Example sentences of "[pers pn] stood [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the end of my final year I stood as a sabbatical officer for the Union . |
| 2 | This done , I stood for a moment looking across at the broch islet . |
| 3 | I stood for a moment looking at the mattress on the bed where a knife had been used to open up the sides . |
| 4 | I stood with a group of officials and other bystanders . |
| 5 | I would send it swooping over and under hers , or dive it down to the sands while I stood on a dune cliff , pulling the kite down to nick tall towers of sand I 'd built , then pulling up again , the kite trailing a spray of sand through the air from the collapsing tower . |
| 6 | If I stood on a street corner somewhere , someone could slip me a small packet in exchange for a fiver and in a few hours I 'd be slumped on the floor of a public toilet : a Drug Statistic . |
| 7 | At an election rally in the Wembley Conference Centre in 1983 , I stood on a nail in my training shoes and it went nearly four centimetres into my foot . |
| 8 | I stood amid a gaggle of laughing students in frozen silence , and read the list over and over again . |
| 9 | She said , ‘ Well , if there 's nothing else for it ’ , and began to fold and manipulate the wedding dress while I stood like a doll , cold and alien and powerless . |
| 10 | On Monday morning , I stood in a queue at the Diamond , and waited for the Dublin coach . |
| 11 | And then every year after that , they used to hold the one minute 's silence which the mill whistles went and of course you stood for a minute and then they went again and that was it over . |
| 12 | And er I think in the junior school , it was in the juniors you did n't get punishment there as children in the first school , you stood in a corner , that was your punishment . |
| 13 | She was still sick at heart when she passed down through the last glade and found herself staring at the Lodge 's covert thatch , its closed door , She stood for a time in the yard outside , afraid to enter . |
| 14 | She stood for a moment on the other side of the room , sizing me up ( and me sizing her up ) , and then she came over to speak to me . |
| 15 | Dalgliesh waited until Meg had unlocked the front door and stepped inside before saying his final goodnight , and she stood for a moment watching his tall figure striding down the gravel path and into the darkness . |
| 16 | She stood for a moment , her eyes closed , trying to collect her thoughts , while she struggled to put on her gloves . |
| 17 | She stood for a moment behind the thick black curtain , unwilling to pull it aside . |
| 18 | It was something that had never happened before and she stood for a moment trying to control the thoughts that raced through her head . |
| 19 | She stood for a moment staring round at the flickering shadows thrown by the lone candle , the fire had died long since and the room was cold and suddenly lonely . |
| 20 | She stood for a moment looking at them , and saw how their heads were tilted in the listening attitudes of forest creatures , how their ears were pricked , and how their eyes were bright and intelligent . |
| 21 | She stood for a moment with her head on one side , listening intently . |
| 22 | She stood for a moment , looking round her , waiting for the onrush of some emotion — nostalgia , maybe , or regret . |
| 23 | She stood for a moment beside Melissa , looking up at the portrait . |
| 24 | Valerie Stevens had been in the house to get more coffee and as she stepped through the patio doors she stood for a moment staring at Rachel in horror , having only heard the last part of the conversation . |
| 25 | Sophie nodded as she cleaned up the wound , then , after giving an injection of antibiotic , she stood for a moment in thought . |
| 26 | She stood on a floor of trodden earth . |
| 27 | She stood on a chair and I used to have to draw the lines round the back of her legs with a pencil . |
| 28 | ‘ My private life , ’ she stood on a matter of principle to declare tartly , ‘ has nothing whatsoever to do with my work ! ’ |
| 29 | She stood in a queue at the single check-out ; the village store had supermarket aspirations without the amenities . |
| 30 | She seemed to vanish as quickly as she had appeared , leaving Ianthe to be pushed forward into the train , where she stood in a daze until she found herself sitting down in a seat offered to her by a small boy . |