Example sentences of "i stood on [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could hear the sound of rent cloth in my head , but I stood on a wooden chair while Lili pinned the seams closer , standing quietly like a broken horse to be saddled and bridled . |
| 2 | I stood on the round wall and wound the handle as fast as I could , but when the bucket was still just out of reach , the rope kept slipping so I could not reach the bucket . |
| 3 | When my holiday had the goodness to be over , I stood on the usual rush-hour bus and read a schoolboy 's comic strips over his shoulder . |
| 4 | I stood on the final tee with Ken Schofield and imagined the kind of pressure build-up the players were feeling . |
| 5 | As I stood on the tufted grass , surrounded by natural beauty , I felt as if I 'd come to another world |
| 6 | It was once full of treasures , but all I could think about as I stood on the battlemented roof , looking out over the Aegean , was that a disciple of Christ 's had sat in his cell in a little monastery half-way up the hill recording the extraordinary revelations he had been vouchsafed . |