Example sentences of "i stood [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the end of my final year I stood as a sabbatical officer for the Union . |
| 2 | This done , I stood for a moment looking across at the broch islet . |
| 3 | I stood for a moment looking at the mattress on the bed where a knife had been used to open up the sides . |
| 4 | I stood with a group of officials and other bystanders . |
| 5 | I would send it swooping over and under hers , or dive it down to the sands while I stood on a dune cliff , pulling the kite down to nick tall towers of sand I 'd built , then pulling up again , the kite trailing a spray of sand through the air from the collapsing tower . |
| 6 | If I stood on a street corner somewhere , someone could slip me a small packet in exchange for a fiver and in a few hours I 'd be slumped on the floor of a public toilet : a Drug Statistic . |
| 7 | At an election rally in the Wembley Conference Centre in 1983 , I stood on a nail in my training shoes and it went nearly four centimetres into my foot . |
| 8 | I stood amid a gaggle of laughing students in frozen silence , and read the list over and over again . |
| 9 | She said , ‘ Well , if there 's nothing else for it ’ , and began to fold and manipulate the wedding dress while I stood like a doll , cold and alien and powerless . |
| 10 | On Monday morning , I stood in a queue at the Diamond , and waited for the Dublin coach . |