Example sentences of "[noun sg] be stand on the " in BNC.

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1 Now the stranger was standing on the quayside , watching several straining seamen carry a large , brass-bound chest down the gangplank .
2 Zack was standing on the road by the driver 's open door , looking at him across the roof of the car .
3 A postman 's standing on the doorstep .
4 And the golden beast was standing on the footpath in front of Anabelle , looking at her with its huge brown eyes .
5 The Berne-bound goods train was standing on the next track down ; all he had to do was cover the twenty yards between the two tracks and find himself an empty freight car .
6 By the time she was ten years old the nearest she came to having a bath was to stand on the bathmat and sponge herself down .
7 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 .
8 A man is standing on the bank of a treacherous river at the instant a child falls into the river , nearby .
9 A man was standing on the path looking at her .
10 A third man was standing on the far side of the car .
11 As the train halted , the man was standing on the platform , obviously waiting to board the train for the return journey .
12 The man was standing on the grass verge watching her .
13 Nicolo was standing on the far side of the room , talking with Bob Calder .
14 Emmie was standing on the beach , hands crossed over her breast .
15 The questionnaire for the survey began with a few brief factual questions about personal details , and a second , more important part of the schedule contained batteries of questions aimed at measuring an individual 's standing on the scales mentioned earlier .
16 Keith goes for the goal line , looks around , he 's all by himself in the end zone and he does his patented wiggle , the ancient dance of triumph and sex , all hips and contained muscle and bursting joy , forget the penalty , celebrating his touchdown and his run and his body , and little Jimmy Grady from the fourth year is standing on the path looking at him .
17 However , if the managing director is regularly hitting the bottle , the company 's standing on the FT indices is doomed to suffer .
18 Baptiste was standing on the bottom step of the wooden staircase , affecting surprise at the sight of her .
19 The porter was standing on the platform , his hands dug into his overall pockets .
20 The man and his brother were standing on the platform minding their own business . ’
21 Revelation fourteen and lo a lion was standing on the Mount Zion and with him a Hundred and Forty and four thousand which were redeemed from the Earth .
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