Example sentences of "[subord] [noun] stood [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He stopped where Tallis stood on the wall . |
| 2 | But if Nietzsche stood with the earlier philhellenes in this way , he was explicitly against them in another . |
| 3 | He held out his hand and the Mason crushed it inside his own until tears stood in the boy 's eyes . |
| 4 | And when the train started she wished she could close her cars too , because Nick stood at the window and sang . |
| 5 | While Jimmy stood at the reception desk counter , both arms spread out on it backwards in the same pose that he had adopted at the bar counter earlier that evening , Duvall simply stood two feet by his side , watching him . |
| 6 | She walked through into the Lancaster Room again , where Phil Aldrich was still scribbling away on the hotel 's notepaper ; and for the moment ( as Sheila stood in the doorway ) looking up with his wonted patience and nodding mildly as Janet propounded her latest views on the injustice of the tour 's latest delay . |
| 7 | Later , after work , I got a pretty good look at these new pants of ours , as Tod stood before the full-length mirror unknotting the plump Windsor of his tie . |
| 8 | As Sabrina stood outside the hotel on the Place de la Gare staring up at the Cathedral 's spire silhouetted against the dark , sombre skyline , she let her thoughts drift back over the hours since their departure from New York 's John F. Kennedy Airport . |
| 9 | It was just after nine the following night , rain pounding in from the Atlantic , when Asa stood in the control tower at Laville and watched the Dornier take off . |
| 10 | It looked positively eccentric as Jefferson stood alongside the hole . |
| 11 | If the finger had not been pointed , all the class would have known who was being called to face the fearsome sister , and when Millie stood by the side of the nun 's desk , the sheet of paper was immediately thrust into her face with the demand , ‘ What do you mean by that ? |
| 12 | ‘ There is another way back , ’ he said quietly as Maggie stood by the Land Rover and cast a rather fearful eye up the valley . |
| 13 | Buchanan stood up , putting on his coat as Warden stood at the same time . |
| 14 | I will go so far as to concede that taken in isolation , ripped away from the defining context of humour and irony and friendship , studied in their literal or surface sense only , then , yes , the words I spoke in that room as Robert stood at the window pretending to take me seriously could be understood to mean that during the past six or seven years I had gone to bed with more than one hundred and fifty prostitutes . |
| 15 | On the morning of November 18th , when Wilson stood in the street to wave goodbye to the Brownings , it was hot enough for her to want to move into the shade as soon as they had gone . |
| 16 | As Harry stood on the platform a minute or so later , watching the train pull out , he could see him through the brightly lit window , still immersed in his paperback , oblivious , it seemed , to Harry 's departure . |
| 17 | He watched as Anne stood outside the house , telling Chrissie of what had happened , and he did n't like the clear signs of distress that he could see on Chrissie Stone 's pale features . |
| 18 | But as police stood outside the pair sped off in the car . |