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Example sentences of "[pers pn] stand [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	I stand in a five-pointed star position in the middle of the room while the doghandler runs his hands along my limbs .
2	I stand in a light mist of rain .
3	‘ I stand in a British book shop with my mouth agape .
4	I stood for a long while looking at Voting Right .
5	I stood for a long time in a telephone box just to keep out of the slicing rain .
6	I stood for a long time , staring at the mirror .
7	I could hear the sound of rent cloth in my head , but I stood on a wooden chair while Lili pinned the seams closer , standing quietly like a broken horse to be saddled and bridled .
8	Mr and Mrs Smith , the benign proprietors , were always good to me , giving me a lolly or a ‘ black jack ’ every time I shopped there , and I was looking forward to the treat as I stood behind a small queue masking the counter .
9	I stood in a short sling and laybacked over the bulge on a jammed stone into a smooth scoop .
10	I stood in a white wilderness , and perceived that to gather wood for burning in such conditions was not easy .
11	The index-linked gilts on the market have maturities of up to 2024 and most of them stand at a substantial premium to their par value .
12	She stands for a long moment .
13	If you are to be awkward then my mother will not know where she stands for a good deal of time . ’
14	‘ If you stand in a real landscape and pick out with your eyes a path ahead , then walk the path and find it was a good route to have chosen , why , that is nothing mystical .
15	Whether you stand in a pristine lowland rainforest , beside a road or in an urban park , any casual glance towards the earth will quickly pick out ants , from a few to many individuals — and often from several species .
16	If Vic says could you stand in a different way or use the pole like this and tries to demonstrate they simply wo n't .
17	I had an old air-raid shelter , partly dug into the ground because of the slope : there was a load of stones on top , waiting to turn the shelter into an apple store disguised as a rockery , and when Mrs Wilson saw this she stood for a long time looking at the hump in the ground and the pile of stones .
18	There she stood for a long time , gazing out to sea , her heart full of sadness and her eyes full of tears .
19	When he had gone , she stood for a long time in front of the looking-glass that hung over the fire , her hands pressed to her cheeks , her face quite alive with excitement .
20	She stood for a long time , trying to make sense of her feelings , the words he had said tumbling around in her brain .
21	After that she stood in a hazy dream , listening to the words that made them husband and wife .
22	It was as if she stood in a noisy limbo ; all the yesterdays had gone as if they had never been and all the tomorrows were no more than a tantalising promise .
23	She stood in a large yard with a glass of white wine in her hand and it spilt down the front of her red dress when she jumped at the banging noise of a firework .
24	I began to wonder what was happening when we stood for a long time at Birmingham New Street .
25	They stand as a devastating comment on her view of Scotland , the one kingdom which was actually hers to govern .
26	They 're bigger than us , they stand for a bigger establishment than we do , like , we 're just little and they stand for bigger things , and you try to get your own back .
27	The remarks probably refer to illness , but they stand in a metaphoric sense for the condition that Renaissance women usually confronted .
28	‘ Well , I imagined him standing on a wee planet about the size of a football — ’
29	There they stood for a long time by a low stone wall , staring hopelessly out at the yellow fields of stubble , where the wheatsheaves were stooked and ready for gathering into the barn .
30	They stood for a long time in silence , and the others left them alone .