Example sentences of "stand [adv prt] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The village stands along a single street roughly parallel with the river . |
| 2 | She sit down on the chair but she 'll want to stand up a little bit cause we got bins underneath and she wants to put her feet on the bins |
| 3 | Saturdays made no difference to us , for there was no school then , but on Wednesdays some of us had to stand up the whole way to Parma . |
| 4 | " Got to stand around a fair bit in this job , lass . |
| 5 | Never stand over an open fire as Victorian fathers used to do . |
| 6 | Lord Deverill was standing down the far end of the room , staring out of a window across the estate . |
| 7 | Soon , he found himself standing over a young Dragoon who was lying on the ground . |
| 8 | This was no great problem for Mr Berge ; being cocky and confident comes naturally to him whether he is presiding over his other little empire , the Yves Saint Laurent fashion house , or standing over a gaping hole in credibility . |
| 9 | Finally they reached their destination , to find a huge crowd of silent onlookers all standing back a respectful distance and watching in mesmerised fascination as a distraught woman sobbed and screamed for help . |
| 10 | I moved from the window and stood over a gaping crack in the floorboards and listened hard . |
| 11 | The reason for the odd name for the church , St Mary near St Satiro , is because of an ancient fresco of the Madonna and Child that stood over an external altar of the earliest ( San Satiro ) church . |
| 12 | As she stood up an empty wine bottle clattered off the bench and rolled down the pavement . |