Example sentences of "[subord] he stood [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She put her arms round him where he stood on the threshold of her room . |
| 2 | In his theology , however , Hooker was not simply a traditionalist ; although he stood within the mainstream of the Calvinist consensus on the issue of predestination , he challenged many of the assumptions held by both credal and experimental Calvinists . |
| 3 | As he rushed onwards it lengthened and curved , until he stood at the edge of a cold volcanic cauldron , looking down at the mountain 's secret , a still , dark lake which gleamed green at the foot of the crags . |
| 4 | Taking advantage of the cover provided by the soft throbbing music , he glided along the line of the wall until he stood outside the door of the private bedroom . |
| 5 | If he stood on the shelf above the door , he could probably — possibly — prise the catch further open and maybe squeeze in . |
| 6 | It seemed a shame that while he stood in the Chuckwagon queue he called his girlfriend ‘ Tray ’ . |
| 7 | A day , days , must have passed since he stood beside the lake . |
| 8 | His hair , which he had cut himself in one of the gales of thrift that blew up in him every few weeks , kept getting into his eyes and caused him to see a charming rainbow when he stood under a street lamp to look up at Sam 's room — something he had done too often . |
| 9 | When he stood in the middle of the road waving his arms it was only because he was hungry and wanted his dinner , now you 'll have to trundle him about in a wheelbarrow like a dead sheep , you 'll have no time for skirmishing . |
| 10 | ‘ She never ceases to amaze me , ’ he said , Perrier water with lime clutched to his chest as he stood on the balcony above the stage where Kylie was ridding herself forever of her cutesy image . |
| 11 | As he stood on the stage he felt pouring out from the audience that most British of reflexes : the will for the underdog to win . |
| 12 | As he stood on the steps before the heavy front door and dug in his pocket for his keys he could hear the ringing of a telephone , blanked and muffled by several layers of brick and plaster . |
| 13 | ‘ So what you learn from such a bold step ? ’ asked Dan Salmon as he stood on the doorstep of his shop , skull cap on the back of his head , thumbs lodged in the black waistcoat pockets that proudly displayed his half-hunter watch . |
| 14 | As he stood on the tee with the green five hundred yards away , Kyle must have been thinking of another birdie , possibly an eagle . |
| 15 | She could tell this by looking at his back as he stood at the bar ordering more drinks . |
| 16 | Not yesterday , Peter thought grimly , as he stood at the kitchen table laying the tea tray with his mother 's china ; but certainly last week or the week before . |
| 17 | ‘ Did you call the police ? ’ he asked , as he stood at the kitchen door watching her brew Darjeeling . |
| 18 | Lee watched Gabriel as he stood at the window facing out . |
| 19 | Evans got his blow in first as he stood at the door , ushered them into a large office overlooking the Kaiserstrasse . |
| 20 | As he stood at the door trying to persuade her of the importance of other more pressing political issues , one of her cats shot out of the door , into the road and under the wheels of a passing lorry . |
| 21 | In light of this , he expected no reward but this day he knew he had received one as he stood at the door of a ward of children on whom he had operated , now sleeping peacefully and painlessly . |
| 22 | In the first as he stood at the mouth of the cave , a typhoon burst on the mountainside , bringing rocks crashing down . |
| 23 | Sometimes Flavia Sherman wept as though with grief , and although the storm drowned most of her cries Joseph heard the faint sounds of his mother sobbing as he stood outside the hut in the torrential downpour . |
| 24 | Phil Jay , 50 , was assaulted in September as he stood outside the Plantation Hotel in Chester . |
| 25 | He rather hoped his wife would wake and catch him like this , unshaven , hair greasy and uncombed , and as he stood beside the bed he farted quite loudly , as if to remind her that she deserved someone as awful as him . |
| 26 | She watched as he stood beside the car for a moment looking up towards the house . |
| 27 | He felt as if he was about to take his first woman , and as he stood beneath the trees , watching her running towards him , Fergus felt himself trembling . |
| 28 | Joe , looking dumbly at him as he stood in the hall , saw a man whose youth seemed to have fled from him . |
| 29 | His voice trembled as he stood in the pulpit . |
| 30 | Something about the note of that call , something about Thorfinn 's manner as he stood in the yard listening to the stammering rider who stood grasping his saddle and speaking into his ear made Eochaid 's shaven scalp tingle , and his body shrank , for a moment , from its clothing . |