Example sentences of "stand [adv prt] there [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it 's nice to stand out there in the warm steam , getting warm . |
| 2 | I stand up there in the pulpit every Sunday mornin' looking down at the upturned faces searchin' for yours , but in vain . |
| 3 | Come in , Sergeant Joe , do n't stand out there in the cold , I 'll get Archie for yer-'ere , no yer do n't , yer crafty fly-be-night . ’ |
| 4 | What made the annual gathering even worse was we always had to listen to her recite the twenty-third psalm , standing up there on the stage in her white dress , white socks , black shoes . |
| 5 | When she first read the letter , standing out there in the heat of Nassau Street , Ruth was overcome by a pang of homesickness so severe that it felt like a pain burning inside her . |
| 6 | If I stood up there outside the zoo and started screaming ? |
| 7 | On this occasion , in fact , a reply of sorts did occur to me as I stood up there on the ladder ; a reply to the effect that those of our profession , although we did not see a great deal of the country in the sense of touring the countryside and visiting picturesque sites , did actually see more of England than most , placed as we were in houses where the greatest ladies and gentlemen of the land gathered . |
| 8 | And Steve obediently went off , taking with him a jar of Marmite in a garden trowel as a substitute for coal in a shovel , and he stood out there on the front porch in the cold listening to the silence and looking at the stars , waiting for them to let him in on the last stroke of Big Ben on the radio : a faint , feeble echo of some once meaningful ritual , though what it had meant or now could mean nobody there knew or had ever known . |