Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] standing [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now I was standing at the closed door listening to his absence . |
| 2 | Sara curtsied , and backed to the door ; and it was only when it had closed behind her and she was standing on the long , tiled landing that she realized that her future mother-in-law had not once asked about her family in Ireland . |
| 3 | The road suddenly appeared through the thinning trees and Jenna had to scramble down a bank , cross a ditch and she was standing on the firm tarmac of the main highway . |
| 4 | She climbed up again , then ran along the shoreline until she was standing at the nearest point to it . |
| 5 | She was standing at the far end of the room , waiting for him . |
| 6 | She was standing at the front edge of the stage with the microphone hanging from one limp hand by the outside of her right thigh . |
| 7 | While she was standing in the grubby little shop , this incongruous memory had flashed into her head at the sight of her face . |
| 8 | We were standing on the black-veined grey marble stairs of the Twentieth-Century Building . |
| 9 | Because we were standing outside the Japanese restaurant , I told Chase to go in and order some take-aways for about two o'clock while Martin and I would scout either end of the Place for Bunny 's truck . |
| 10 | We were standing in the tiny lobby between the kitchen and the dining room , and she still had the clipboard clasped to her chest . |
| 11 | They were standing on the front steps of Crystal Springs House . |
| 12 | They were standing on the lower section , with a fire door leading onto a split-level landing . |
| 13 | They were standing on the lower landing watching . |
| 14 | They were standing on the paved area behind the house : all the windows were dark , the garden chairs and the round table abandoned and vulnerable . |
| 15 | They were standing on the main staircase , two flights up from the party room . |
| 16 | Oh only a couple of weeks , no they were standing in the common room and she knew he was a virgin right and they were still going out and she knew he was a virgin when they first started going out and Rox goes oh so are you a virgin then erm erm James and he goes no and she was still going out with him and she knew that it was n't with her , obviously , and , and Roxy goes oh who was it then and he goes oh just two , two birds I met in erm Portugal and |
| 17 | ‘ When I arived he had led his two sisters out and they were standing by the front door . |
| 18 | AN election candidate was last night accused of abusing democracy after some of the people who signed his nomination papers said they were not told he was standing for the far-Right British National Party . |
| 19 | He was standing on the exposed rocks at the highest point of the headland ; the ground fell away steeply from here , mostly bare rock and scrub , with just a narrow shelf of land that was almost a beach down at the water 's edge . |
| 20 | He was standing on the principled vision of his predecessor whose humanity had persuaded an awesome number of white Americans to re-examine their notions about ‘ minority ’ and ‘ majority ’ issues . |
| 21 | And in yet another jiffy he was standing on the very edge of the great big dark Forest of Sin ! |
| 22 | It was not until he was standing on the very edge that he saw Signor Fixit . |
| 23 | He was standing on the bottom stair when he heard footsteps coming up the back stairs from the kitchen and then Jane 's large dark eyes peered through the banisters at him . |
| 24 | He was standing at the open window in his pyjamas , the shotgun in his hand , staring out at the front field where the black splash of a jackdaw lay on the white ground beneath the ash tree . |
| 25 | He was standing beside the raised floorboard , looking into the cavity . |
| 26 | He was standing over the reeking individual now , peering close to get a look at the face . |
| 27 | He was standing in the bare , empty front room of his own house in Mouncy Street . |
| 28 | He was standing in the far corner , talking to some men , and she was able to view him unobserved for a few moments . |