Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] stand [prep] a " in BNC.
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1 | So I had stood for a little while on the bridge and saluted as the ship went down after all . |
2 | I had remembered the last time I had stood in a garden with a man . |
3 | There was no way I wanted to be robbed again and I determined if I had to stand in a queue it would be with this chain in my hand . |
4 | Arthur Leopold of County Cork had taken the picture , and the first time Ellie had tiptoed into the bedroom she had stood for a long time staring at the photograph , because it was the first time she had ever seen the likeness of her dead mother . |
5 | The house we found stood on a hill amidst fine old elm trees , looking south over the Tyne Valley and River South Tyne , midway between the villages of Bardon Mill and Haltwhistle . |
6 | We had to stand in a line . |
7 | He blamed political bias , but when he had stood as a Labour candidate in the 1945 elections in which the socialists swept to post-war victory , Hugo had not won his seat . |
8 | Vividly could he still recall his nurses preventing him from going to her there , and he knew he had stood at a window just like this , gazing with longing through the trees to the building where his mother was imprisoned . |