Example sentences of "they stood on [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | They stood on the concrete steps reviewing the dismal scene as if it were a personal insult . |
| 4 | They stood on the landward edge of the riverside path , very close to the lipping water . |
| 5 | Five minutes later they stood on the grassy bank looking down at the brown water . |
| 6 | They stood on the warm asphalt . |