Example sentences of "[det] [noun] stood [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | With a feeling of doom I hurried after the squat figure back into the yard where another lad stood by the side of a beautiful chestnut filly . |
| 2 | Some stations stood in the heart of thriving capital cities and teemed with life day and night ; others in desolate fastnesses , where as Dickens remarked of the remote New England depots , ‘ the wild impossibility of anybody having the smallest reason to get out is only equalled by the apparently desperate hopelessness of there being anybody to get in ’ . |
| 3 | There were , a few people stood around the main entrance but I |
| 4 | This was essentially a male occupation , and vessels of this form stood on the graves of men , while the monumentalised store-jar ( amphora , fig. 1 ) adorned those of women . |
| 5 | Another candle stood for the trivium , the place where three roads meet . |
| 6 | A sombre stone chamber , its walls were adorned with green velvet drapes while a polished table with benches on either side stood in the middle of the rush-strewn floor . |
| 7 | The adventurer looked about him , and saw a wide beautiful lawn on which many people stood around the Emperor . |
| 8 | Two guards with guns stood behind him and two more guards stood near the door . |
| 9 | It is as though the bream were connected to sticks with several people stood on the bottom pushing one fish up as they pull another one down . |