Example sentences of "[adv] stood a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Outside stood a young man in oilskins , the hood blowing back from a soaking tangle of brown hair blackened by the rain , and one hand gripping a duffel bag . |
| 2 | Apart from spending a lot of money on the church , they built this house , where once stood a meagre rectory , and called it ‘ Sutton on the Hill Hall ’ . |
| 3 | Easily Accessible : Mere is an attractive town dating back to Saxon times with pretty stone cottages and fine views of Blackmore Vale from Castle Hill , where once stood a medieval fortification . |
| 4 | On the site to the north of the churchyard there once stood a Gilbertine Priory . |
| 5 | They soon learned that an internally consistent paper with logical relationships to what had gone before stood a better chance of acceptance than something which was right but new : civil servants after all knew little about the industry and had little basis on which to judge proposals except consistency with what had gone before . |
| 6 | His public standing rose by 18 points in public opinion polls immediately after Guzmán 's capture , and analysts believed that government-sponsored candidates now stood a good chance of commanding a majority in the Democratic Constituent Congress ( CCD ) to be elected on Nov. 22 [ see p. 39048 ] . |
| 7 | This arose because although the site was nearly ideal for our purposes , right in the middle there stood a small cottage in which lived a retired shepherd , Amos Chatfield . |
| 8 | Beyond stood a rectangular building , the terminal , fabricated from the packing crates left over by the American military from its construction work on the runway . |