Example sentences of "[pers pn] stood in [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | I stood in a short sling and laybacked over the bulge on a jammed stone into a smooth scoop . |
2 | I stood in a white wilderness , and perceived that to gather wood for burning in such conditions was not easy . |
3 | I stood in the slanting sunlight , warm and yellow around me , the stench of burning flesh and grass on the wind , the smoke rising into the air from burrows and cadavers , grey and black , the sweet smell of leaking unburned petrol coming from the Flame-thrower where I 'd left it , and I breathed deeply . |
4 | I pulled up in a gateway , Sam jumped out and we went through into a field ; and as the beagle scampered over the glittering turf I stood in the warm sunshine amid the melting frost and looked back at the dark damp blanket which blotted out the low country but left this jewelled world above it . |
5 | I stood in the little clearing round the ruined walls . |
6 | After that she stood in a hazy dream , listening to the words that made them husband and wife . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | As she stood in the dark chapel , listening to the priest 's murmured prayers , the empty , depressed feeling intensified . |
10 | She stood in the small sitting-room and ran her finger along the top of a sideboard , drawing a line in the dust that had accumulated . |
11 | She stood in the hazy light cast by the bulb in the ceiling , looking uncomfortable and angry , as she phoned Eddy Russell of the Drugs Squad with the information about Della Torre and the lorry due to arrive at Dover the next day . |
12 | Emily sighed as she stood in the shabby kitchen . |
13 | She stood in the little porch with Binkie in her arms , her chin resting on his head ; they both gazed at Melissa with calm , unblinking eyes . |
14 | She stood in the open door , fists up on either side of her head , banging it , banging it hard , and wailing , " No , no , no , oh no … |
15 | ‘ Come in a moment , ’ she said , and we stood in the darkened hall . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | They stood in a small circle and looked up at him , Dr. Howarth , Clifford Bradley , Miss Foley , Mrs. Bidwell . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | They stood in a tight bunch and craned their necks to see what was causing the commotion . |
21 | The Latin papa , or Greek pappas , ‘ Daddy ’ , was used by early Christians of a bishop to whom they stood in a filial relation . |
22 | They stood in the single child 's bedroom and Molly joined in a short , silent tribute to the Ketterings ' marriage , whilst some large , blundering insect bumped against a window that had been long dosed . |
23 | 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 . |
24 | It stood in a little square with dying trees around it . |
25 | He stood in the shattered doorway , confronting his monster , a shadow among shadows . |
26 | No wonder Mosley was smiling as he stood in the cast council chamber . |
27 | He stood in the front row of the congregation immediately beneath one of the huge , heavily-ornamented lecterns , and during the readings his rapt , upturned face caught the light from the lectern 's candles . |
28 | As he stood in the drizzling rain he welcomed it : the contrast in temperature was huge compared with Helsinki . |
29 | So there he stood in the Dirty Duck , opposite Shakespeare 's Memorial Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon , 1951 , Prince of the heap . |
30 | It had seemed to him that her eyes looked right into his as he stood in the darkened hall , staring into the room . |