Example sentences of "[was/were] standing [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because we were standing outside the Japanese restaurant , I told Chase to go in and order some take-aways for about two o'clock while Martin and I would scout either end of the Place for Bunny 's truck . |
| 2 | Three or four people without seats were standing at the far dome car end , including the actress Angelica . |
| 3 | Two men were standing at the further end of the clearing shooting at a wand . |
| 4 | One was in the cockpit , at the controls ; the other two were standing on the rear platform , firing blasters at random towards the clifftop and overseeing the automatic fire of the hoverspeeder 's cannon . |
| 5 | They were standing on the lower landing watching . |
| 6 | They were standing on the lower section , with a fire door leading onto a split-level landing . |
| 7 | They were standing on the main staircase , two flights up from the party room . |
| 8 | At one wedding the bridegroom and best man were standing on the wrong place , with the best man prompting a tongue-tied groom in a stage whisper . |
| 9 | They were standing on the paved area behind the house : all the windows were dark , the garden chairs and the round table abandoned and vulnerable . |
| 10 | We were standing in the tiny lobby between the kitchen and the dining room , and she still had the clipboard clasped to her chest . |
| 11 | Oh only a couple of weeks , no they were standing in the common room and she knew he was a virgin right and they were still going out and she knew he was a virgin when they first started going out and Rox goes oh so are you a virgin then erm erm James and he goes no and she was still going out with him and she knew that it was n't with her , obviously , and , and Roxy goes oh who was it then and he goes oh just two , two birds I met in erm Portugal and |
| 12 | Corbett looked back across the galley to where Selkirk and de Craon were standing near the far ship rail . |
| 13 | Inside , Mandeville and Southgate were standing near the baptismal font . |
| 14 | Two men were standing near the main door . |
| 15 | ‘ When I arived he had led his two sisters out and they were standing by the front door . |
| 16 | The stench grew worse , making her gag , but it was not until Isabel was standing over the motionless form that she realised why . |
| 17 | He was standing over the reeking individual now , peering close to get a look at the face . |
| 18 | And love was standing outside the local supermarket collecting signatures for the campaign to keep Family Allowance as a separate benefit . |
| 19 | He was standing beside the raised floorboard , looking into the cavity . |
| 20 | Springfield himself was standing beside the open door of his car , which he had drawn up on the verge opposite the gates , angled so its headlights were bathing them in a pool of bright luminescence . |
| 21 | Kiku was standing beside the open window . |
| 22 | When a number of us here did a study of the 1984 Chesterfield by-election , where Tony Benn was standing for the first time , and asked constituents themselves what they felt about the broadcast coverage , they repeatedly used the word ‘ bias ’ to describe it . |
| 23 | The road suddenly appeared through the thinning trees and Jenna had to scramble down a bank , cross a ditch and she was standing on the firm tarmac of the main highway . |
| 24 | In March 1908 a crossover was laid near the top of Tamworth Road , so that a second car could reverse when one was standing on the terminal stub . |
| 25 | My eye fell on a page she had left on the kitchen table the other day and I had noted , before I could avert my eyes , a pretty scholarly history of my conversion to double-knotting , after an incident when I was unable to get out of the train at Greenwich one evening and found myself being carried on to Maze Hill , because someone was standing on the trailing lace of my shoe . |
| 26 | A third man was standing on the far side of the car . |
| 27 | Li Yuan was standing on the far side of the room , beside the ceremonial kang , one foot up on the ledge of it , his right hand stroking his unbearded chin . |
| 28 | Nicolo was standing on the far side of the room , talking with Bob Calder . |
| 29 | He was standing on the bottom stair when he heard footsteps coming up the back stairs from the kitchen and then Jane 's large dark eyes peered through the banisters at him . |
| 30 | Baptiste was standing on the bottom step of the wooden staircase , affecting surprise at the sight of her . |