording the extraordinary revelations he had been vouchsafed .
12 I stood at the front door of No. 5 , watching Dana straddle his bike , adjust his backpack and wave cheerily to me as he roared off down the road .
13 I stood at the front door for a long time being soaked by the rain .
14 I stood at the front door and it was around my ankles , within five minutes it was around my knees , ’ said Joanne .
15 Oh , I stood outside the primary school this morning and spoke to the other mothers , and none of them want anything to do with it .
16 Mr and Mrs Smith , the benign proprietors , were always good to me , giving me a lolly or a ‘ black jack ’ every time I shopped there , and I was looking forward to the treat as I stood behind a small queue masking the counter .
17 For a while I stood by the shattered doorway , wondering what to do .
18 I stood by the open window and the dogs licked my hands as I listened .
19 I stood in a short sling and laybacked over the bulge on a jammed stone into a smooth scoop .
20 I stood in a white wilderness , and perceived that to gather wood for burning in such conditions was not easy .
21 I stood in the slanting sunlight , warm and yellow around me , the stench of burning flesh and grass on the wind , the smoke rising into the air from burrows and cadavers , grey and black , the sweet smell of leaking unburned petrol coming from the Flame-thrower where I 'd left it , and I breathed deeply .
22 I pulled up in a gateway , Sam jumped out and we went through into a field ; and as the beagle scampered over the glittering turf I stood in the warm sunshine amid the melting frost and looked back at the dark damp blanket which blotted out the low country but left this jewelled world above it .
23 I stood in the little clearing round the ruined walls .
24 of Holborough , this was a corrugated iron building lined with timber , which stood on the opposite side of the road and lower down , where now the houses of Browndens Road , begin .
25 Every Saturday found me in the Hippodrome , our nearest cinema , which stood like a red-brick wireless set at the junction of Main Street , Byrely Road and Auckland Terrace .
26 Molassi sat cross legged next to a thin column of bright white light , which stood like a radiant strut at the centre of the chamber .
27 The ‘ new ’ building was erected in 1229 to replace the Broletto Vecchio , the old Broletto , which stood near the present Piazzetta Reale .
28 The only idea that seemed feasible was for the Collector to put on the rusty suit of armour which stood in the banqueting hall and to go out there with a scythe .
29 Alex recalls the old Wilton sheds , now demolished , which stood in the open ground behind what is now the Glenpatrick Mill Shop .
30 You knew where you stood with the Cold War .
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