Example sentences of "they stood [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There they stood for a long time by a low stone wall , staring hopelessly out at the yellow fields of stubble , where the wheatsheaves were stooked and ready for gathering into the barn . |
| 2 | They stood for a long time in silence , and the others left them alone . |
| 3 | There the rise and swell of incomprehensible Latin seemed to have a grandeur that aroused the spirit of poetry in the Gaels , as if they stood on a rocky shore communing with the waves . |
| 4 | The other two men were hit by the two gunmen as they stood on a nearby footpath at the spot where black taxis operate up and down Belfast 's Falls Road . |
| 5 | They stood on the concrete steps reviewing the dismal scene as if it were a personal insult . |
| 6 | They stood on the landward edge of the riverside path , very close to the lipping water . |
| 7 | Five minutes later they stood on the grassy bank looking down at the brown water . |
| 8 | They stood on the warm asphalt . |
| 9 | They stood at the long sash windows of his office and looked out across the building-site . |
| 10 | Three Mutawas had been told of the indignation from the foreign community and they stood with the armed guards at the entry of the delivery theatre to ensure that no sympathetic foreigner assisted the girl to escape . |
| 11 | They stood outside the back door while Barbara Coleman sorted through her handbag . |
| 12 | A six inch deep channel of water still flowed over their wader clad feet as they stood in a rough circle looking down at something in the mud . |
| 13 | They stood in a small circle and looked up at him , Dr. Howarth , Clifford Bradley , Miss Foley , Mrs. Bidwell . |
| 14 | At least 13 protesters were killed , most of them run over by tanks as they stood in a human cordon trying to defend the building , and 230 were injured ; a soldier also died , shot by one of his own men . |
| 15 | The defending Englishmen were clustered in groups of three at intervals around thirty yards apart , strung out along the stockade itself and its command lookouts ; in the stream that passed through the settlement , and bounded the headland where Belmont 's Great House now commanded the rise , they stood in a double row to bar access to the settlement by that approach ; in the mangroves at the mouth of the stream two young sentries kept watch , though the prevailing easterly breeze rendered it unlikely , the English commanders decided , that the islanders ' attack would come from the sea on that shore . |
| 16 | They stood in a tight bunch and craned their necks to see what was causing the commotion . |
| 17 | The Latin papa , or Greek pappas , ‘ Daddy ’ , was used by early Christians of a bishop to whom they stood in a filial relation . |
| 18 | They stood in the single child 's bedroom and Molly joined in a short , silent tribute to the Ketterings ' marriage , whilst some large , blundering insect bumped against a window that had been long dosed . |
| 19 | As they stood by the covered courtyard Hennessy said , ‘ Remember , please , not a word to anybody . |
| 20 | There is also an element of nostalgia , too , amongst the original secondary modern teachers , in the sense that , ‘ the staff knew where they stood within a small school ’ , with ‘ a more traditional authority pattern ’ . |
| 21 | The crimson rope-lights still held him , so that he was forced to go on down the slope until they stood before the terrible dwelling place of the necromancer . |