Example sentences of "[vb past] to stand [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he moved to stand in front of her , barring her path , she looked down , terrified that he would read her fear on her face . |
| 2 | When he had shut the door of her bedroom behind them both , he came to stand in front of her and stroked her face with one finger , tracing her eyebrows , the semi-circular curve of the bones under her eyes , the diagonal lines of her cheekbones , and her lips . |
| 3 | Lucenzo finished his unnervingly fast count-down and came to stand in front of her , commandeering the laces again despite her protests . |
| 4 | 3T3 cells were grown as monolayers in flasks , collected by trypsinization and allowed to stand at 4°C for 2h before incorporation into reaggregates . |
| 5 | Holland declined to stand for Norfolk in 1679 , although he voted for the exclusionists , and stood unsuccessfully in 1685 as a trimmer . |
| 6 | Getting slowly to her feet , she went to stand in front of him , the bedcover still held awkwardly round her . |
| 7 | The boy continued to stand in front of Alice , where he had been placed . |
| 8 | I had to stand in front of the whole school which gave me ample opportunity to observe the envy on some girls ' faces because knitting for the troops was a popular pastime then . |
| 9 | We started off by using the T-bars which were very awkward because you had to stand in front of a small bar , you could n't sit down or lean forward . |
| 10 | If Nisodemus wanted to stand in front of a car then that was all right by them . |
| 11 | On Feb. 28 she joined the Supreme Council 's economic commission , although there were suggestions that she intended to stand in opposition to the administration of President Vytautas Landsbergis . |