Example sentences of "[coord] stood [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1880 he had had a political fling and stood as a Liberal candidate for the City of London in favour of disestablishment , temperance legislation , social and political reform . |
| 2 | He was Hampshire 's coach in 1939 and stood as a first-class umpire in 1949 , the year before his death . |
| 3 | One night when the last streamers had shivered away against the dawn sky , leaving its heaven blue merely bland , she walked away from her colony and stood at the furthest tip of the ice sheet . |
| 4 | They took no notice of him and stood on the front step , talking in low voices . |
| 5 | Cecilia went down the steps at West Hampstead station and stood on the lefthand platform waiting for the train to come down from Kilburn . |
| 6 | They scrambled over the rabbit netting and stood on the muddy track , flushed and panting , mud stains on their legs and clothes . |
| 7 | Charles collapsed like a glove puppet with the hand withdrawn , and stood for a long moment , sagging . |
| 8 | She had risen from her deep curtsey , and stood for a long moment gazing steadily into his face . |
| 9 | When Martha had gone as well , Tim picked up the whisky he had poured earlier and stood for a long time in the hallway . |
| 10 | She went up to her room , put the Diary in her drawer and stood for a long time , breathing on the window and drawing faces . |
| 11 | She walked one last time down the rickety boardwalk in front of the cabins , and stood for a long time looking down at the sleeping lodge , the moody lake beyond it . |
| 12 | I replaced the blanket over his head and stood for a few moments looking at the bodies in their neat little rows . |
| 13 | She put away the car , quietly locked the garage door and stood for a few moments looking out over the valley . |
| 14 | In 1940 Roosevelt broke with tradition and stood for a third term of office . |
| 15 | He went and stood over the crumpled heap that was Luke . |
| 16 | She should have avoided the Glass House , but she went there at every opportunity , and stood beside the streaming panes with her eyes closed , willing herself to capture something . |
| 17 | The threw back the bedclothes , shed her clinging nightgown and stood under a cool shower until she began to come alive . |
| 18 | Virginia pushed her bike on to the grass-verge and stood under the heavy foliage of the trees for shelter . |
| 19 | Severed eyes are best potted individually in good clean garden soil and stood in a shallow bowl of water with their growing points submerged . |
| 20 | They came and stood in a little group , disciplined and obedient . |
| 21 | The piglets slowed their headlong gallop to a trot , then , as though controlled by telepathy , they all stopped at once and stood in a pink group in one corner , |
| 22 | Willie pulled off the weighted shoes and stood in the dark hallway shivering helplessly , his teeth rattling inside his clamped jaw . |
| 23 | He inserted the key almost furtively and stood in the small vestibule and smelt the place — floor polish mixed with the bitter scent of chrysanthemums in a blue bowl . |
| 24 | The phone call finished , Jack Stone buttoned up his heavy jacket and stood in the darkened box , for a moment , peering through the windows at the desolate streets around him . |
| 25 | Suddenly , a girl aged about 16 walked up from one of the scattered houses in the village and stood in the same spot he intended to use for his photography . |
| 26 | If you went and stood in the same place now then obviously it would look different in that sense , would n't it so the background if you like would be different would n't it with high rise and maybe a different . |
| 27 | He marched to the lounge and stood by the large bay window , glaring at her furnishings . |
| 28 | He motioned an unwilling Adjutant and Sergeant out ahead of him and stood by the open door , frowning so deeply that Clarissa would have followed if Charity had n't risked leaving her defences and staked all on a final devastating attack . |
| 29 | He stopped , staring at her , appalled by the likeness , then went across and stood by the open hatchway , looking outwards , his neat-cut hair barely moving in the icy wind . |
| 30 | Cassie crossed the grass and stood by the little gate . |