Example sentences of "[vb past] [be] standing [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd spent most of the evening wrestling with the one fragment that he 'd managed to retain , picked out of the air behind him as he 'd been standing at the cooker watching his soup boil . |
| 2 | Meanwhile , the school 's RFFS ( rescue and fire-fighting service ) person who had been standing outside the school ran 150 metres to the RFFS vehicle parked by the control room . |
| 3 | Immediately , the cameramen who had been standing at the sides of the rows of chairs moved , and the flash of lights and the clicks of their equipment bewildered him slightly . |
| 4 | She guessed that he had been standing at the window or listening for the sound of her key in the lock . |
| 5 | For the past hour we had been standing at the top of a Norfolk heath in swirling snow . |
| 6 | As she had come round the corner of the house from putting her bicycle in the old stable block , Inspector Blakelock had been standing at the front door almost as if he were waiting for her . |
| 7 | He did not say that a week ago the boy had been standing under the monkey-puzzle in the middle of the night , looking up at the windows of the house . |
| 8 | Fenella had been standing towards the back of the Robe-room , half hidden by the racks of shimmering robes , but Caspar had been in the centre of the room , midway between two of the racks . |
| 9 | ‘ Toe-rag ! ’ he muttered , picking up the drink that had been standing on the glass above the labyrinth of numbers and wires . |
| 10 | She had been standing on the pavement , holding some silly banner — ‘ EDUCATION CUTS ARE NOT COMIC ’ , or something like that — talking and laughing excitedly with a big-bosomed woman stuffed into a scarlet ski-suit and pink moon boots , and he remembered thinking to himself : so it 's finally happened — designer industrial action . |
| 11 | The young man had been standing on the platform at Portslade station in East Sussex yesterday shortly before the London to Brighton train passed . |
| 12 | She had been standing on the bank above him with her booted feet apart , her hands jammed into the pockets of her tight-fitting breeches , and for a fleeting instant he looked at her appraisingly as he had done at the reception . |
| 13 | A herd of cows had been standing on the other side , and Blunt watched them stampede away , fanning out like clumsy messengers with news for all parts . |
| 14 | The two bungalows in question , though , had been standing from the year dot . |
| 15 | He had been standing in the kitchen for a long time . |
| 16 | By the time the rope went tight I had been standing in the same spot for nearly an hour and a half . |
| 17 | Knowing that it could only be bad news , Harry , who had been standing in the doorway , stepped forward and put his arm round Cora-Beth 's shoulders . |
| 18 | All the while she had been talking , she had been moving little by little to one side , her movements casual , and when she was exactly where she wanted to be she reached out and grasped , lifted , and swiftly jabbed the pitchfork that had been standing in the corner of the stall . |
| 19 | Laidlaw waited until the prostitute was out of sight then nodded to Graham who had been standing by the tree . |
| 20 | He had been standing by the door which was now partly open . |
| 21 | All this time they had been standing by the front door . |
| 22 | He answered immediately , as if he had been standing by the instrument . |
| 23 | Guy 's Hospital confirmed last night that the dead girl was Daniella Carter , who had been standing near the blast . |
| 24 | Joshua Morris , who had been standing near the door , slipped out into the foyer . |
| 25 | Peggy had been standing near the table . |