Example sentences of "woman stand [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Into this chamber he went , to discover a woman standing beside a great canopied bed , who screamed at the sight of him , armoured and sword drawn . |
| 2 | Not until the child had come round , white-faced but spluttering and coughing , did Bert become aware of a man and a woman standing beside him : dishevelled , panic-stricken and shamefaced . |
| 3 | There was a woman standing beside Mahmoud . |
| 4 | He was dressed formally , in a dark dinner suit that emphasise the width of his shoulders and the whipcord hardness of his lean body , his dark Roman head inclined slightly towards the woman standing beside him . |
| 5 | When the woman standing over him returned to her place , Joseph rose to his feet and made his way unsteadily towards the back of the hut , calling Paul by name . |
| 6 | There was a woman standing at one of the second-storey windows when Gentle reached the intersection , just gazing out at the street . |
| 7 | I saw one woman standing at the door of her ruined home , crying and bewildered , with dried blood on her forehead . |
| 8 | ’ The Bridge ’ is the imaginary story behind a Victorian impressionist painting by Philip Steer of a man and a woman standing on a bridge . |
| 9 | An hour later a woman standing outside Central Milton Keynes railway station was kicked in the back by a youth on a racing bike . |
| 10 | Danny laughed , and put his arm around the beautiful young woman standing by his side . |
| 11 | She saw the woman standing by the reception desk , elegant and cool , her suitcase beside her . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'm not sitting here like some little woman standing by my man , like Tammy Wynette , ’ said Hillary . |
| 13 | He 'd tried to hurry Eloise away , to sidetrack the woman standing in their path . |
| 14 | The words were rushing out and Emily realized with surprise that she was actually nervous of this composed young woman standing before her . |
| 15 | She reached for a cotton wool bud , grimacing into the mirror at the reflection of the young woman standing behind her . |
| 16 | Never before has a woman stood by her man to such effect . |
| 17 | A black woman stood below the preacher . |
| 18 | A woman stood at the door of the French window , half in the verandah . |
| 19 | A woman stood at the shallow end , her hand under the chin of a small child , encouraging it along . |
| 20 | A woman stood at the tavern door , shouting at the crowd . |
| 21 | The woman stood on the grey carpet . |
| 22 | Another woman stood on one leg by the window and stared at her . |
| 23 | The woman stood in the hallway for a moment like a blind person unsure of her direction . |
| 24 | In one case this had happened twice on the same land and was about to happen a third time for bulldozer had arrived to destroy a newly erected building where a woman stood in the way , she was one of the nuns helping in the area ; the defence was successful . |
| 25 | The woman stood in front of the prison . |
| 26 | It is now believed that a young man and woman stood in the exact spot where the car bomb was parked — just minutes before it was detonated . |
| 27 | A man and an old woman stood near the body . |
| 28 | He followed her and Urquhart to where a coolly poised young woman stood by herself , holding but not drinking her madeira . |
| 29 | A thin , solemn-faced woman stood by the stove . |
| 30 | The tall hard-faced woman stood by the fire , watching the small flames flicker on the dying coals , and then , with a deliberate effort of will , she dismissed the thoughts and memories . |