Example sentences of "[conj] he stand [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Waterworth still wanted to fight , claimed Mr Prescott and he stood between the two men trying to get his girlfriend back into the pub .
2 Creed had requisitioned an open car , and he stood for the entire procession , as a mark of his own personal respect for the deceased .
3 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 .
4 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 ?
5 As he stood on the first tee at New Orleans last week , he noticed a boy in a wheelchair .
6 His heart thumped as he stood on the Yugoslav border and stared through the night at the nearby fields in Hungary .
7 No wonder Mosley was smiling as he stood in the cast council chamber .
8 As he stood in the drizzling rain he welcomed it : the contrast in temperature was huge compared with Helsinki .
9 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 .
10 It had seemed to him that her eyes looked right into his as he stood in the darkened hall , staring into the room .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 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 .
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