Example sentences of "stand [adv] like [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even today , decades after I saw my first such microscope slide , I still think them extravagantly beautiful and can easily get lost in contemplation of the cellular thicket the microscope reveals , made the more intriguing by the curious , almost three-dimensional effect the stain gives ; as it brings into vision only a few of the total population of the neurons present , the cells seem to stand out like trees in a winter mist ( Figure 10.6 ) . |
| 2 | The simplest are fine earth spots , which stand out like molehills on a lawn and are often defined by rings of large pebbles or stones , which they appear to have shouldered aside . |
| 3 | The pale blue flowers stand out like jewels against dark , bare soil . |
| 4 | Runner still stood motionless , eyes staring straight ahead , the blue veins in his bulbous red nose standing out like lines on a map . |
| 5 | ‘ And , for goodness ’ sake , Laura , stop standing there like Joan of Arc about to be burnt at the stake ! ’ |
| 6 | It was pointed out to him — a small , plain , vaulted room with only a table for an altar and gaily-painted saints carved in wood standing about like skittles at a fair . |
| 7 | The notches and gnarls stood out like carvings on a pulpit , thrusting their beauty at him . |
| 8 | In the semi-darkness the houses around the village and the church in the centre of the green stood out like monuments with their shadows changing their shapes from time to time as a cloud obscured part of the moon . |
| 9 | His white cotton gloves stood out like beacons on the steering wheel . |
| 10 | Below the knees her calf muscles stood out like grapefruits inside her stockings . |
| 11 | Nana was small and scrawny , and the sinews in her neck stood out like guy-ropes above the demure white collar of her dark blue dress . |