Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] stand [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 However , there is a place in social research , and a very important one , for the type of interview which stands at the other extreme to the structured one , namely the non-standardised interview .
2 The only idea that seemed feasible was for the Collector to put on the rusty suit of armour which stood in the banqueting hall and to go out there with a scythe .
3 In the village shop , Mrs Hollidaye introduced Dot to the man in a brown overall who stood behind the wooden counter .
4 For a while I stood by the shattered doorway , wondering what to do .
5 He touched the black enamelled visor of his helmet in answer to the salute of the red-coated sentry who stood outside an expensive front door , then cantered on through Brussels ' fashionable streets until he reached a large house on the rue de la Blanchisserie .
6 However , she realised the wisdom of his words , but hunger and the sound of the lunch bell caused her to discard all thoughts of a long soak , and instead of running a bath she stood beneath the soothing waters of a hot shower .
7 After an hour on the flat we stood on an old snow patch at the foot of the Plaret cascades and looked straight up a perfect glacier valley to the hut , and beyond the Promontoire hut , glinting in the afternoon light , high on a southerly arm of La Meije .
8 If there exists a word which stands in a paronymic relation to one occurrence of a word form , but does not stand in the same relation to a second , syntactically identical occurrence of the same word form in a different context , then that word form is ambiguous , and the two occurrences exemplify different senses .
9 Pulling himself up from the floor he stood before the dying fire , his short fat legs and large stomach making Michael feel sick inside .
10 Panting with anticipation he stood by the nailed boards as the men inside opened the yard gate .
11 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 .
12 Something about the way she stood in the large unwieldy garment gave Benny courage .
13 Vitruvius also refers to a variation on the Doric Order which he calls Tuscan ; this has an unfluted column shaft which stands upon an Ionic-type base ( VII and VIII ) .
14 St Augustine did not explain how the mind could be an accurate chronometer for the timing of external events , but as the pioneer of the study of psychological time he stands in the front rank of those who have contributed to the understanding of our sense of time .
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