Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] standing [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Early fog had cleared and the airport manager and I were standing on the tarmac lining up the motorcade when my car phone rang . |
| 2 | I was standing on the side of the stage watching him . |
| 3 | ‘ I began to lose consciousness and felt that I was standing on the world 's edge aside of a high , dark space looking across it , thinking that I was about to enter into it . |
| 4 | I could not see what had happened , as I was standing on the settee to reach into the tank ( on a bookcase ) and the Meth blue was n't helping either . |
| 5 | But overhead — I was standing on the steps down to the gravel — the stars were out . |
| 6 | Well I tell you what I was doing , I was in the stern of the boat coming ashore with one oar in the stern of the boat , I was like hell you know , and I was standing on the sculling . |
| 7 | ‘ I was standing on the grass — just standing there . |
| 8 | J. Marshall , Tanners Hill Cottage , Crook : I was standing on the steps of Durham Crown Court waiting to go in the public gallery , the assizes were on . |
| 9 | In the break before he actually started , I was standing at the mirror brushing my hair and he came up , took the brush out of my hand — I had very long , waist-length , peroxide blonde hair in those days — and he said , ‘ What are you doing after the show ? ' |
| 10 | This guy went out with Lee next day , and I was standing at the back of the 9th green when Lee 's manager came running up to me and said , ‘ Willie , you 've got to take the bag — Lee 's fired the other guy . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I was standing at the sink after lunch with the usual daily mountain of washing at the side . |
| 12 | " I was standing at the ship 's side , and the chain caught on something and broke . |
| 13 | Now I was standing at the closed door listening to his absence . |
| 14 | At about three o'clock in the afternoon , I was standing at the door of the inn when I saw a blind man coming along the road . |
| 15 | ‘ Do you know , ’ said Jessica , ‘ I was standing at the bus stop once , and two little Catholic girls came along so sweet you would have thought that they were angels . |
| 16 | I was standing outside the Beverly Wilshire Hotel , in Los Angeles , talking to Cary Grant , when a woman saw me and she shrieked , ‘ You 're him ! |
| 17 | In a few seconds — it had been perhaps a minute in all since I had lost sight of them — I was standing under the tree , on an unrevealing carpet of shrivelled carats . |
| 18 | I was standing in the mortuary , flanked by two policemen , looking down at her . |
| 19 | I was standing in the wings on prompt side amid the varicosed tangle of cables webbing the black stage . |
| 20 | I was standing in the Hemingford Arms one Friday evening , minding my own business , having a drink with a few friends , when Simon introduced me to someone he knew called Keith . |
| 21 | I was standing in the kitchen , he did n't see me but I saw him . |
| 22 | I was standing in the bows looking forward when suddenly our gently hissing bow-wave turned into a glowing mass of green fire , which reflected from our hull and bathed us in a ghostly light . |
| 23 | I was standing in the back of a small boat , drifting down some English river I 've never seen — the kind with dappled , overhang-ing leaves reflected in the water — grasping a punt-pole in my hands and propelling the flat boat like it was something I 'd done for years . |
| 24 | And nobody could get out of the cupboard , because I was standing in the doorway . |
| 25 | And then I opened up on Saturday morning , first thing and there I was standing in the shop . |
| 26 | ‘ I was standing by the graveside and one of the Kavanagh sisters had said to Helen Moloney , Katherine 's sister : ‘ It 's perfectly all right to use Patrick 's grave . |
| 27 | Arthur Nicholls was sitting by her bed , and I was standing by the door . |
| 28 | ‘ No , that one time when I was standing underneath the stage was close enough for me . |
| 29 | And then the silence of the hillside was rent by a further sound , a high buzzing at first like a gigantic and enraged wasp , and then a roar and a rending of the air , so that Molly felt as though she were standing on the bridge of a warship and some huge Exocet missile was being hurled in her direction . |
| 30 | She felt as though she were standing on the edge of a great chasm , with him on the other side urging her to jump across to him . |