Example sentences of "[pron] stood in [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | He stood in the shattered doorway , confronting his monster , a shadow among shadows . |
| 32 | No wonder Mosley was smiling as he stood in the cast council chamber . |
| 33 | He stood in the front row of the congregation immediately beneath one of the huge , heavily-ornamented lecterns , and during the readings his rapt , upturned face caught the light from the lectern 's candles . |
| 34 | As he stood in the drizzling rain he welcomed it : the contrast in temperature was huge compared with Helsinki . |
| 35 | So there he stood in the Dirty Duck , opposite Shakespeare 's Memorial Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon , 1951 , Prince of the heap . |
| 36 | It had seemed to him that her eyes looked right into his as he stood in the darkened hall , staring into the room . |
| 37 | He stood in the damp boots that leaked the snow wet to his socks , and he hated the man who sat at the desk . |
| 38 | with the ineffable modesty that , because he stood in the direct line of the Apostolic Succession , he had a better right to preach the Gospel and to administer the Sacraments , and was more a minister of Christ than Dr Dale or Mr Spurgeon or Henry Ward Beecher … what could they do but laugh ? |
| 39 | Dowd shivered with unease as he stood in the plain hallway of the Tower , knowing that somewhere nearby was the largest collection of magical writings gathered in one place outside the Vatican , and that amongst them would be many rituals for the raising and dispatching of creatures like himself . |
| 40 | He stood in the crude stirrups of his saddle and smelled the air hard , seeming satisfied . |
| 41 | He stood in the crude stirrups of his saddle and smelled the air hard , seeming satisfied . |
| 42 | As he stood in the torrential rain , and peered this way and that , the Mason and Garvey stood with their arms round each other 's shoulders , in the doorway of the inn , watching him in puzzled amusement . |
| 43 | He was certainly no taller than me and he stood in an instinctive boxer 's crouch . |