Example sentences of "[pers pn] stood [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They made the driver help them , but I stood to one side stamping my feet to keep warm and watching the horizon with keen interest . |
| 2 | ‘ What would you give me if I stood on that boulder on one leg ? ’ asked Christopher , eyeing a small rock on the extreme edge of the cliff . |
| 3 | As I stood on one foot to remove them , the little cabin shifted on its suspension but there was no embarrassment , not even in the disparity between the utility of our underwear and the transcendence of our desire . |
| 4 | He held me while I stood on one leg to massage the injured toe . |
| 5 | As my companion remarked , the oldies are goldies and you ca n't get much ( g ) older than ‘ I stood on this stage 30 years ago and I was so successful they 've asked me back tonight . ’ |
| 6 | I stood at that window and watched you for at least two minutes ! |
| 7 | Early one morning , in the merry month of May , I stood in this dining room watching a group of climbers from all over the world being introduced to The Great Tradition . |
| 8 | She stood to one side and observed this pathetic self-deluding fifty-two-year-old in a state of romantic yearning and sexual excitation . |
| 9 | She stood to one side as the woman got up and , casting the strait-jacket aside , went across to the cot , bending down over it to lift and cradle the child . |
| 10 | She stood at that door waiting |
| 11 | For she knew where she stood with that family . |
| 12 | He set her down on the landing and she stood on one foot , using the wall for support while he opened his living-room door . |
| 13 | For a few minutes she stood in shocked silence ; she had been so sure that the rider from the woods had been herself … but now , realizing that the lover she had seen had been Morthen , she felt angry and upset . |
| 14 | Viola Machin , nevertheless , seemed impervious to it : she stood in bosomy grief , in a becoming coat of umber shade , dabbing her eyes at the pathetic bits of the service ; Desmond , in a heavy black coat , managed only an insurance agent 's decorous grief ; and Hilary looked as if cheerfulness might keep breaking through — which would probably , after all , be what Hilda would have liked most . |
| 15 | She needed someone to talk to about it all , needed a sharer of secrets , an ear to listen to her plans and , above all , someone to agree that she was on the right course , that both shopping expedition and holiday were what she stood in urgent need of . |
| 16 | He waved to her from the gate , where she stood like any housewife seeing off her man . |
| 17 | With heavy hearts we stood on either side of the broken body . |
| 18 | The Fish got us a good position at the back of the club , where we stood on wooden beer crates holding on to each other as the floor seemed about to crack open with heat and stomping . |
| 19 | We stood for some time watching the ‘ Try your strength ’ machine which was always sited by The Fawcett Statue on Blue Boar Row . |
| 20 | In fact they stood for National War Museum . |
| 21 | As they stood on either side of the door looking at one another she felt as if a magic elixir was being created , ready to cure a disease . |
| 22 | Their eyes were identically glazed in male and female as they stood on either side of a seated broadclothed patriarch . |
| 23 | Glaring from one to the other as they stood on either side of the bed , she said crossly to Lucy , ‘ So you 've brought him to see me at last . |
| 24 | Music played softly in the background as they stood on either side of the hearth , smiling uncertainly at one another like former lovers reunited after a long absence and wondering whether they still had anything in common . |
| 25 | The images were still as clear as the rain that had fallen so dispiritedly on the mourners as they stood at one side of the grave while the rector had intoned the fateful words . |
| 26 | After all the hassle they should know exactly where they stood with each other , Merrill thought as she dressed on Saturday evening . |
| 27 | They stood with rigid tension listening to the brooding silence of the jungle all around them . |
| 28 | Now , bearded to bandaged face , they stood in utter stillness . |
| 29 | When those brief moments of ecstasy were over and the everyday world took precedence again , they stood in shocked silence while Bert Rafferty carried Celia up the cliff . |
| 30 | They stood in deep shadow by the wall of the bridge . |