Example sentences of "[pron] stood [adv] in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She stood there in a full , swirling coat of silver-grey silk . |
| 2 | She stood there in the hot road in front of the prison door , and waited . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | They stood quietly in the light rain , and more than half of them sucked at their ice creams . |
| 6 | They stood there in a frightened cluster . |
| 7 | He stood there in the crowded classroom , half listening to Mrs Willmot , and thought of the inexorable process going on all round him — the lives whose courses were being decided at this moment , behind the innocent-seeming chatter , the smiles , the faintly carnival atmosphere of families having a day out . |
| 8 | He stood there in the empty room a moment , frowning , hearing only the laughter from the terrace outside . |
| 9 | Three famous golf links lay below Patrick as he stood there in the last of the daylight — Royal Cinque Ports , Royal St. George 's and Prince 's . |
| 10 | He stood more in the classical Christian tradition , which insisted that self-knowledge and knowledge of God are intimately connected , but that they are not at all the same thing . |