Example sentences of "[pron] stood [adv] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I stood there like a half-opened penknife , splattering the forecourt noisily . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm a Bank Assistant ’ , was the first thing she said when she stood up at a recent IBOA meeting . |
| 3 | She stood there for a long time , thinking the whole thing out . |
| 4 | She stood there in a full , swirling coat of silver-grey silk . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | They stood there in a frightened cluster . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I believe at Glastonbury he would have blended well with the bill : at Finsbury Park he stood out like a sore thumb . |
| 13 | He stood out like a sore thumb for Sheff Utd , I think I even remember him from his Palace days . |
| 14 | He was just quietly walking into the wall , while the rest of us stood around in an awkward half-circle . |