Example sentences of "[pers pn] stand [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | I stand in a five-pointed star position in the middle of the room while the doghandler runs his hands along my limbs . |
2 | I stand in a light mist of rain . |
3 | ‘ I stand in a British book shop with my mouth agape . |
4 | I stood for a long time in a telephone box just to keep out of the slicing rain . |
5 | I stood for a long while looking at Voting Right . |
6 | I stood for a long time , staring at the mirror . |
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 | 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 . |
9 | I stood in a short sling and laybacked over the bulge on a jammed stone into a smooth scoop . |
10 | I stood in a white wilderness , and perceived that to gather wood for burning in such conditions was not easy . |
11 | The index-linked gilts on the market have maturities of up to 2024 and most of them stand at a substantial premium to their par value . |
12 | She stands for a long moment . |
13 | If you are to be awkward then my mother will not know where she stands for a good deal of time . ’ |
14 | ‘ If you stand in a real landscape and pick out with your eyes a path ahead , then walk the path and find it was a good route to have chosen , why , that is nothing mystical . |
15 | Whether you stand in a pristine lowland rainforest , beside a road or in an urban park , any casual glance towards the earth will quickly pick out ants , from a few to many individuals — and often from several species . |
16 | If Vic says could you stand in a different way or use the pole like this and tries to demonstrate they simply wo n't . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | There she stood for a long time , gazing out to sea , her heart full of sadness and her eyes full of tears . |
19 | When he had gone , she stood for a long time in front of the looking-glass that hung over the fire , her hands pressed to her cheeks , her face quite alive with excitement . |
20 | She stood for a long time , trying to make sense of her feelings , the words he had said tumbling around in her brain . |
21 | She was defeated when she stood as a National Labour candidate in 1931 . |
22 | After that she stood in a hazy dream , listening to the words that made them husband and wife . |
23 | She stood in a dark stifling cell , the woman mumbling by her side . |
24 | A dream in which she stood in a glorious , sweet-scented , flower-filled garden watching a tall , golden-haired man playing with beautiful blonde , blue-eyed children , all miniature replicas of himself . |
25 | It was as if she stood in a noisy limbo ; all the yesterdays had gone as if they had never been and all the tomorrows were no more than a tantalising promise . |
26 | She stood in a large yard with a glass of white wine in her hand and it spilt down the front of her red dress when she jumped at the banging noise of a firework . |
27 | In the branch of the Banco dell'Annunziazione a girl , whose face was a mask of disappointment nobly borne and from whose carmined lips dangled a cigarette miraculously balancing a tube of ash , clattered calculations as she stood before an upright typewriter and , in less time than she had expected , Molly was in possession of a mound of hundred thousand lire notes . |
28 | After an hour on the flat we stood on an old snow patch at the foot of the Plaret cascades and looked straight up a perfect glacier valley to the hut , and beyond the Promontoire hut , glinting in the afternoon light , high on a southerly arm of La Meije . |
29 | I began to wonder what was happening when we stood for a long time at Birmingham New Street . |
30 | The scene had called for him to stand on a cliff-top , surveying the land stretching out behind — land he and his marauding band had taken by force . |