Example sentences of "stand [adj] to the [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | ‘ Stay there , ’ he said and got out to stand close to the vehicle . |
| 2 | The tomb is the work of Leone Leoni whose own memorial , his house , stands close to the Duomo ( see page 90 ) . |
| 3 | She stands close to the bed , and for the first time I see her naked : Agnes , the heroine of my novel . |
| 4 | When selection is the main focus of assessment a test that provides information on where a pupil stands relative to the group taking the test is most likely to be used . |
| 5 | The manor house is a Grade II listed building and stands next to the church . |
| 6 | It stands next to the South Park aviary . |
| 7 | This elegant listed Georgian house stands near to the centre of a picturesque market town in a quiet yet central position . |
| 8 | These artists clearly stand close to the Pioneers and are attempting to adapt black-figure to the new movement , with some success : crowded compositions , figures overlapping each other or the borders or cut off by them , vigorous drawing with rather slap dash incision ; but the elaborate fore shortenings and musculature are not much attempted and do not come off very well . |
| 9 | The houses stand close to the road , with some of the oldest of the village 's houses , its two public houses , the post office and the local supermarket all enduring the unremitting throb of the traffic as cars and lorries pound through its narrow confines taking holidaymakers to the coast at the weekend and workers to the British Gas terminal at Easington through the week . |
| 10 | Most casualties ( 46% ) recorded involved people who were at the time of the incident standing in buses , but it is not always clear from the recorded data whether the passengers were standing due to the vehicle 's seating capacity being fully utilised or were on their feet moving towards a seat or the bus exit . |
| 11 | John was standing rooted to the spot , his expression stony . |
| 12 | Darlington could hardly have made a worse start , goalkeeper Mark Prudhoe and his fellow defenders standing frozen to the spot as Preece smartly turned and shot into the top left corner in the ninth minute . |
| 13 | The coroner was fretting , hopping from foot to foot , standing close to the wall of the house , well away from the crowds which now thronged the entire thoroughfare of Cheapside . |
| 14 | Make the request standing close to the child ; with a young child get down close to the height of the little one . |
| 15 | From the forbidden dry valley I followed the path to Seaty Hill , a Bronze Age tumulus standing close to the point at which Mastiles Lane joins the main tarmac road and an indication of the deep roots of man 's existence in the Dales . |
| 16 | Miss Davison , who was standing close to the rails a few yards from me , suddenly ducked under the railings as the horses came up . |
| 17 | She put the bowl down on top of a chest of drawers standing next to the bed and folded her arms . |
| 18 | The little one that was standing next to the pram was about Oliver 's age was n't she ? |
| 19 | Standing next to the Hudson will be the eagerly-awaited Bristol Beaufort , currently being prepared at Cardington , this aircraft will be displayed as ‘ DD931 ’ , a 42 Squadron Mk I of Coastal Command . |
| 20 | She nodded towards his suitcase standing next to the desk . |
| 21 | A boy was standing next to the table , looking at Jean-Paul shyly . |
| 22 | ‘ Too refined , ’ Julia explained didactically and pressed on to introduce him to the black and white humbug types labelled British Alpines , standing next to the skewbald variety called British Toggenbergs . |
| 23 | She saw that the leader of the religious group had separated himself from the majority and was standing near to the sea 's edge and looking directly at the horizon . |
| 24 | I showed him the photograph but he declared that the cottage had stood close to the road , nowhere near my site . |
| 25 | He had come as he did each day with bread from the baker 's iron oven that stood open to the lane in the souk . |
| 26 | The newly painted double doors stood open to the yard , where a timber-lorry was being unloaded . |
| 27 | The doctor said something incomprehensible about Angharad 's medical condition , and Betty praised a corner cupboard of Welsh oak which stood adjacent to the window . |
| 28 | They owned a freehold tenement that stood close to the north door of the church and another small tenement in Houlston township , which they normally let to tenants . |
| 29 | This particular mill was at Oxlynch and stood close to the twin sources of the Arlebrook . |
| 30 | This stood close to the confluence of the Cone and Aylesmore Brooks . |