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 | She stood aside from the Austro-Prussian War and watched while Prussia completed her preparation for pan-German hegemony . |
| 5 | She stood there for a long time , thinking the whole thing out . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | She stood there in a full , swirling coat of silver-grey silk . |
| 8 | She stood there in the hot road in front of the prison door , and waited . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Twenty minutes later we stood outside on the spongy pavement . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | They stood just outside the front door . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | They stood quietly in the light rain , and more than half of them sucked at their ice creams . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | They stood there for a few more seconds , staring at each other . |
| 19 | They stood there in a frightened cluster . |
| 20 | They stood together for a few moments , her head sunk in his mighty chest , his head finally bowed as he looked down on her . |
| 21 | A few days before Monica died , they stood together by the open window , looking towards the sunset . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | He stood there with the filthy little bits of orange sauce on his so-clean clothes and looking sheepish I do n't want any lunch , I snapped at him . |
| 24 | He stood there for a few moments . |
| 25 | And her uncle with me beside you and whole wedding and the minister was saying , sit down and do n't he he brought her up the aisle , I do n't know whether her father 's coming back or something , and he says no I 'm not sitting like , he says no I 'm not moving back and he stood there for the whole wedding like , back . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | He stood there in the empty room a moment , frowning , hearing only the laughter from the terrace outside . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | He stood almost on the same spot as before , and watched the lighted windows of a basement flat across the way . |
| 30 | 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 . |