Example sentences of "stand like a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It stands like a phallic exhortation to the newly-weds living around it , but was a hive of industry once , dating possibly from the seventeenth century . |
| 2 | He has multiplied his numbers to plague proportions , caused the extinction of 500 species of animals , ransacked the planet for fuels and now stands like a brutish infant , gloating over this meteoric rise to ascendancy , on the brink of a war to end all wars and of effectively destroying this oasis of life in the solar system . |
| 3 | And all Sean Walsh can do is stand like a stuffed dummy in that hospital and talk about me ! ’ |
| 4 | Every Saturday found me in the Hippodrome , our nearest cinema , which stood like a red-brick wireless set at the junction of Main Street , Byrely Road and Auckland Terrace . |
| 5 | Molassi sat cross legged next to a thin column of bright white light , which stood like a radiant strut at the centre of the chamber . |
| 6 | When every seat was taken the Foundling children filed to their places , filling the gallery where the organ stood like a turreted castle , girls on the left in snowy white , and darkly dressed boys on the right . |
| 7 | He dropped his hands to his sides and stood like a little dog , found out , and admitting : ‘ Yes , I know I have a silly sort of fancy for Lal . |
| 8 | Charles stood like a carved idol receiving the homage of the faithful . |