Example sentences of "stand [conj] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At a rough guess , Pierremont Gardens today stands where the real gardens of Pierremont used to be . |
| 2 | The use of words and symbols to influence other people in predictable ways requires that the child must be able to represent mentally the relationship between the symbol ( word or gesture ) , the meaning for which it stands and the intended effect on the other person . |
| 3 | and say , Now we want to sort you out , see who 's going where , so we can organize the coach now , and if you 're interested in Scarborough go and stand in that circle , Whit Whitby there , interested in both then stand where the two circles intersect . |
| 4 | The opposite bank — which stands for success — seems very near but between where we stand and the opposite bank there is a ravine which is going to absorb a great deal of money . |
| 5 | The arch will stand once the last stone is in place , but the intermediate stages are unstable . |
| 6 | Very , very confusing this is , the world is going upside down and he do n't know what 's going to happen next you see , for instance looking a year ago , two years ago the wall , the Berlin Wall was standing and the Russian empire was feared , all over the world , and now this day , it just fell on its face |
| 7 | Or would it resist even time and the North Sea and still be standing when the final darkness fell over the planet ? |
| 8 | Horatia fled and Rossmayne went back to the window where he had been standing when the bad dream had begun . |
| 9 | He stood and the blonde head moved down his body , the scarlet nails deftly worked his trousers loose . |
| 10 | Carpenter and Just ( 1983 ) recorded the fixations made by readers when reading a syntactically ambiguous sentence ( ’ The pickpocket stood before the black-robed judge entered the courtroom to convene the jury . ’ ) |