Example sentences of "[noun sg] stood [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a telephone by the bed but he decided to go back to the hall , where another instrument stood on a table under the bannisters . |
| 2 | A grey building with a sagging roof stood inside a stone enclosure with a wind-blown rowan tree beside it . |
| 3 | The late 1970s ' level of manufacturing investment stood as a record until 1987 . |
| 4 | A large wooden statue of the Virgin and Child stood on a stone plinth whilst around the walls were raised tombs , simple and square , lacking any effigy or ornamentation . |
| 5 | The Lad stood for a moment , his hands caressing the formless thing . |
| 6 | Opinion polls in August had shown 55 per cent support for the party , the highest level since its foundation in 1947 , and its membership stood at a record 5,400,000 members , or some 7 per cent of the adult population . |
| 7 | The Financial Times of April 10 reported that Poland 's trade surplus stood at a record $780,000,000 at the end of March , stemming from 6.5 per cent rise in exports and a 21 per cent fall in imports . |
| 8 | Breeze stood for a moment , listening to its savage , eternal music , watching the grey-green water swirling round the half-submerged rocks . |
| 9 | A uniformed policeman stood under a lamp , his hands clasped behind his back . |
| 10 | An empty bottle of wine and a bottle half full of mineral water stood on a cabinet . |
| 11 | Jamie began to let him out daily , down three flights of stairs to a yard where buckets of water stood beside a drain . |
| 12 | A grand Royal hunting lodge in Robin 's day stood in a clearing in the wilderness in Sherwood Forest . |
| 13 | It was not the smell which deterred her but the fact that there were two girls present : one sat on a table swinging her legs , while the other stood by a sink . |
| 14 | The small earthenware cup of an oil lamp stood in a neuk in the wall with the stub of a candle beside it , stuck in a mess of wax . |
| 15 | Indeed the 1974 level of output stood as a record until 1988 ! |
| 16 | And each four-unit block stood on a quarter-acre plot , allowing each family a seventy-five-by-thirty-foot vegetable patch . |
| 17 | For diverse and often disparate groupings , the language of scientificity stood as a metaphor and a referent , which condensed specific anxieties and signified different solutions to different people . |
| 18 | A girl in an Edwardian dress stood by a vase of roses on an improbable Corinthian pedestal , while painted foliage drooped sentimentally across the background . |
| 19 | Few soldiers passed the entrance test : the candidate stood in a hole in the ground up to his waist , wearing no armour . |
| 20 | A low folding bed stood against a wall with a single red blanket on it . |
| 21 | Every leg of every bed stood in a jar of water to frustrate the ruthless ants , while the ‘ hospital corners ’ of the bedding were aligned with a draughtsman 's precision — even though the linen , I noticed , was yellowish and patched . |
| 22 | The Headmaster stood on a stool to conduct the lifting and Mr Slipper waited eagerly , shinier than ever . |
| 23 | The young man stood for a moment on an overhanging ledge of the bank , looking down at the water ; the dog swam round and round below ; the man 's body was flecked all over with light and the shadow patterns of leaves , so that he seemed some human extension of the place . |
| 24 | The minister also claimed that , following a recent high profile advertising campaign , enquiries to join the regiment stood at a month . |
| 25 | Finally , on turning a corner , they entered a small area in which a large slab of stone stood beside a table covered in smaller fragments . |
| 26 | The staircase stood in a garden overlooked by both the first floor and a ground-floor flat let to the plaintiffs . |
| 27 | They reached the plateau where Rosie 's villa stood in a row of similar ones . |
| 28 | The vaulted dome of the booking-hall stood at a height of 65 ft. from the floor and the outer dome above reached a height of 108 ft . |
| 29 | Later the royal couple stood on a hillside overlooking the border with communist North Korea and surveyed the land on which British and Chinese troops engaged in fierce combat more than 40 years ago . |
| 30 | There was a long queue ; before me an Asian couple stood with a trolley piled ludicrously with shabby luggage . |