Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] stood [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Without showing any sign of emotion he stood for a while at the head of the bier . |
| 2 | Cathy picked up the telephone which stood on a side table . |
| 3 | And then every year after that , they used to hold the one minute 's silence which the mill whistles went and of course you stood for a minute and then they went again and that was it over . |
| 4 | In 1913 Malevitch , whose work at this period showed traces of both Cubist and Futurist influence , was preparing to launch the Suprematist movement which stood for a more purely abstract style than anything yet seen . |
| 5 | a nationalism which stood upon a critique of the very idea of civil society , a movement supported by the bourgeoisie which rejected the idea of progress , the ideology of a political organisation fighting for the creation of a modern national State which accepted at the same time the ideology of ‘ enlightened anarchy ’ . |
| 6 | At the end of my final year I stood as a sabbatical officer for the Union . |
| 7 | On his way to mop up the bathroom he stood before a mirror admiring his Egyptian slimness of hip . |
| 8 | She lay on her back on a wooden trestle table which stood under a palm leaf awning in the shady corner of a broad courtyard in the Place of Healing . |
| 9 | Out in the street he stood for a while , obstructing the pavement . |
| 10 | Outside on the footpath he stood like a stone reading the letter . |