Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] stand [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | where R represents the number of correct responses for the right ear/visual field and I stands for the left ear/visual field . |
| 2 | Nellie Tanner had reached Aggie 's front door and she stood over the dumpy , dark-haired woman . |
| 3 | ‘ Come in a moment , ’ she said , and we stood in the darkened hall . |
| 4 | Three Mutawas had been told of the indignation from the foreign community and they stood with the armed guards at the entry of the delivery theatre to ensure that no sympathetic foreigner assisted the girl to escape . |
| 5 | Creed had requisitioned an open car , and he stood for the entire procession , as a mark of his own personal respect for the deceased . |
| 6 | In 1981 he was chairman of the Computer Retailers ' Association , and he stood as a local government candidate for Rother Valley in the 1987 General Election . |
| 7 | He was certainly no taller than me and he stood in an instinctive boxer 's crouch . |
| 8 | I could hear the sound of rent cloth in my head , but I stood on a wooden chair while Lili pinned the seams closer , standing quietly like a broken horse to be saddled and bridled . |
| 9 | The remarks probably refer to illness , but they stand in a metaphoric sense for the condition that Renaissance women usually confronted . |
| 10 | She had a great temptation to rest against him , but he stood with a swift movement that was all anger and sarcasm . |
| 11 | As instructed , the building was largely three-storey , but it stood on a high basement and was dominated by a spiky ventilation tower centrally placed over the War Department . |