Example sentences of "stand [adv prt] by the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Do you think you could ask them all to stand over by the window , please ? |
| 2 | And by the way , I do n't know why we 're sitting crouched down here because we could stand up by the spruce there : its shadow is darker than the sky , and we could be more ready for them . |
| 3 | ‘ We have always been a very tired family , ’ Finch said loftily to Henry , both aged twenty-eight , Finch lying back in a large bed with his cello on his ex-girl friend 's pillow and Henry standing up by the gas fire . |
| 4 | ‘ Riot guides and drug protests and minor jokes about policemen , ’ said a man in a mackintosh , standing up by the gas fire and talking fixedly about the broadsheet , eying it in its filing place . |
| 5 | He ate it standing up by the sink , and deliberately left the little pot on the marble work surface . |
| 6 | A scrawny boy , his hand wrapped up in a bloodstained rag , his clothes caked in mud , who looked sicker than some of her patients , and the pale , sullen girl who stood over by the teatrolley , shifting awkwardly from one foot to the other and looking as if she did n't have a brain in her head . |
| 7 | Edouard stood back by the doors , watching her , his face oddly closed . |