Example sentences of "she stand [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She stands for a long moment . |
| 2 | If you are to be awkward then my mother will not know where she stands for a good deal of time . ’ |
| 3 | I had an old air-raid shelter , partly dug into the ground because of the slope : there was a load of stones on top , waiting to turn the shelter into an apple store disguised as a rockery , and when Mrs Wilson saw this she stood for a long time looking at the hump in the ground and the pile of stones . |
| 4 | There she stood for a long time , gazing out to sea , her heart full of sadness and her eyes full of tears . |
| 5 | When he had gone , she stood for a long time in front of the looking-glass that hung over the fire , her hands pressed to her cheeks , her face quite alive with excitement . |
| 6 | She stood for a long time , trying to make sense of her feelings , the words he had said tumbling around in her brain . |
| 7 | She was defeated when she stood as a National Labour candidate in 1931 . |
| 8 | After that she stood in a hazy dream , listening to the words that made them husband and wife . |
| 9 | She stood in a dark stifling cell , the woman mumbling by her side . |
| 10 | A dream in which she stood in a glorious , sweet-scented , flower-filled garden watching a tall , golden-haired man playing with beautiful blonde , blue-eyed children , all miniature replicas of himself . |
| 11 | It was as if she stood in a noisy limbo ; all the yesterdays had gone as if they had never been and all the tomorrows were no more than a tantalising promise . |
| 12 | She stood in a large yard with a glass of white wine in her hand and it spilt down the front of her red dress when she jumped at the banging noise of a firework . |