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 | She stood there for a long time , thinking the whole thing out . |
| 3 | She stood there in a full , swirling coat of silver-grey silk . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | They stood there for a few more seconds , staring at each other . |
| 7 | They stood there in a frightened cluster . |
| 8 | They stood together for a few moments , her head sunk in his mighty chest , his head finally bowed as he looked down on her . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He stood there for a few moments . |