Example sentences of "stand [verb] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He stands gazing at the middle barrel . |
| 2 | She seemed to stand staring at the two of them , and they at her , for a long time , while outside , where night was making of the road a strange country , the vegetation grew black and monstrous . |
| 3 | The old slate quarry here is one of the largest man-made holes in Britain , and such is the fascination that holes in the ground exercise on the mind of man that there are special viewing platforms where visitors may stand to gape at the awesome chasm . |
| 4 | Mortimer left in a hurry , caught his plane , and was standing bewigged at the Old Bailey the next day . |
| 5 | How you gon na deal with people who are , we get this side of the group to be aggressive people passive side , we 'll give the right hand side of the group as I 'm standing look at the passive people . |
| 6 | One young girl who had stood giggling at the hapless Mark for more than ten minutes was told that she could go back to her department as she 'd waited long enough . |
| 7 | Gripping her spear in white hands , she stood gazing at the shadowy Isle . |
| 8 | Molly stood looking at the lapping water with Ken Corduroy , expert on garden pools and pergolas , who had arrived quite unexpectedly in his Volvo estate . |
| 9 | She stood staring at the yellow-flowered table cloth , as phrases formed and reformed inside her head , but she said nothing . |
| 10 | Zen stood staring at the younger man in considerable embarrassment . |
| 11 | ‘ What 's wrong ? ’ asked his mother as the boy stood staring at the moving hand rail . |