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3 | Charles collapsed like a glove puppet with the hand withdrawn , and stood for a long moment , sagging .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 | I replaced the blanket over his head and stood for a few moments looking at the bodies in their neat little rows . |
9 | She put away the car , quietly locked the garage door and stood for a few moments looking out over the valley . |
10 | In 1940 Roosevelt broke with tradition and stood for a third term of office . |
11 | The threw back the bedclothes , shed her clinging nightgown and stood under a cool shower until she began to come alive . |
12 | Severed eyes are best potted individually in good clean garden soil and stood in a shallow bowl of water with their growing points submerged . |
13 | They came and stood in a little group , disciplined and obedient . |
14 | 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 , |
15 | 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 . |
16 | He walked into Lipton 's and stood behind a fat woman who immediately said , ‘ Ee are , Chris , serve this chap . |