Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] stood [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We wandered over Clare Bridge , which always looks as if it is about to collapse , and then up to St John 's , where we stood on the old Wren bridge and talked for some time , gazing at the so-called Bridge of Sighs which connects the old and new parts of St John 's . |
| 2 | Conservative Coun Peter Jones said the Dryden affair could have been avoided if both sides had known where they stood from the outset . |
| 3 | Earlier , at a London news conference , Mr Ashdown challenged Mr Kinnock and Mr Major to make clear where they stood in the event of a hung parliament . |
| 4 | Bourgeois society took for granted the sanctity of property , the supremacy of the market as a social regulator , the propriety of individual self-improvement and self-advancement , the abandonment of the traditional and irrational where they stood in the way of utility , and a belief in progress . |
| 5 | She put her arms round him where he stood on the threshold of her room . |
| 6 | No doubt Temple remembered that once they stood on the same platform at Cambridge . |
| 7 | In his theology , however , Hooker was not simply a traditionalist ; although he stood within the mainstream of the Calvinist consensus on the issue of predestination , he challenged many of the assumptions held by both credal and experimental Calvinists . |
| 8 | She called again , moving out through the gate until she stood at the top of the lower garden that sloped down to the bay . |
| 9 | Up there on the top step , looking down on Lucenzo 's bright fair head , she felt as if she stood on the brink of a great change in her life . |
| 10 | Well do n't you see it going past , if you stood in the middle and watched it , there it goes ? |
| 11 | We were n't hurting anyone or upsetting anyone , it was n't as if we stood in the corridor kissing and cuddling . |
| 12 | The crimson rope-lights still held him , so that he was forced to go on down the slope until they stood before the terrible dwelling place of the necromancer . |
| 13 | As he rushed onwards it lengthened and curved , until he stood at the edge of a cold volcanic cauldron , looking down at the mountain 's secret , a still , dark lake which gleamed green at the foot of the crags . |
| 14 | Taking advantage of the cover provided by the soft throbbing music , he glided along the line of the wall until he stood outside the door of the private bedroom . |
| 15 | He brushed aside new-bursting buds that slapped at his face , until he stood by the rust-eaten iron gates , watching the hearse accelerate down the road . |
| 16 | The principal author of the market reform programme , Abalkin was booed and slow hand-clapped during an impassioned speech in which he declared that the party hitherto had failed socialist ideals in every respect , and would be swept aside if it stood in the way of a market economy . |
| 17 | If he stood on the shelf above the door , he could probably — possibly — prise the catch further open and maybe squeeze in . |
| 18 | On Monday I put this bowl into the washing up bowl , cos it stood in the car and take this , like that , to school . |
| 19 | It was no sweat because everyone stood on the chairs and danced anyway . |
| 20 | with the ineffable modesty that , because he stood in the direct line of the Apostolic Succession , he had a better right to preach the Gospel and to administer the Sacraments , and was more a minister of Christ than Dr Dale or Mr Spurgeon or Henry Ward Beecher … what could they do but laugh ? |
| 21 | Happiness , I knew , was not something she thought much of as an end : it was as if she had said , I 'm glad you do n't mind being poor , and , although when I replied to her , it was only to tell her about the baby , Thomas , and how he had put on five pounds and had cut his first tooth , I brooded over what I might have said while I stood at the sink or pushed the pram , making great , windy speeches in my mind , venting on my absent aunt the curious , unreasonable anger that seemed to rise up before me like a dark pit , bottomless and frightening . |
| 22 | It was after eight-thirty and in a few minutes the family would sit down to eat while she stood at the end of the table , still working . |
| 23 | It seemed a shame that while he stood in the Chuckwagon queue he called his girlfriend ‘ Tray ’ . |
| 24 | The Tunisian government confirmed on Sept. 11 that , while it stood by the unanimous March 1990 Arab League decision to transfer the headquarters to Cairo [ see p. 37334 ] , the move to speed up the transfer " could hamper this body and prevent it from shouldering its responsibility " . |
| 25 | A day , days , must have passed since he stood beside the lake . |
| 26 | But now I had come face to face with her four days after she stood before the House of Commons and declared that there were too many hospital beds in London , and that as a result , St Bartholomew 's Hospital , along with numerous others great and small , would have to close , merge or become emasculated . |
| 27 | ‘ When I stood on the first tee in the morning I could hardly see the fairway , ’ said the Atherstone club-mate and friend of Paul Broadhurst , the Ryder Cup player . |
| 28 | When I stood at the doorway , hesitating to dash into the pouring rain , I could see that the landscape had moved with the date . |
| 29 | Yeah , I remembered it while I was walking round the shop , cos the more I yeah , the more I thought about it the worse I got when I stood by the machine . |
| 30 | Employing a lounge-lizard gait , he swaggered towards me as I stood at the bar waiting for my Coke . |