Example sentences of "he stood in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He stood in a familiar , flamboyant posture with his hands on his hips and his chin stuck out , constantly turning his head from left to right and back again , to take in his entire audience . |
| 2 | ‘ So you are writing about those things , ’ another Israeli said as he stood in a narrow , shaded lane . |
| 3 | He stood in the shattered doorway , confronting his monster , a shadow among shadows . |
| 4 | No wonder Mosley was smiling as he stood in the cast council chamber . |
| 5 | He stood in the front row of the congregation immediately beneath one of the huge , heavily-ornamented lecterns , and during the readings his rapt , upturned face caught the light from the lectern 's candles . |
| 6 | As he stood in the drizzling rain he welcomed it : the contrast in temperature was huge compared with Helsinki . |
| 7 | So there he stood in the Dirty Duck , opposite Shakespeare 's Memorial Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon , 1951 , Prince of the heap . |
| 8 | It had seemed to him that her eyes looked right into his as he stood in the darkened hall , staring into the room . |
| 9 | He stood in the damp boots that leaked the snow wet to his socks , and he hated the man who sat at the desk . |
| 10 | Edouard went back down the stairs ; he stood in the huge marble-floored foyer , and closed his eyes . |
| 11 | 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 ? |
| 12 | Dowd shivered with unease as he stood in the plain hallway of the Tower , knowing that somewhere nearby was the largest collection of magical writings gathered in one place outside the Vatican , and that amongst them would be many rituals for the raising and dispatching of creatures like himself . |
| 13 | He stood in the crude stirrups of his saddle and smelled the air hard , seeming satisfied . |
| 14 | He stood in the crude stirrups of his saddle and smelled the air hard , seeming satisfied . |
| 15 | As he stood in the torrential rain , and peered this way and that , the Mason and Garvey stood with their arms round each other 's shoulders , in the doorway of the inn , watching him in puzzled amusement . |
| 16 | He was certainly no taller than me and he stood in an instinctive boxer 's crouch . |