Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] stood [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Five minutes later they stood on the grassy bank looking down at the brown water . |
| 2 | He was wounded at the siege of Leith in 1560 and nine years later he stood against the northern rising , subsequently advising on the defence of the northern border . |
| 3 | There we stood on the perilous slope . |
| 4 | No , the sea , said Wilkie , and she looked out , at the Stella Maris , anchored off the coast , and there he stood on the curving prow , pale on the pale sky , with a triangular patch of yellow like a painted sun — Van Gogh chrome , not Renaissance gilt — between his thighs and his limbs creamy-brown like the foam on the new cappuccino coffee . |
| 5 | There he stood before the official inquiry in his crisp , bemedalled marine uniform , his voice breaking with emotion as he lectured the assembled politicians on what was in the nation 's interests as if he himself had just invented patriotism . |
| 6 | So there he stood in the Dirty Duck , opposite Shakespeare 's Memorial Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon , 1951 , Prince of the heap . |
| 7 | You knew where you stood with the Cold War . |
| 8 | From where she stood on the gravelled forecourt , she saw that the flight of steps ahead led up to the living accommodation at the higher level , no doubt to exploit the panoramic view , while below , built into the slope , were the garages and stores . |
| 9 | For him the high point of the ceremony was when he stood before the empty but impressive tomb of Cyrus the Great and addressed it grandiloquently in his flat , featureless voice . |