Example sentences of "[was/were] standing on the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One was in the cockpit , at the controls ; the other two were standing on the rear platform , firing blasters at random towards the clifftop and overseeing the automatic fire of the hoverspeeder 's cannon . |
| 2 | They were standing on the front steps of Crystal Springs House . |
| 3 | They were standing on the lower section , with a fire door leading onto a split-level landing . |
| 4 | They were standing on the lower landing watching . |
| 5 | They were standing on the main staircase , two flights up from the party room . |
| 6 | At one wedding the bridegroom and best man were standing on the wrong place , with the best man prompting a tongue-tied groom in a stage whisper . |
| 7 | We were standing on the black-veined grey marble stairs of the Twentieth-Century Building . |
| 8 | They were standing on the paved area behind the house : all the windows were dark , the garden chairs and the round table abandoned and vulnerable . |
| 9 | He was standing on the exposed rocks at the highest point of the headland ; the ground fell away steeply from here , mostly bare rock and scrub , with just a narrow shelf of land that was almost a beach down at the water 's edge . |
| 10 | The road suddenly appeared through the thinning trees and Jenna had to scramble down a bank , cross a ditch and she was standing on the firm tarmac of the main highway . |
| 11 | Sara curtsied , and backed to the door ; and it was only when it had closed behind her and she was standing on the long , tiled landing that she realized that her future mother-in-law had not once asked about her family in Ireland . |
| 12 | In March 1908 a crossover was laid near the top of Tamworth Road , so that a second car could reverse when one was standing on the terminal stub . |
| 13 | My eye fell on a page she had left on the kitchen table the other day and I had noted , before I could avert my eyes , a pretty scholarly history of my conversion to double-knotting , after an incident when I was unable to get out of the train at Greenwich one evening and found myself being carried on to Maze Hill , because someone was standing on the trailing lace of my shoe . |
| 14 | A third man was standing on the far side of the car . |
| 15 | Li Yuan was standing on the far side of the room , beside the ceremonial kang , one foot up on the ledge of it , his right hand stroking his unbearded chin . |
| 16 | Nicolo was standing on the far side of the room , talking with Bob Calder . |
| 17 | He was standing on the bottom stair when he heard footsteps coming up the back stairs from the kitchen and then Jane 's large dark eyes peered through the banisters at him . |
| 18 | Baptiste was standing on the bottom step of the wooden staircase , affecting surprise at the sight of her . |
| 19 | He was standing on the principled vision of his predecessor whose humanity had persuaded an awesome number of white Americans to re-examine their notions about ‘ minority ’ and ‘ majority ’ issues . |
| 20 | Jessica was standing on the polished floor , beside the polished table , in the elegant and lovely room . |
| 21 | Felipe was standing on the cliff-top and looking down , and Maggie felt guilty again as belatedly she remembered the horse . |
| 22 | And in yet another jiffy he was standing on the very edge of the great big dark Forest of Sin ! |
| 23 | It was not until he was standing on the very edge that he saw Signor Fixit . |
| 24 | The Berne-bound goods train was standing on the next track down ; all he had to do was cover the twenty yards between the two tracks and find himself an empty freight car . |