Example sentences of "[pers pn] stand in a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 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 in a short sling and laybacked over the bulge on a jammed stone into a smooth scoop . |
| 5 | I stood in a white wilderness , and perceived that to gather wood for burning in such conditions was not easy . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | After that she stood in a hazy dream , listening to the words that made them husband and wife . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The remarks probably refer to illness , but they stand in a metaphoric sense for the condition that Renaissance women usually confronted . |
| 13 | A six inch deep channel of water still flowed over their wader clad feet as they stood in a rough circle looking down at something in the mud . |
| 14 | They stood in a small circle and looked up at him , Dr. Howarth , Clifford Bradley , Miss Foley , Mrs. Bidwell . |
| 15 | At least 13 protesters were killed , most of them run over by tanks as they stood in a human cordon trying to defend the building , and 230 were injured ; a soldier also died , shot by one of his own men . |
| 16 | The defending Englishmen were clustered in groups of three at intervals around thirty yards apart , strung out along the stockade itself and its command lookouts ; in the stream that passed through the settlement , and bounded the headland where Belmont 's Great House now commanded the rise , they stood in a double row to bar access to the settlement by that approach ; in the mangroves at the mouth of the stream two young sentries kept watch , though the prevailing easterly breeze rendered it unlikely , the English commanders decided , that the islanders ' attack would come from the sea on that shore . |
| 17 | They stood in a tight bunch and craned their necks to see what was causing the commotion . |
| 18 | The Latin papa , or Greek pappas , ‘ Daddy ’ , was used by early Christians of a bishop to whom they stood in a filial relation . |
| 19 | It stands in a small square , now some five feet below the present ground level , surrounded by cypress trees . |
| 20 | It stands in a charming enclave of similar houses in the heart of increasingly fashionable Deptford which has mercifully escaped the ravages of Sixties property developers and Seventies road schemes . |
| 21 | Originally it stood in a small church in Via San Pietrò which has long since disappeared , and was christened the ‘ Man of Stone ’ when it was repositioned . |
| 22 | It stood in a little square with dying trees around it . |