Example sentences of "[pron] stood on a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could hear the sound of rent cloth in my head , but I stood on a wooden chair while Lili pinned the seams closer , standing quietly like a broken horse to be saddled and bridled . |
| 2 | Although she put them firmly into the category of ‘ workers ’ , rather than ‘ idlers ’ , and therefore to be praised , they were not quite on a par with the Welsh factory workers , or designers ; nonetheless they stood on a higher plane than accountants , clerks or corporate planners . |
| 3 | There the rise and swell of incomprehensible Latin seemed to have a grandeur that aroused the spirit of poetry in the Gaels , as if they stood on a rocky shore communing with the waves . |
| 4 | The other two men were hit by the two gunmen as they stood on a nearby footpath at the spot where black taxis operate up and down Belfast 's Falls Road . |
| 5 | As instructed , the building was largely three-storey , but it stood on a high basement and was dominated by a spiky ventilation tower centrally placed over the War Department . |
| 6 | It stood on a mossy hill , and was environed by an expanse of peat soil and many stacks of the dark-coloured fuel ; and in reaching it , many most forbidding sloughs had to be rounded and jumped over . |
| 7 | For a few months he stood on a European par with Adler and Liebknecht and tried to take responsibility for Russians interned after the Brest–Litovsk peace . |