Example sentences of "[pers pn] stood [prep] [art] [noun sg] and " 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 I stood beside the drill and kept looking up at this line we had just made ; and it was like a gun-barrel .
6 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 .
7 I stood by the window and waited .
8 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 .
9 I stood in the alleyway and took a shufty through my police-issue 200 × 6000 macroscopic laser-prism binoculars .
10 And then every year after that , they used to hold the one minute 's silence which the mill whistles went and of course you stood for a minute and then they went again and that was it over .
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 a chair and I used to have to draw the lines round the back of her legs with a pencil .
16 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 .
17 She stood on the pavement and pointed the spray can at the low brick wall of their front garden .
18 It was red , and when she stood on the table and touched it , it looked like blood .
19 She stood in the porch and rang the bell .
20 After all , she said so herself almost five months ago , as she stood in the doorway and bade me goodbye .
21 After they had left , she stood in the doorway and watched them walking down the main street past the square .
22 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 .
23 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 .
24 We stood outside the factory and asked workers entering to sign a petition demanding a union .
25 We stood outside the hotel and watched for it .
26 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 .
27 And they stood in a corner and drank them , and exchanged their names , at last : she much admired the clear way with which he presented his own .
28 They stood in the dark and listened .
29 On Monday I put this bowl into the washing up bowl , cos it stood in the car and take this , like that , to school .
30 He stood for a moment and then started to go out .
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