Example sentences of "i stood [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I stood for a long time in a telephone box just to keep out of the slicing rain . |
| 2 | I stood for a long while looking at Voting Right . |
| 3 | I stood for a long time , staring at the mirror . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Mr and Mrs Smith , the benign proprietors , were always good to me , giving me a lolly or a ‘ black jack ’ every time I shopped there , and I was looking forward to the treat as I stood behind a small queue masking the counter . |
| 6 | I stood in a short sling and laybacked over the bulge on a jammed stone into a smooth scoop . |
| 7 | I stood in a white wilderness , and perceived that to gather wood for burning in such conditions was not easy . |