Example sentences of "stand [adv] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pa has given special permission for the godparents and me to stand inside at the Jonah window , while he does the immersion outside . |
| 2 | Its regulated , preventive surveillance features , in practice meant ‘ moving on ’ those civilians who dared to stand idly at the street corner . |
| 3 | Glen Ball , the Neath coach and team manager , is to stand down at the end of the season . |
| 4 | The baptistery stands separately at the south-west corner of the cathedral and was begun in 1196 . |
| 5 | One per over per batsman is the ration , with a bouncer being defined as a ball passing over the batsman 's shoulder as he stands upright at the crease . |
| 6 | But then I 've got ta meet Emma and she stands up at the top . |
| 7 | It was better to stand out at the beginning than to go in with the expectation that he would soon have to provoke a further crisis by resignation . |
| 8 | I 've known loads of people who who are working full time , and they come home Friday and the go out Friday night , stand up at the bar , and drink twenty pints or whatever , ten pints . |
| 9 | Sometimes in the Cauldhame Arms I stand up at the urinal , but most if it ends up running down my hands or legs . |
| 10 | As Korah , Dathan and Abiram stand defiantly at the doors of their tents with their wives and children , the ground opens beneath them and swallows them up , together with the tents and all their belongings . |
| 11 | They all s they stand there at the door going lighter as if it matters they have to get off the train with a cigarette in their mouth or they 're uncool , some shit like this |
| 12 | She stepped through the sinister half-circle of rajathuks and saw Morthen , standing uneasily at the entrance of the enclosure . |
| 13 | Bernice , Francis and Elaine found him there , standing indecisively at the centre of a crossroads of corridors . |
| 14 | The shop bell had tinkled frequently for the past hour , most of the customers having been the ha'penny and penny ones , some of whom were now standing outside at the shop window oohing and aahing at the Christmas goodies displayed there , all entwined with coloured streamers and illuminated by the two gas lamps attached to the side wall of the shop and plopping inside their pretty pink glass globes , while casting a rosy light overall , even over the small faces pressed against the window . |
| 15 | Celia , standing uncertainly at the door of the nursery while her son was finishing his bottle , had been feeling rather de trop . |
| 16 | The ICC definition of a ‘ fast , short-pitched ball ’ is one which ‘ passes , or would have passed , above the shoulder of the batsman standing upright at the crease ’ . |
| 17 | Oh oh my hair 's standing up at the back of my neck . |
| 18 | The more he thought of the two carpet-baggers standing up at the podium , the more intense the pains in his head became . |
| 19 | I spent the morning sitting on the floor and the afternoon standing up at the shelf . |
| 20 | ‘ Now that it 's over , you 'd expect they 'd start getting things right at last , would n't you ? ’ said Mrs Parvis , standing up at the end of the table to ladle out to her assembled household . |
| 21 | because if he put the bath right in there , I would be standing up at the end of the bath |
| 22 | Marcus , standing now at the foot of the bed , carefully rolled up his sleeves . |
| 23 | Dignity right now seemed a bit optimistic , when she could feel her eyes blurring over with tears , but anything was better than standing here at the foot of the stairs , rooted to the spot and subjected mercilessly to his naked inspection of her . |
| 24 | Standing around at the finish , I remembered all of them . |
| 25 | In daylight the mound is still to be seen and is worth the climb for views of the sea , the plain of Holderness , and the village itself with the church standing proudly at the west end of the village . |
| 26 | They entered the trench , leaving Astorre and Thomas and Pesaro standing silently at the entrance . |
| 27 | She thought she would fall to the floor , or faint , standing there at the mercy of his ravishing mouth , and perhaps he sensed something of her helplessness , because he raised his head again almost immediately . |
| 28 | ‘ I can still remember standing there at the party when that woman Pargeter told me . |
| 29 | Ranteallo was standing nearby at the front of the crowd , urging us on . |
| 30 | ‘ She 's been like that most of the afternoon , ’ Sister Duggan , who was standing by at the foot of the bed , told him . |