Example sentences of "[noun pl] stood at the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The packing had been done in the basement to avoid break ages , and the two crates stood at the foot of the stairs . |
| 2 | A battery of guns stood at the edge of the village , some cavalry horses stood unsaddled in the street beyond , and a battalion of infantry was bivouacked in a field to the right of the guns , but otherwise the enemy was hidden , and so Sharpe stuck with his earlier estimate . |
| 3 | for three numbers the Maltese heavy stared at him — while all his henchmen stood at the back of the club watching him watching John . |
| 4 | M. Lévy 's premises stood at the intersection of the Arab and Jewish streets , an ideal situation for his particular trade . |
| 5 | All Scottish sources of the period are full of descriptions of the actions of great men being taken with their ‘ kin , friends , allies , partakers , men and servants ’ ; that is , the nobles and greater lairds stood at the head of closely united and sometimes very extensive affinities . |
| 6 | Part of the reason why the shareholders had to wait so long for a return was that the original capital had been only 10,000 guineas , and the Company financed itself by fairly short-term loans from the merchants with which it did business , so the shareholders stood at the end of a long line of creditors but could expect substantial returns on their money in the end if the Company survived . |