Example sentences of "[pron] stood [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I stood there like a half-opened penknife , splattering the forecourt noisily . |
| 2 | A uniformed man on either side of him , Joe walked past the vehicle to a steel-shuttered garage door which stood just beyond the public entrance . |
| 3 | In some cases even those more conservative chapels which stood aside from the changing fashions made notable contributions to their own town 's architecture . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm a Bank Assistant ’ , was the first thing she said when she stood up at a recent IBOA meeting . |
| 5 | The boat too affected her profoundly ; she had never been on a boat before , except for a rowing boat in the park , and she stood up on the top deck in the bitter grey April wind , and watched the foam and the emptiness and the receding bar of Folkestone , and she thought that she had never seen anything so wonderful in her life . |
| 6 | She stood aside from the Austro-Prussian War and watched while Prussia completed her preparation for pan-German hegemony . |
| 7 | She stood there for a long time , thinking the whole thing out . |
| 8 | There was a pathetic dignity about the old animal as she stood there against the mouldering timber of the partition , her eyes patient and undemanding . |
| 9 | She stood there in a full , swirling coat of silver-grey silk . |
| 10 | She stood there in the hot road in front of the prison door , and waited . |
| 11 | She stood there like a dark messiah with some unseen flock before her , and Pete could n't help but begin to assemble shapes out of the grainy darkness and to give them solidity and movement . |
| 12 | Peter admired her for it ; he liked the way she stood out from the other wives . |
| 13 | She stood out from the general run of Tory women like a Bird of Paradise in Trafalgar Square . |
| 14 | Those returning Marines crashed their arms across their spreadeagle-painted chest plastrons , saluting Lord Pugh who stood up on a high balcony of traceried wrought tungsten . |
| 15 | He was a fiery character of immense stubbornness who stood out against the new plans to merge his land into a co-operative pool that would benefit everyone . |
| 16 | Masaryk was an eminent liberal scholar who stood out against the Catholic-led anti-semitic hysteria of the 1890s . |
| 17 | Her short blonde hair whipping round her face in the breeze , Ronni turned back to fix her eyes on the jetty , which was drawing ever closer as Jeff 's motor boat approached it , and focused with growing interest on the imposing tall , dark figure who stood there in the bright Sardinian sunshine . |
| 18 | Twenty minutes later we stood outside on the spongy pavement . |
| 19 | George locked the baggage car door behind us and we stood again in the quiet horse car which looked homely and friendly with the horses ' heads poking forward over the doors . |
| 20 | They stood just outside the front door . |
| 21 | At the corner of Bowyers Row they stood aside as a huge , wooden wagon rolled by , pulled by four horses , their manes hogged , eyes blinkered and nostrils flaring at the corrupting smell of death . |
| 22 | They stood quietly in the light rain , and more than half of them sucked at their ice creams . |
| 23 | But as they stood there with the white jasmine making an aura of perfume around their heads , something in the mood of the evening seemed to change . |
| 24 | They stood there on the high stone balcony , the seven great lords of Chung Kuo , the sky a perfect blue overhead , the early morning sunlight glistening from the imperial yellow of their silks . |
| 25 | They stood there in a frightened cluster . |
| 26 | A few days before Monica died , they stood together by the open window , looking towards the sunset . |
| 27 | When they played the song at London 's Borderline recently , it stood out like a radioactive rabbit on a nudist beach , primarily because most of the remainder of the set collapsed like a drunk deck of cards . |
| 28 | He stood unsuccessfully as a Liberal Unionist candidate for Parliament in the 1885 and 1886 elections in north Leeds and the Pudsey division of Yorkshire . |
| 29 | We told Frank that we would support him if he stood up to the little tyrant , that he would feel better if he did , citing our own experiences , mine in particular . |
| 30 | He stood up with a muttered curse of impatience , and when the lightning flashed a little while later she caught a glimpse of his hunched back . |