Example sentences of "[pers pn] stood [prep] the [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 Well do n't you see it going past , if you stood in the middle and watched it , there it goes ?
11 She stood under the shower and told herself it was the water that was running down her face and not tears .
12 She stood at the door and stared .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 She stood on the pavement and pointed the spray can at the low brick wall of their front garden .
16 It was red , and when she stood on the table and touched it , it looked like blood .
17 She stood in the porch and rang the bell .
18 After all , she said so herself almost five months ago , as she stood in the doorway and bade me goodbye .
19 After they had left , she stood in the doorway and watched them walking down the main street past the square .
20 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 .
21 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 .
22 We stood outside the factory and asked workers entering to sign a petition demanding a union .
23 We stood outside the hotel and watched for it .
24 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 .
25 They stood in the dark and listened .
26 On Monday I put this bowl into the washing up bowl , cos it stood in the car and take this , like that , to school .
27 He stood at the urinal and peed fiercely at the white ceramic wall , streaked with rusty tear-stains from the corroding pipes .
28 Of the spectator , Dooley said he stood between the man and the referee as the teams were leaving the pitch .
29 He stood on the starter and kicked up the side-rest .
30 He stood outside the door and cried and then went and drank until he was out cold .
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