Example sentences of "[pers pn] stood [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I stood for a long while looking at Voting Right . |
| 2 | I stood for a long time in a telephone box just to keep out of the slicing rain . |
| 3 | I stood for a long time , staring at the mirror . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Mr and Mrs Smith , the benign proprietors , were always good to me , giving me a lolly or a ‘ black jack ’ every time I shopped there , and I was looking forward to the treat as I stood behind a small queue masking the counter . |
| 6 | I stood in a short sling and laybacked over the bulge on a jammed stone into a smooth scoop . |
| 7 | I stood in a white wilderness , and perceived that to gather wood for burning in such conditions was not easy . |
| 8 | I had an old air-raid shelter , partly dug into the ground because of the slope : there was a load of stones on top , waiting to turn the shelter into an apple store disguised as a rockery , and when Mrs Wilson saw this she stood for a long time looking at the hump in the ground and the pile of stones . |
| 9 | There she stood for a long time , gazing out to sea , her heart full of sadness and her eyes full of tears . |
| 10 | When he had gone , she stood for a long time in front of the looking-glass that hung over the fire , her hands pressed to her cheeks , her face quite alive with excitement . |
| 11 | She stood for a long time , trying to make sense of her feelings , the words he had said tumbling around in her brain . |
| 12 | After that she stood in a hazy dream , listening to the words that made them husband and wife . |
| 13 | It was as if she stood in a noisy limbo ; all the yesterdays had gone as if they had never been and all the tomorrows were no more than a tantalising promise . |
| 14 | She stood in a large yard with a glass of white wine in her hand and it spilt down the front of her red dress when she jumped at the banging noise of a firework . |
| 15 | I began to wonder what was happening when we stood for a long time at Birmingham New Street . |
| 16 | There they stood for a long time by a low stone wall , staring hopelessly out at the yellow fields of stubble , where the wheatsheaves were stooked and ready for gathering into the barn . |
| 17 | They stood for a long time in silence , and the others left them alone . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | A six inch deep channel of water still flowed over their wader clad feet as they stood in a rough circle looking down at something in the mud . |
| 22 | They stood in a small circle and looked up at him , Dr. Howarth , Clifford Bradley , Miss Foley , Mrs. Bidwell . |
| 23 | At least 13 protesters were killed , most of them run over by tanks as they stood in a human cordon trying to defend the building , and 230 were injured ; a soldier also died , shot by one of his own men . |
| 24 | The defending Englishmen were clustered in groups of three at intervals around thirty yards apart , strung out along the stockade itself and its command lookouts ; in the stream that passed through the settlement , and bounded the headland where Belmont 's Great House now commanded the rise , they stood in a double row to bar access to the settlement by that approach ; in the mangroves at the mouth of the stream two young sentries kept watch , though the prevailing easterly breeze rendered it unlikely , the English commanders decided , that the islanders ' attack would come from the sea on that shore . |
| 25 | They stood in a tight bunch and craned their necks to see what was causing the commotion . |
| 26 | The Latin papa , or Greek pappas , ‘ Daddy ’ , was used by early Christians of a bishop to whom they stood in a filial relation . |
| 27 | There is also an element of nostalgia , too , amongst the original secondary modern teachers , in the sense that , ‘ the staff knew where they stood within a small school ’ , with ‘ a more traditional authority pattern ’ . |
| 28 | As instructed , the building was largely three-storey , but it stood on a high basement and was dominated by a spiky ventilation tower centrally placed over the War Department . |
| 29 | It stood on a mossy hill , and was environed by an expanse of peat soil and many stacks of the dark-coloured fuel ; and in reaching it , many most forbidding sloughs had to be rounded and jumped over . |
| 30 | Originally it stood in a small church in Via San Pietrò which has long since disappeared , and was christened the ‘ Man of Stone ’ when it was repositioned . |