Example sentences of "[pers pn] stand at the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I stood at the foot of the bed and watched my grandfather go to sleep . |
| 2 | And then he was pushed roughly on , and suddenly , inexplicably my mind was filled with a vivid picture of Christ looking down at me as I stood at the foot of the cross . |
| 3 | I stood at the bar with the Morning Line , WITCH WHO LIED FOR DR SEX . |
| 4 | I stood at the top of the slope . |
| 5 | I stood at the edge of a circle of standing stones , each eight to ten foot high , with a massive central stone which leaned at a perilous angle . |
| 6 | Images of animals huddled together for warmth , safety and companionship floated into my mind as I stood at the side of this man , watching him examine firearms . |
| 7 | The cughtagh 's presence is marked by a far-off tumble of pebbles and gravel as you stand at the opening to his cave . |
| 8 | She stood at the head of the small table , waiting for her son and daughter to seat themselves on either side of her and then sat down . |
| 9 | She called again , moving out through the gate until she stood at the top of the lower garden that sloped down to the bay . |
| 10 | He went down the stairs , and she stood at the top of them screaming . |
| 11 | She stood at the foot of the staircase which led up to the tower but even Jacqueline , so well known for her early rising that her grandfather called her the Dawn Patrol , was silent . |
| 12 | She stood at the foot of the bare dunes , gripping a string bag of swimming things and a volume of Smollett . |
| 13 | She stood at the foot of the mainmast , staring up at the intricacy of the complicated tracery of sails , spars and rope . |
| 14 | Now she stood at the gate of Ten-acre Pasture , staring across the hedgetops to the control tower that jutted into the gentle landscape with angular obscenity , begging silently that when she turned the corner he would be there . |
| 15 | She stood at the bottom of the bed and reached out her hands to catch his and pull them forward . |
| 16 | She turned up when Laura was married in 1984 and she stood at the back of the church because she did not want to detract from the bride 's big day . |
| 17 | She stood at the back of the dingy room , the child close by her side , and she listened to the clerk calling out the offences — soliciting was a common phrase , but once he said ‘ Procuring of men ’ — and she noticed that the Justice hardly raised his head : ‘ One pound or one month . |
| 18 | Climbing from the warm bed , she stood at the side for a moment to stare down at him . |
| 19 | Ilse Huber recognized him at once from his file photo as she stood at the barrier beside the security police . |
| 20 | It was after eight-thirty and in a few minutes the family would sit down to eat while she stood at the end of the table , still working . |
| 21 | She stood at the end of Sarah 's bed , all eighteen stone of her . |
| 22 | Now Sam looked at his wife as she stood at the end of the long , dark-panelled bedroom , her back to the window , beyond which olive trees rustled in a hot breeze . |
| 23 | She stood at the front of the plane and watched the passengers carefully . |
| 24 | When he left , we watched from the Met Office windows as she stood at the salute on the edge of the perimeter track , until his aircraft was out of sight . |
| 25 | Their belief is that we stand at the beginning of an age in which the microcomputer will truly become part of human culture . |
| 26 | If the absolutely fundamental achievements of human culture represented in the prohibitions on violence against authority and the temptation to incest which occasion it are loosened , then we stand at the edge of a frightful abyss which represents a collapse into an almost pre-human state of savagery and violence . |
| 27 | As we stand at the dawn of another pace-dominated summer , One Short went in search of answers . |
| 28 | It is mentioned to indicate that we stand at the start of communication changes and must prepare to play our part imaginatively in the future and not just retrospectively . |
| 29 | " You 've no imagination , " Graham said the other day , as we stood at the window of what was going to be the baby 's room , and looked out at the muddy patch behind our house . |
| 30 | Jo slipped an arm around my waist as we stood at the foot of the stairs . |