Example sentences of "[pers pn] stood [prep] the [noun sg] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When we pulled out of Jaffa , I stood on the stern and looked out over the old city , ’ he said . |
| 2 | I stood at the door and looked up , but the windows were dark ; she had gone to bed . |
| 3 | I stood at the window and looked down into the street . |
| 4 | In the city , I stood at the window and identified the cars as they breezed by . |
| 5 | Happiness , I knew , was not something she thought much of as an end : it was as if she had said , I 'm glad you do n't mind being poor , and , although when I replied to her , it was only to tell her about the baby , Thomas , and how he had put on five pounds and had cut his first tooth , I brooded over what I might have said while I stood at the sink or pushed the pram , making great , windy speeches in my mind , venting on my absent aunt the curious , unreasonable anger that seemed to rise up before me like a dark pit , bottomless and frightening . |
| 6 | ‘ I stood beside the drill and kept looking up at this line we had just made ; and it was like a gun-barrel . |
| 7 | I had another coffee ; I was confused , irritable and dizzy as I stood by the buffet and watched the station cleaners , suddenly desperate to be on my way before tiredness made me change my mind . |
| 8 | I stood by the window and waited . |
| 9 | So I stood by the door and I never moved till he went in oh he said But with a caravan I do n't know . |
| 10 | I stood in the alleyway and took a shufty through my police-issue 200 × 6000 macroscopic laser-prism binoculars . |
| 11 | Well do n't you see it going past , if you stood in the middle and watched it , there it goes ? |
| 12 | She stood under the shower and told herself it was the water that was running down her face and not tears . |
| 13 | She stood at the door and stared . |
| 14 | Picking Gwen Bear up from the bed , and hugging the soft toy to her for comfort , she stood at the window and stared out at the cloudy night sky . |
| 15 | She stood on the stool and reached up to replace it , and when she stood back down again she bent over and whispered to me , ‘ That 's a bad omen , luv . |
| 16 | She stood on the pavement and pointed the spray can at the low brick wall of their front garden . |
| 17 | It was red , and when she stood on the table and touched it , it looked like blood . |
| 18 | She stood in the porch and rang the bell . |
| 19 | After all , she said so herself almost five months ago , as she stood in the doorway and bade me goodbye . |
| 20 | After they had left , she stood in the doorway and watched them walking down the main street past the square . |
| 21 | Motioning for Seb to come to her , she stood in the doorway and in a low voice , said , ‘ There 's someone downstairs to see Anna . |
| 22 | Tall and elegant , her silver-grey hair styled into a smooth bob , she stood in the doorway and coolly surveyed Rachel with the same steady , grey-eyed gaze of her son . |
| 23 | We stood outside the factory and asked workers entering to sign a petition demanding a union . |
| 24 | We stood outside the hotel and watched for it . |
| 25 | They stood on the step and waited for the taxi with black bands on their arms and suitcases in their hands , forlorn passengers from a wrecked ship , clutching a few haphazardly salvaged possessions and staring in dismay at the choppy sea to which they must commit themselves . |
| 26 | They stood in the dark and listened . |
| 27 | On Monday I put this bowl into the washing up bowl , cos it stood in the car and take this , like that , to school . |
| 28 | He stood at the urinal and peed fiercely at the white ceramic wall , streaked with rusty tear-stains from the corroding pipes . |
| 29 | Of the spectator , Dooley said he stood between the man and the referee as the teams were leaving the pitch . |
| 30 | He stood on the starter and kicked up the side-rest . |