Example sentences of "[pers pn] stand on [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 I stood on the round wall and wound the handle as fast as I could , but when the bucket was still just out of reach , the rope kept slipping so I could not reach the bucket .
3 ‘ When I stood on the first tee in the morning I could hardly see the fairway , ’ said the Atherstone club-mate and friend of Paul Broadhurst , the Ryder Cup player .
4 I stood on the final tee with Ken Schofield and imagined the kind of pressure build-up the players were feeling .
5 As I stood on the tufted grass , surrounded by natural beauty , I felt as if I 'd come to another world
6 It was once full of treasures , but all I could think about as I stood on the battlemented roof , looking out over the Aegean , was that a disciple of Christ 's had sat in his cell in a little monastery half-way up the hill recording the extraordinary revelations he had been vouchsafed .
7 Just over five and a half years later , I stood on the same spot and watched the Israelis drive down the same road to be greeted in precisely the same way by the same Christians on the same balconies .
8 But we are a few guys , not interested in politics , who will play golf with anybody as 50 per cent individuals and 50 per cent representatives of our country because when you stand on the 1st tee , they call …
9 I get about thirty quid if you stand on the right corner .
10 You stand on the flat tray which they call a seat , take the weight on your arms on the sides of the cockpit and lower your feet into the nose cone .
11 As she stood on the crimson carpet , hesitating , the chandeliers suddenly flashed on , dispelling the gloom .
12 From where she stood on the gravelled forecourt , she saw that the flight of steps ahead led up to the living accommodation at the higher level , no doubt to exploit the panoramic view , while below , built into the slope , were the garages and stores .
13 We stood on the concrete set of the main concourse while extras thronged about .
14 We wandered over Clare Bridge , which always looks as if it is about to collapse , and then up to St John 's , where we stood on the old Wren bridge and talked for some time , gazing at the so-called Bridge of Sighs which connects the old and new parts of St John 's .
15 There we stood on the perilous slope .
16 We stood on the high shingle bank , striving to keep our balance .
17 The crowd had now swelled to huge numbers as we stood on the 16th tee .
18 We stood on the top step , an icy wind driving any sleep from our eyes and faces , staring out over the snow-carpeted grounds .
19 After an hour on the flat we stood on an old snow patch at the foot of the Plaret cascades and looked straight up a perfect glacier valley to the hut , and beyond the Promontoire hut , glinting in the afternoon light , high on a southerly arm of La Meije .
20 ‘ Well , I imagined him standing on a wee planet about the size of a football — ’
21 Although she put them firmly into the category of ‘ workers ’ , rather than ‘ idlers ’ , and therefore to be praised , they were not quite on a par with the Welsh factory workers , or designers ; nonetheless they stood on a higher plane than accountants , clerks or corporate planners .
22 There the rise and swell of incomprehensible Latin seemed to have a grandeur that aroused the spirit of poetry in the Gaels , as if they stood on a rocky shore communing with the waves .
23 The other two men were hit by the two gunmen as they stood on a nearby footpath at the spot where black taxis operate up and down Belfast 's Falls Road .
24 They stood on the landward edge of the riverside path , very close to the lipping water .
25 Five minutes later they stood on the grassy bank looking down at the brown water .
26 They stood on the warm asphalt .
27 No doubt Temple remembered that once they stood on the same platform at Cambridge .
28 The blue-green pillars of Hamelin Pool are living stromatolites and the groups of them standing on the sun-dappled sea-floor are as close as we may ever get to a scene from the world of two thousand million years ago .
29 It stands on a small hill , higher than the other villas , with a private approach road and a large balcony looking out to sea .
30 It stands on a small mound at the junction of the two villages .
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