Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] stand [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once when giving a criticism at the College he found himself standing beside a cold radiator . |
| 2 | Willie found himself standing in a large field . |
| 3 | Then darkness enfolded her , and she found herself standing on a solid surface in a shadowed room , staring upwards at the underside of the dimple with a strange sense of having been reborn . |
| 4 | She found herself standing on a wide terrace , with steps that led away from the house . |
| 5 | Benny found herself standing in a smooth-floored entryway that opened on to the docks about ten feet further on . |
| 6 | On the other hand the Police Inspector of the district found him standing with a bunch of yellow flowers in his hand . |
| 7 | ‘ Well , I imagined him standing on a wee planet about the size of a football — ’ |
| 8 | His appearance warned of a death in the family , and , as this old poem suggests , the beast usually manifested itself standing in a graveyard , howling : |
| 9 | I saw them standing in a crowd ; they told me ‘ We want to prove something , show them something . ’ |
| 10 | Then , quickly she opened the door and went out and left them standing in a half circle , silent , no laughter on their faces now , just memories of what might have been if they had had a child like the little girl who used to run into them , and a daughter as she was now . |
| 11 | He simply took things out of her hands and left her standing like a fool , and Jenna fumed silently . |
| 12 | The younger Dr Gysi used a term from the 1920s when he said he stood for a ‘ third path between Stalinism and capitalism ’ . |
| 13 | MacLane had us stand against a wall , facing the bricks . |