Example sentences of "i stood [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 I stood as the Green Party candidate in May 1988 and 1989 .
2 I stood over the other side of the road from it and watched .
3 But our to avoid that situation I left and went to work with which kept me in the Edinburgh branch and within three or four weeks I stood for the local organizer and had not been successful .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 ‘ When I stood on the first tee in the morning I could hardly see the fairway , ’ said the Atherstone club-mate and friend of Paul Broadhurst , the Ryder Cup player .
7 I stood on the final tee with Ken Schofield and imagined the kind of pressure build-up the players were feeling .
8 As I stood on the tufted grass , surrounded by natural beauty , I felt as if I 'd come to another world
9 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 .
10 Just over five and a half years later , I stood on the same spot and watched the Israelis drive down the same road to be greeted in precisely the same way by the same Christians on the same balconies .
11 I stood at the front door of No. 5 , watching Dana straddle his bike , adjust his backpack and wave cheerily to me as he roared off down the road .
12 I stood at the front door for a long time being soaked by the rain .
13 I stood at the front door and it was around my ankles , within five minutes it was around my knees , ’ said Joanne .
14 When Paul 's score at the 17th came on they were close to erupting , so while Nick signed his card I stood beside the 18th green .
15 Oh , I stood outside the primary school this morning and spoke to the other mothers , and none of them want anything to do with it .
16 For a while I stood by the shattered doorway , wondering what to do .
17 I stood by the open window and the dogs licked my hands as I listened .
18 I stood in the slanting sunlight , warm and yellow around me , the stench of burning flesh and grass on the wind , the smoke rising into the air from burrows and cadavers , grey and black , the sweet smell of leaking unburned petrol coming from the Flame-thrower where I 'd left it , and I breathed deeply .
19 I pulled up in a gateway , Sam jumped out and we went through into a field ; and as the beagle scampered over the glittering turf I stood in the warm sunshine amid the melting frost and looked back at the dark damp blanket which blotted out the low country but left this jewelled world above it .
20 I stood in the little clearing round the ruined walls .
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