Example sentences of "[noun sg] standing [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | whether the girl standing on the opposite side of Highgate Hill ( or Highgate West Hill ) with the long dark hair blowing forwards over her shoulder will turn so that he can see her face ; and if so , whether the face will be the revelation that the long dark hair promises ; and what a face would have to be like to be the revelation that one always expects … |
| 2 | whether the girl standing on the opposite side of the crossroads , with her face hidden by the long dark hair falling over her shoulders as she waits to cross the road , head turned to watch the oncoming traffic , will look straight ahead so that he can see her face : and if so , whether it will fulfil his hopes ; and whether the fulfilment of his hopes would in itself be a kind of disappointment . |
| 3 | And now , here was this boy standing by the big pool , as cool as a cucumber and wearing his helmet . |
| 4 | ’ Her old fellow 's smashing the place up and so I says , ‘ Listen , there 's a bobby standing in the next street . ’ |
| 5 | The two trees : the phrase " good and evil " may well be a Hebrew idiom standing for the full range of moral knowledge represented by the two extremes . |
| 6 | At night the place was jumping , the whistling urinals were all occupied , and then the smell of piss and semen was the smell of ecstatic terror , for we never knew when the place would be raided by the cops , and the person standing at the next stall playing with himself might be a copper 's nark , an informer or an agent provocateur . |
| 7 | Examples would be : where the act is not seen , as when the victim is asleep ; where the victim believes that the gun was unloaded ( Lamb [ 1967 ] 2 QB 981 ) ; where the victim knows by the accused 's words that the threat will not take place ( Tuberville v Savage ( 1669 ) 86 ER 684 ; or where the accused could not put his threat into effect : the usual illustrations are shaking a fist while on a non-stop train at a person standing on the platform and doing the same to a person standing on the opposite bank of a fast-flowing and wide river where there is no bridge . |
| 8 | The downward block , used against kicks , is executed with the student standing in the ready stance . |
| 9 | Walking exercises your legs and buttock muscles and builds up stamina , but a few add-on exercises will really pay dividends — though you might still have trouble standing after the first day on your skis . |
| 10 | This came from a man standing behind the shrill woman . |
| 11 | He was some three shots clear of the field standing on the 14th tee , but then lost this advantage after he recorded a double-bogey and two bogeys in the last six holes . |
| 12 | ‘ I glimpsed the King in his brilliant surcoat standing before the royal banners , the Lion and the Falcon . |
| 13 | It was just like , just like looking at any ordinary cup standing in the black ebony stand , and er lions head in each side with rings in it 's mouth . |
| 14 | I went into the cabin and saw a huge shape standing over the dead body . |