Example sentences of "[pers pn] stood [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the end of my final year I stood as a sabbatical officer for the Union . |
| 2 | I stood under the shower . |
| 3 | This done , I stood for a moment looking across at the broch islet . |
| 4 | I stood for a moment looking at the mattress on the bed where a knife had been used to open up the sides . |
| 5 | Dad Tam : " You promise me you will never tell anybody " til " am deed that I stood for the man who made that statue . " |
| 6 | When er I stood for the election of the national organizers for the East of Scotland and I was successful there and I left the Edinburgh branch in May nineteen sixty six to start work with the head office in nine May nineteen sixty six . |
| 7 | I stood with a group of officials and other bystanders . |
| 8 | I stood with the breeze flapping at my collar , watching the spin-drift sand , promising that one day I would write about this place . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I stood on the winner 's rostrum swathed in the Union Jack , the photographers ' light bulbs flashing , the crowd clapping , cheering , other Union Jacks being waved from side to side . |
| 13 | As I stood on the footbridge I had a good view of the station . |
| 14 | ‘ When we pulled out of Jaffa , I stood on the stern and looked out over the old city , ’ he said . |
| 15 | I stood on the deck , watching the two spires of Dun Laoghaire receding into the distance . |
| 16 | In 1985 I stood on the quayside , shivering in the cold drizzle , to watch Arthur Hutton plant the hedge , closely watched by his grandson Martin , who hopes one day to follow his grandfather in keeping up the custom . |
| 17 | At length I stood on the ground , up to my ankles in fresh-fallen snow . |
| 18 | I stood on the parapet , looking out over the town of Swindon , willing myself to feel less disembodied . |
| 19 | Certainly she presented me with my medal for the 100 metres and as I stood on the plinth she did not bat an eyelid . |
| 20 | Recently I stood on the dereliction that is Lindow Moss in Cheshire . |
| 21 | I stood on the doorstep alone , pressing my lids together , breathing in , breathing out . |
| 22 | I stood on the fringe of the little group for a few moments waiting for a chance to speak to Lovat . |
| 23 | I stood on the step with my hamper . |
| 24 | As I stood on the walkway , the water level reached above my knees , and I waded along beside the wall in the direction of the lower door and the river . |
| 25 | I stood at the foot of the bed and watched my grandfather go to sleep . |
| 26 | And then he was pushed roughly on , and suddenly , inexplicably my mind was filled with a vivid picture of Christ looking down at me as I stood at the foot of the cross . |
| 27 | Employing a lounge-lizard gait , he swaggered towards me as I stood at the bar waiting for my Coke . |
| 28 | I stood at the bar with the Morning Line , WITCH WHO LIED FOR DR SEX . |
| 29 | I saw him a few times more after that , in the months that followed , coming slowly up the lane from the station , as Millie and I stood at the gate . |
| 30 | I stood at the top of the slope . |