Example sentences of "[pron] stood there [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He stood there in the empty room a moment , frowning , hearing only the laughter from the terrace outside . |