Example sentences of "[pers pn] stood there [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I stood there like a half-opened penknife , splattering the forecourt noisily . |
| 2 | She stood there for a long time , thinking the whole thing out . |
| 3 | There was a pathetic dignity about the old animal as she stood there against the mouldering timber of the partition , her eyes patient and undemanding . |
| 4 | She stood there in a full , swirling coat of silver-grey silk . |
| 5 | She stood there in the hot road in front of the prison door , and waited . |
| 6 | She stood there like a dark messiah with some unseen flock before her , and Pete could n't help but begin to assemble shapes out of the grainy darkness and to give them solidity and movement . |
| 7 | But as they stood there with the white jasmine making an aura of perfume around their heads , something in the mood of the evening seemed to change . |
| 8 | They stood there on the high stone balcony , the seven great lords of Chung Kuo , the sky a perfect blue overhead , the early morning sunlight glistening from the imperial yellow of their silks . |
| 9 | They stood there in a frightened cluster . |
| 10 | He stood there with the filthy little bits of orange sauce on his so-clean clothes and looking sheepish I do n't want any lunch , I snapped at him . |
| 11 | And her uncle with me beside you and whole wedding and the minister was saying , sit down and do n't he he brought her up the aisle , I do n't know whether her father 's coming back or something , and he says no I 'm not sitting like , he says no I 'm not moving back and he stood there for the whole wedding like , back . |
| 12 | He stood there in the crowded classroom , half listening to Mrs Willmot , and thought of the inexorable process going on all round him — the lives whose courses were being decided at this moment , behind the innocent-seeming chatter , the smiles , the faintly carnival atmosphere of families having a day out . |
| 13 | He stood there in the empty room a moment , frowning , hearing only the laughter from the terrace outside . |