Example sentences of "[pers pn] stood [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I stood as the Green Party candidate in May 1988 and 1989 . |
| 2 | I stood over the other side of the road from it and watched . |
| 3 | I stood for a long time in a telephone box just to keep out of the slicing rain . |
| 4 | I stood for a long while looking at Voting Right . |
| 5 | I stood for a long time , staring at the mirror . |
| 6 | But our to avoid that situation I left and went to work with which kept me in the Edinburgh branch and within three or four weeks I stood for the local organizer and had not been successful . |
| 7 | I could hear the sound of rent cloth in my head , but I stood on a wooden chair while Lili pinned the seams closer , standing quietly like a broken horse to be saddled and bridled . |
| 8 | I stood on the round wall and wound the handle as fast as I could , but when the bucket was still just out of reach , the rope kept slipping so I could not reach the bucket . |
| 9 | When my holiday had the goodness to be over , I stood on the usual rush-hour bus and read a schoolboy 's comic strips over his shoulder . |
| 10 | ‘ When I stood on the first tee in the morning I could hardly see the fairway , ’ said the Atherstone club-mate and friend of Paul Broadhurst , the Ryder Cup player . |
| 11 | I stood on the final tee with Ken Schofield and imagined the kind of pressure build-up the players were feeling . |
| 12 | As I stood on the tufted grass , surrounded by natural beauty , I felt as if I 'd come to another world |
| 13 | It was once full of treasures , but all I could think about as I stood on the battlemented roof , looking out over the Aegean , was that a disciple of Christ 's had sat in his cell in a little monastery half-way up the hill recording the extraordinary revelations he had been vouchsafed . |
| 14 | Just over five and a half years later , I stood on the same spot and watched the Israelis drive down the same road to be greeted in precisely the same way by the same Christians on the same balconies . |
| 15 | I stood at the front door of No. 5 , watching Dana straddle his bike , adjust his backpack and wave cheerily to me as he roared off down the road . |
| 16 | I stood at the front door for a long time being soaked by the rain . |
| 17 | I stood at the front door and it was around my ankles , within five minutes it was around my knees , ’ said Joanne . |
| 18 | When Paul 's score at the 17th came on they were close to erupting , so while Nick signed his card I stood beside the 18th green . |
| 19 | Oh , I stood outside the primary school this morning and spoke to the other mothers , and none of them want anything to do with it . |
| 20 | Mr and Mrs Smith , the benign proprietors , were always good to me , giving me a lolly or a ‘ black jack ’ every time I shopped there , and I was looking forward to the treat as I stood behind a small queue masking the counter . |
| 21 | For a while I stood by the shattered doorway , wondering what to do . |
| 22 | I stood by the open window and the dogs licked my hands as I listened . |
| 23 | I stood in a short sling and laybacked over the bulge on a jammed stone into a smooth scoop . |
| 24 | I stood in a white wilderness , and perceived that to gather wood for burning in such conditions was not easy . |
| 25 | I stood in the slanting sunlight , warm and yellow around me , the stench of burning flesh and grass on the wind , the smoke rising into the air from burrows and cadavers , grey and black , the sweet smell of leaking unburned petrol coming from the Flame-thrower where I 'd left it , and I breathed deeply . |
| 26 | I pulled up in a gateway , Sam jumped out and we went through into a field ; and as the beagle scampered over the glittering turf I stood in the warm sunshine amid the melting frost and looked back at the dark damp blanket which blotted out the low country but left this jewelled world above it . |
| 27 | I stood in the little clearing round the ruined walls . |
| 28 | You knew where you stood with the Cold War . |
| 29 | She stood outside the back door for a moment . |
| 30 | I had an old air-raid shelter , partly dug into the ground because of the slope : there was a load of stones on top , waiting to turn the shelter into an apple store disguised as a rockery , and when Mrs Wilson saw this she stood for a long time looking at the hump in the ground and the pile of stones . |