Example sentences of "[pers pn] stood [v-ing] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 I stood leaning against the tall coconut palm tree .
2 Fifteen minutes later , or it may have been twenty , I stood staring at a caged lift : the chest-flexing iron lattice , the accordion doors .
3 I stood staring for a long while .
4 I stood waiting in the pre-dawn dark watching house lights go on .
5 For a moment she stood looking around the wide hall , closely carpeted in dark , velvety blue which lent an added drama to the vivid Impressionist paintings , the apricot-coloured Knole settee .
6 She stood leaning against the tiled wall with a towel wrapped around her body .
7 Gripping her spear in white hands , she stood gazing at the shadowy Isle .
8 She stood staring at the yellow-flowered table cloth , as phrases formed and reformed inside her head , but she said nothing .
9 We stood staring across the icy water at the mist-shrouded island .
10 He stood shivering in the cold air , no longer one with the land , his eyes dim and sightless , his ears blocked to the night sounds , and tried to think .
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