Example sentences of "[pers pn] stand at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I stand at the window ( which I am not going to do ) I can see a small fat man with a trilby hat , a British warm and what looks like a binocular case , standing down below on the other side of the road and peering up with an anxious concentration at this battered , paint-peeling semi-circle of so-called Mansion Flats . |
| 2 | I stand at the window . |
| 3 | And , saddened , I stand at the door , and wait in the cold |
| 4 | Behold , I stand at the door and knock : if any man hear my voice , and open the door , I will come in to him Revelation 3 : 20 |
| 5 | All Church assemblies should perhaps have the motto , ‘ Behold I stand at the door and knock ’ inscribed above the door to remind them that the Church exists for outsiders not insiders . |
| 6 | ‘ One can not say to the Zanaki people along the shores of the sprawling Lake Victoria , ‘ Behold I stand at the door and knock ’ ( Rev. 3:20 ) . |
| 7 | Accordingly , in the Zanaki translation it is necessary to say , ‘ Behold , I stand at the door and call ’ ’ ( Nida 1952:46 ) . |
| 8 | I stand at the bottom and watch him . |
| 9 | I stood at the foot of the bed and watched my grandfather go to sleep . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Employing a lounge-lizard gait , he swaggered towards me as I stood at the bar waiting for my Coke . |
| 12 | I stood at the bar with the Morning Line , WITCH WHO LIED FOR DR SEX . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | I stood at the top of the slope . |
| 15 | I stood at the door and looked up , but the windows were dark ; she had gone to bed . |
| 16 | I stood at the window and looked down into the street . |
| 17 | In the city , I stood at the window and identified the cars as they breezed by . |
| 18 | I stood at the edge of a circle of standing stones , each eight to ten foot high , with a massive central stone which leaned at a perilous angle . |
| 19 | Happiness , I knew , was not something she thought much of as an end : it was as if she had said , I 'm glad you do n't mind being poor , and , although when I replied to her , it was only to tell her about the baby , Thomas , and how he had put on five pounds and had cut his first tooth , I brooded over what I might have said while I stood at the sink or pushed the pram , making great , windy speeches in my mind , venting on my absent aunt the curious , unreasonable anger that seemed to rise up before me like a dark pit , bottomless and frightening . |
| 20 | I stood at the doorway , waiting . |
| 21 | When I stood at the doorway , hesitating to dash into the pouring rain , I could see that the landscape had moved with the date . |
| 22 | As a small boy , growing up in Liverpool , I stood at the Pier Head and marvelled at the huge Atlantic liners berthed at the world 's largest floating landing-stage . |
| 23 | Images of animals huddled together for warmth , safety and companionship floated into my mind as I stood at the side of this man , watching him examine firearms . |
| 24 | The cughtagh 's presence is marked by a far-off tumble of pebbles and gravel as you stand at the opening to his cave . |
| 25 | You stand at the iron door |
| 26 | She stood at the door and stared . |
| 27 | She stood at the door , the Doctor 's name poised on her lips , but just before she called out , something made her hesitate . |
| 28 | For a moment she stood at the door , watching it , wondering whether to answer it or not . |
| 29 | She stood at the altar-steps , uncertain what to do as she watched her daughter try to put her arms round her priestly uncle , prattling all the while in infant Italian . |
| 30 | She stood at the head of the small table , waiting for her son and daughter to seat themselves on either side of her and then sat down . |