Example sentences of "they stood [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They stood on the concrete steps reviewing the dismal scene as if it were a personal insult . |
| 2 | They stood on the landward edge of the riverside path , very close to the lipping water . |
| 3 | Five minutes later they stood on the grassy bank looking down at the brown water . |
| 4 | They stood on the warm asphalt . |
| 5 | They stood at the long sash windows of his office and looked out across the building-site . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | They stood outside the back door while Barbara Coleman sorted through her handbag . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | As they stood by the covered courtyard Hennessy said , ‘ Remember , please , not a word to anybody . |
| 10 | 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 . |