Example sentences of "the [noun] stood [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A quiet street and the beard stood in the shade of an apartment block doorway . |
| 2 | Part of the reason why the shareholders had to wait so long for a return was that the original capital had been only 10,000 guineas , and the Company financed itself by fairly short-term loans from the merchants with which it did business , so the shareholders stood at the end of a long line of creditors but could expect substantial returns on their money in the end if the Company survived . |
| 3 | In their studios the canvases stood on the floors , on the chairs and other pieces of furniture , or hung high on the walls . |
| 4 | The statue stood at the centre of the Hall of Celestial Destinies in Nantes spaceport , the huge , bronze figures raised high above the executive-class travellers who bustled like ants about its base . |
| 5 | ‘ As the rules stood at the time , the League had no choice but to order the game to be replayed over a full 90 minutes . |
| 6 | ‘ Come along , Emily , dear , ’ Aunt Sophie was at her side , catching her arm , leading her back into the centre of the room where the vicar stood over the coffin , ready to pay his last respects to Thomas Grenfell . |
| 7 | Unusually the driver stood in the centre of the platform , framed by the staircases , and peering round the windscreen , which was later removed . |
| 8 | The cabin stood in the centre . |
| 9 | The stranger stood in the Fournier 's drawing-room in a simple white dress and some jewellery . |
| 10 | The ambulance stood in the road . |
| 11 | For his part , the President stood with the rest of the politburo on the mausoleum of the man who made it all happen — Lenin — and took the salute at the military and civilian parade through Red Square . |
| 12 | The figure stood over the prostrate Doctor . |
| 13 | ‘ A lot of the kids stood on the fringe and would have like to join in , but their friends would have called them puffs . |
| 14 | They discovered the manor stood on the site of a medieval castle ‘ the lost palace ’ of Llywelyn Fawr ( Llewelyn the Great ) and his son , Llywelyn , the last Welsh prince . |
| 15 | The Feldwebel stood at the entrance to the corridor turning away people who wanted to come in . |
| 16 | ‘ The hijacker stood in the aisle and explained in Russian how his hand grenades worked , ’ Vyacheslav Babin from Tyumen told the Swedish daily Dagens Nyheter in Tallinn . |
| 17 | The Indian stood in the doorway , a duffle bag looped over one shoulder , and looked at the two phones on the desk . |
| 18 | Some hearths were simply butted up against the surround , whilst in other designs , the surround stood on the hearth . |
| 19 | While the rest of the group stood around the microphone Eva was invited to move over to the corner . |
| 20 | The Robemaker stood over the remains of the boy and lifted his arms wide , so that the cloak fluttered and his arms resembled great black wings . |
| 21 | But it was Eadmer , with his keen eye for significant detail , who noted two points omitted by Osbern : he observed that , as the monks stood round the sufferer , each of the two groups spoke a language which the other could not understand ; and also he remarked that things went more smoothly after this event . |
| 22 | The rest stood round the outskirts of the lawn , poised to catch . |
| 23 | Conversely slave-owners and self-lords on the whole stood by the system because it seemed to them the very foundation of their society and their class . |
| 24 | The lecturer stood between the table and the wall — the worst possible position . |
| 25 | My memories of cardiac teaching rounds are of a dozen students queueing to listen to a murmur while the registrar stood at the end of the bed swinging a stethoscope and staring out of the window . |
| 26 | He turned to look back at where the doorway to the stairs stood in the gloom . |
| 27 | The barrel stood beside the cauldron — a good measure of its fiery contents had already disappeared into the seething pot together with some peppermint herbs , firebalm , and certain other ingredients gathered by Gambo early that morning ( a good cook has his secrets , and Gambo had more than most ) . |
| 28 | The woman stood on the grey carpet . |
| 29 | The woman stood in the hallway for a moment like a blind person unsure of her direction . |
| 30 | As the train stood on the platform we did not know if we would ever board it . |