Example sentences of "[subord] he stood on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She put her arms round him where he stood on the threshold of her room . |
| 2 | If he stood on the shelf above the door , he could probably — possibly — prise the catch further open and maybe squeeze in . |
| 3 | ‘ She never ceases to amaze me , ’ he said , Perrier water with lime clutched to his chest as he stood on the balcony above the stage where Kylie was ridding herself forever of her cutesy image . |
| 4 | As he stood on the first tee at New Orleans last week , he noticed a boy in a wheelchair . |
| 5 | As he stood on the steps before the heavy front door and dug in his pocket for his keys he could hear the ringing of a telephone , blanked and muffled by several layers of brick and plaster . |
| 6 | As he stood on the stage he felt pouring out from the audience that most British of reflexes : the will for the underdog to win . |
| 7 | As he stood on the tee with the green five hundred yards away , Kyle must have been thinking of another birdie , possibly an eagle . |
| 8 | His heart thumped as he stood on the Yugoslav border and stared through the night at the nearby fields in Hungary . |
| 9 | ‘ So what you learn from such a bold step ? ’ asked Dan Salmon as he stood on the doorstep of his shop , skull cap on the back of his head , thumbs lodged in the black waistcoat pockets that proudly displayed his half-hunter watch . |