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 . |