Example sentences of "[pers pn] stood in a [adj] [noun sg] " 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 After that she stood in a hazy dream , listening to the words that made them husband and wife .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 They stood in a small circle and looked up at him , Dr. Howarth , Clifford Bradley , Miss Foley , Mrs. Bidwell .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 They stood in a tight bunch and craned their necks to see what was causing the commotion .
11 The Latin papa , or Greek pappas , ‘ Daddy ’ , was used by early Christians of a bishop to whom they stood in a filial relation .
12 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 .
13 It stood in a little square with dying trees around it .
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