Example sentences of "[been] standing [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A herd of cows had been standing on the other side , and Blunt watched them stampede away , fanning out like clumsy messengers with news for all parts . |
| 2 | Had not Sophia been standing on the front steps of the vicarage calling Faustina in , he would have taken Penelope in his arms and kissed her . |
| 3 | As she had come round the corner of the house from putting her bicycle in the old stable block , Inspector Blakelock had been standing at the front door almost as if he were waiting for her . |
| 4 | Cheryl has been standing inside the front room , looking out of the window , waiting for me . |
| 5 | By the time the rope went tight I had been standing in the same spot for nearly an hour and a half . |
| 6 | There is magnetism in romantic gestures that make you forget you 've been standing in the same place for half the day , that there is not a child in the house washed and you never got flowers from your 's truly . |
| 7 | All this time they had been standing by the front door . |