Example sentences of "they [was/were] standing [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were standing on the main staircase , two flights up from the party room . |
| 2 | Sharks stayed outside the reef , while Trent knew Arab net fishermen in the Persian Gulf whose calf muscles had been ripped out by barracudas while they were standing on the coral with the water below their knees . |
| 3 | They were standing on the lower section , with a fire door leading onto a split-level landing . |
| 4 | They were standing on the lower landing watching . |
| 5 | They were standing on the waste ground behind the car park which Hoomey had crossed on his way to Bean 's . |
| 6 | They were standing on the jetty with a score of chattering women , waiting for the launch that would take them to the depot ship Omega . |
| 7 | They were standing on the lawn in front of the lovely red-brick house with its weathered old red tiles and its tall chimneys , and Miss Honey still had the pair of garden clippers in one hand . |
| 8 | They were standing on the front steps of Crystal Springs House . |
| 9 | They were standing on the paved area behind the house : all the windows were dark , the garden chairs and the round table abandoned and vulnerable . |
| 10 | They were standing on the side of the road , with the forest behind them and the Robemaker 's Workshops directly ahead . |
| 11 | They were standing on the terrace just before lunch , watching the shrinking white mantle that had covered the slopes for the last two days , when a dark shape moving fast appeared further up the valley . |
| 12 | The trip was mercifully brief , little more than an hour , and soon they were standing on the tarmac at Ciampino Airport . |
| 13 | They were standing on the footpath beside their cars . |
| 14 | They were standing on the footpath beside their cars . |
| 15 | Ten minutes later , they were standing at the window of the cutler 's shop . |
| 16 | They were standing at the bar with their first glasses of wine in front of them . |
| 17 | They were standing at the desk by now and the girl was working on the bill . |
| 18 | But now they were standing at the head of a deep valley in the moor with their ears and tails down . |
| 19 | They were standing against the light , and their profiles overlapped at close quarters , and haloed them ; they made a vivid show of cock-of-the-roost virility , and she chuckled to herself with pleasure . |
| 20 | They were standing in the kitchen . |
| 21 | They were standing in the kitchen , she near the stove , he near the door . |
| 22 | I went for a midnight walk last February — it was snowing , I just got the urge , it was like a fairy tale , clean and soft — and they were standing in the hall when I got back , eyes frantic , fingers pointing , accusing me of — what ? |
| 23 | They were standing in the middle of a lecture room surrounded by breathalysers , reaction timers , and tachistoscopes , and being offered nothing more tantalising than a double vodka dispensed into glasses via a chemical measuring jar , and served with a shot of orange juice from a carton . |
| 24 | They were standing in the stern of the vessel looking up at the back of the cabins . |
| 25 | They were standing in the kitchen loading the dishwasher and putting the salads in the fridge when a picture caught her eye . |
| 26 | THEY were standing in the aisles when the Lord Chief Justice designate officially opened the Teesside Combined Court Centre yesterday . |
| 27 | I mean when they 're full I 've noticed when , we they were standing in the gangway . |
| 28 | And they were standing in the front as I 'm going |
| 29 | Oh only a couple of weeks , no they were standing in the common room and she knew he was a virgin right and they were still going out and she knew he was a virgin when they first started going out and Rox goes oh so are you a virgin then erm erm James and he goes no and she was still going out with him and she knew that it was n't with her , obviously , and , and Roxy goes oh who was it then and he goes oh just two , two birds I met in erm Portugal and |
| 30 | ‘ When I arived he had led his two sisters out and they were standing by the front door . |