Example sentences of "stand [art] few [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He sits behind a desk and you stand a few feet away with a screw facing you really close on either side . |
| 2 | There were opportunities to flirt with other passengers , moments when young American women returning from a long tour left mothers and aunts below deck , and , standing a few feet away from Edward , they stared out at the Atlantic . |
| 3 | Standing a few feet away , with a glass in his hand , was their host . |
| 4 | " Great-grandfather , you must know already that I did all I could to stop Kim taking the gibbon , " he said , whispering aloud in the hope that his fervent words might be audible to his father and grandfather standing a few feet away . |
| 5 | She was still laughing softly as she laid the phone down , but the laughter died in her throat as she looked up to see Adam standing a few feet away , his eyes hard as jet . |
| 6 | Narrow passages like that one , built in a network right from here to about where the school party was standing a few minutes ago . |
| 7 | She gave Nana a quick , guilty glance and saw the old woman , arms still folded , standing a few paces apart , maintaining her vacant expression . |
| 8 | Benjamin was standing a few yards away from the church , the ladder still in his hand . |
| 9 | When Agnes had retrieved the paperback book she had ‘ forgotten ’ in her booth and reached the street Maxim was standing a few yards away studying the map in a pocket guide of Washington . |
| 10 | Startled , she glanced back to find a man clad in the scarlet overalls and white crash helmet of a driver standing a few yards away . |
| 11 | The Dane stood a few feet away from her , shuffling his feet . |
| 12 | The three young men stood a few yards apart from their confederate in the quiet empty street by the river and waited . |
| 13 | I stood a few yards away from him , my sandalled feet feeling the mossy lawn underneath , — and then he opened his eyes . |
| 14 | ‘ Trouble with this door , ’ Deuce explained to Nicholas , who stood a few paces away sipping his champagne too quickly and ignoring the come-on of one of the dancing youths . |