Example sentences of "we stand [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We stand for a few moments in each other 's arms , and I ask what we should do this evening . |
| 2 | All too soon ( why are n't there 400m more of this ? ) we stand below the final pitch , which falls to Enrique . |
| 3 | Er , obviously on a more serious note , er it was very disappointing that we had such a severe er downturn in profitability last year after several years of steadily rising profits , and so what I want to do this morning was tell you a little bit about what happened in the last part of the year , since we met at the time of the interim results presentation last September , tell you the actions that have been taken and give you a little bit of insight as to where we stand at the present time . |
| 4 | A new generation is upon us of mindless bully boys , vandals , muggers , head-bangers , football rowdies , granny-murderers , boot boys , toughs and tearaways who laugh in the face of the law , as we stand before the rising tide of violence and disorder with a Canute-like impotence . |
| 5 | Just as Adam stands between the forces of good and evil , so do we stand between the heroic action and qualities of Christ and the fallen Angel of Light , and just as man did in the beginning , we too , as humans , fall prey to the tempter at each individual reading of the epic . |
| 6 | We stood on the concrete set of the main concourse while extras thronged about . |
| 7 | We stood on the grassy ( wretchedly moonlit ) path and listened hard . |
| 8 | We wandered over Clare Bridge , which always looks as if it is about to collapse , and then up to St John 's , where we stood on the old Wren bridge and talked for some time , gazing at the so-called Bridge of Sighs which connects the old and new parts of St John 's . |
| 9 | There we stood on the perilous slope . |
| 10 | We stood on the high shingle bank , striving to keep our balance . |
| 11 | The crowd had now swelled to huge numbers as we stood on the 16th tee . |
| 12 | We stood on the top step , an icy wind driving any sleep from our eyes and faces , staring out over the snow-carpeted grounds . |
| 13 | After an hour on the flat we stood on an old snow patch at the foot of the Plaret cascades and looked straight up a perfect glacier valley to the hut , and beyond the Promontoire hut , glinting in the afternoon light , high on a southerly arm of La Meije . |
| 14 | " We stood off the Belgian coast near Nieuport that evening and received information that Spring Flight had embarked a party of Pakistanis and was leaving harbour . |
| 15 | I asked as we stood outside the front door of Green 's Hotel . |
| 16 | I began to wonder what was happening when we stood for a long time at Birmingham New Street . |
| 17 | We stood at the railed-off observation platform at Bartlet Nab and looked down on to a spectacular scene . |
| 18 | We stood in the hot sandy bucket of the street , watching First Avenue 's wall of death . |
| 19 | ‘ Come in a moment , ’ she said , and we stood in the darkened hall . |
| 20 | I outlined what my message had been over the past two weeks and would be at the Party Conference — that we stood by the National Health Service and had no intention of moving over to a new system of finance . |