Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] stand [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once when giving a criticism at the College he found himself standing beside a cold radiator . |
| 2 | Willie found himself standing in a large field . |
| 3 | Then darkness enfolded her , and she found herself standing on a solid surface in a shadowed room , staring upwards at the underside of the dimple with a strange sense of having been reborn . |
| 4 | She found herself standing on a wide terrace , with steps that led away from the house . |
| 5 | Benny found herself standing in a smooth-floored entryway that opened on to the docks about ten feet further on . |
| 6 | ‘ Well , I imagined him standing on a wee planet about the size of a football — ’ |
| 7 | When he took the ale into the warm farmhouse living room and saw everyone standing around the crackling log fire with food and drinks in their hands , he thought again of what he had just seen through the kitchen window . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'll have to ask the doctor , ’ she said , and left him standing in the bare corridor . |
| 9 | When Not-Flaubert spotted his name on the piece of cardboard I was holding , he simply stopped pushing the trolley , left it standing among the shoving airport crowd and walked towards Jeeta and his wife-to-be , Jamila . |