Example sentences of "stand [adj] in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They then have to stand still in the water with their arms out and their legs apart until one of the others playing frees them . |
| 2 | The Scot was dumped 5-2 by 26-year-old Dave Harold from Stoke , who stands 93rd in the world rankings . |
| 3 | Today , Leeds bridge still stands firm in the heart of the city , to welcome the modern armies of visitors into Leeds . |
| 4 | The mark stands firm in the Exchange Rate Mechanism . |
| 5 | I did not see her again until during the afternoon lessons , when I noticed that she had been sent to stand alone in the middle of the schoolroom . |
| 6 | I did so , feeling rather strange to stand half-undressed in the presence of a mummified corpse . |
| 7 | For the more technically minded , the new Baltoro Windstopper jacket stands alone in the market . |
| 8 | The following week I went to Rampton Special Hospital which stands isolated in the countryside of north Nottinghamshire . |
| 9 | The glass stands silent in the gallery , he wrote , but it burns up the lies of the gallery . |
| 10 | Ordinary shares stand last in the queue for payment of dividends and return of capital . |
| 11 | Stressing the importance of political stability , he declared : " Socialist China will stand rock-solid in the East . " |
| 12 | She closed her eyes and tried to picture herself , but three days ago , in her mother 's sitting-room , making up the fire , carrying trays , standing apprehensive in the doorway dreading a fresh outburst against her selfishness in going away . |
| 13 | Standing empty in the mansion , oh . |
| 14 | But Professor Avenarius was late , and I kept watching the woman ; she was alone at the pool , standing waist-deep in the water , and she kept looking up at the young lifeguard in sweatpants who was teaching her to swim . |
| 15 | Standing high in the nave is the pulpit attributed to Grinling Gibbons . |
| 16 | The possibility of achieving the semblance of virtue by working at standing high in the teacher 's estimation , seems to us a perfect nursery for the acquisition of the criminal or exploitative view of the social world . |
| 17 | On the last evening of my visit to you I was standing half-hidden in the bushes , watching the sun go down . |
| 18 | Or rather , as she then , standing tense in the emptiness felt it , she had become something exceedingly small , smaller than the jar of marmalade and more mobile , as small as a mouse , or as an electric spark , which was impelled to run very fast , invisibly fast , round and round the house , altering it in some way which was now imperative . |
| 19 | Instead , a now very fat Halima would be found at all times of day , demanding oats , by standing deep in the fence with wires right up to her armpits ! |
| 20 | He had n't spotted them standing deep in the shadows . |
| 21 | He stepped past an old lady , standing still in the middle of the pavement , seemingly looking across the road at a man in elbow-crutches waiting to cross the street . |
| 22 | The man was standing undecided in the middle of the road like a rabbit caught in headlights at night . |
| 23 | It started with William standing alone in the middle of a street in a typical medieval city . |
| 24 | He was standing alone in the middle of the bridge . |
| 25 | Five minutes later they had gone and Melissa was standing alone in the middle of the courtyard , wondering what to do next . |
| 26 | Eachuinn Odhar was standing alone in the bows , one hand on the high dragonhead that was no more rigid than himself , staring forward after the grey veils of rain that swept past and away ahead . |
| 27 | That 's the difficult part of the job , not the analysis but standing alone in the witness-box to defend it under cross-examination . |
| 28 | It is then that all hell has broken loose and we have found ourselves standing alone in the jungle again . |
| 29 | The two women putting finishing touches to the buffet supper turned as one , surprise in the smiles they gave the slender figure standing alone in the doorway . |
| 30 | The place which seems above all to encapsulate the spirit of the Derwent Ings is Aughton church , standing alone in the marshlands , its churchyard lapped by floods each winter and haunted by the bubbling call of the curlew in spring . |