Example sentences of "and stood [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1880 he had had a political fling and stood as a Liberal candidate for the City of London in favour of disestablishment , temperance legislation , social and political reform . |
| 2 | He was Hampshire 's coach in 1939 and stood as a first-class umpire in 1949 , the year before his death . |
| 3 | Charles collapsed like a glove puppet with the hand withdrawn , and stood for a long moment , sagging . |
| 4 | When Martha had gone as well , Tim picked up the whisky he had poured earlier and stood for a long time in the hallway . |
| 5 | She had risen from her deep curtsey , and stood for a long moment gazing steadily into his face . |
| 6 | She went up to her room , put the Diary in her drawer and stood for a long time , breathing on the window and drawing faces . |
| 7 | She walked one last time down the rickety boardwalk in front of the cabins , and stood for a long time looking down at the sleeping lodge , the moody lake beyond it . |
| 8 | The threw back the bedclothes , shed her clinging nightgown and stood under a cool shower until she began to come alive . |
| 9 | Severed eyes are best potted individually in good clean garden soil and stood in a shallow bowl of water with their growing points submerged . |
| 10 | They came and stood in a little group , disciplined and obedient . |
| 11 | The piglets slowed their headlong gallop to a trot , then , as though controlled by telepathy , they all stopped at once and stood in a pink group in one corner , |
| 12 | He dropped his hands to his sides and stood like a little dog , found out , and admitting : ‘ Yes , I know I have a silly sort of fancy for Lal . |
| 13 | He walked into Lipton 's and stood behind a fat woman who immediately said , ‘ Ee are , Chris , serve this chap . |