Example sentences of "[noun sg] stand [adv] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He made a macabre figure standing there with wires up his nose and the whites of his uprolled eyes showing through his empty faceplate . |
| 2 | The veins in Jonadab 's neck stood out like whipcords , as he tried to control his voice . |
| 3 | Nana was small and scrawny , and the sinews in her neck stood out like guy-ropes above the demure white collar of her dark blue dress . |
| 4 | It was pointed out to him — a small , plain , vaulted room with only a table for an altar and gaily-painted saints carved in wood standing about like skittles at a fair . |
| 5 | They watched the horses follow the tractor round the ever narrowing stand of corn in the centre of the field , and the tinkers who came to get work stood by with dogs and shot the rabbits that came surging out . |
| 6 | In the semi-darkness the houses around the village and the church in the centre of the green stood out like monuments with their shadows changing their shapes from time to time as a cloud obscured part of the moon . |
| 7 | They were told , now was the time to find the courage to stand up to terrorists , |
| 8 | Runner still stood motionless , eyes staring straight ahead , the blue veins in his bulbous red nose standing out like lines on a map . |
| 9 | He was n't going to be as heavily built as his father , but was lithe and agile , and she loved to watch him going after gulls ' eggs out by Blackbottle Rocks , his long legs braced against the cliff face and the muscles in his neck and back standing out like cords as he heaved himself up over a ledge . |
| 10 | Then , he could soak in the vivid feeling of the song until the sweat stood out in gobbets on his forehead and his veins swelled in his neck like vines and Nunzia and Maria Filippa listening would wring their hands , invoking the protection of all the saints against that winged demon Fate flapping at his back . |
| 11 | Pakistan 's judges have not in the past stood up to presidents . |
| 12 | Approaching from Cozumel or the north , the Mayan temple at Tulum in Mexico 's Yucatan province stands out from miles away , a square mass in a small indentation on an otherwise low-lying and featureless coastline . |
| 13 | Scott squeezed more tightly , the muscles in his forearm standing out like chords . |
| 14 | Rising from a high crag above the fertile Cheshire Plain , Beeston Castle stands out for miles around , drawing you like a magnet from afar . |
| 15 | ‘ Them stuck in there , all they can see is bars , an' us saying ‘ Look at them , are n't they sweet ’ , and them with legs that can run a hundred miles and skin made for boiling heat standing there in cages in rain and snow and hailstorms and having babies that 've never seen the bush and the jungle and the step — ’ |