Example sentences of "[subord] they stood [prep] a " in BNC.

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1 Sarah 's mother and grandmother had followed her so they stood in a group on the step with several neighbours adding their congratulations .
2 There the rise and swell of incomprehensible Latin seemed to have a grandeur that aroused the spirit of poetry in the Gaels , as if they stood on a rocky shore communing with the waves .
3 The other two men were hit by the two gunmen as they stood on a nearby footpath at the spot where black taxis operate up and down Belfast 's Falls Road .
4 A six inch deep channel of water still flowed over their wader clad feet as they stood in a rough circle looking down at something in the mud .
5 At least 13 protesters were killed , most of them run over by tanks as they stood in a human cordon trying to defend the building , and 230 were injured ; a soldier also died , shot by one of his own men .
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