Example sentences of "[conj] he stood [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Creed had requisitioned an open car , and he stood for the entire procession , as a mark of his own personal respect for the deceased . |
| 2 | In 1981 he was chairman of the Computer Retailers ' Association , and he stood as a local government candidate for Rother Valley in the 1987 General Election . |
| 3 | He was certainly no taller than me and he stood in an instinctive boxer 's crouch . |
| 4 | He brushed aside new-bursting buds that slapped at his face , until he stood by the rust-eaten iron gates , watching the hearse accelerate down the road . |
| 5 | She had a great temptation to rest against him , but he stood with a swift movement that was all anger and sarcasm . |
| 6 | 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 ? |
| 7 | His heart thumped as he stood on the Yugoslav border and stared through the night at the nearby fields in Hungary . |
| 8 | ‘ So you are writing about those things , ’ another Israeli said as he stood in a narrow , shaded lane . |
| 9 | No wonder Mosley was smiling as he stood in the cast council chamber . |
| 10 | As he stood in the drizzling rain he welcomed it : the contrast in temperature was huge compared with Helsinki . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It had seemed to him that her eyes looked right into his as he stood in the darkened hall , staring into the room . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | She glared at Hank as he stood by the front door ready to open it for the paper 's representatives , and tried not to scream while these gentlemen put on their boots again . |
| 15 | These dreadful ideas , horrors from the past now poised to darken the future , occurred to Ludens in a sudden timeless flash as he stood by the still open door of the flat , hearing Irina talking to Patrick in the kitchen . |
| 16 | He was waiting for a couple of soluble aspirin to break up in a glass of water as he stood before the opened mirror-cabinet . |