Example sentences of "he stood [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Creed had requisitioned an open car , and he stood for the entire procession , as a mark of his own personal respect for the deceased . |
| 2 | In 1964 he stood for the pretty safe ( at the time ) Conservative seat of Glasgow Pollok . |
| 3 | He stood as the Liberal Party candidate in Edinburgh in the 1966 and 1970 elections and joined the BNP two years ago . |
| 4 | Drawing a deep breath to hide a flicker of nervousness , he stood at the great carved oak lectern and looked along the stalls at the nuns who sat before him there , so composed in their wimples of white and the dark garb of their Order . |
| 5 | He stood at the ornate head of the stairs and listened . |
| 6 | He stood beside the broken glass of his front door as he described how the white neighbours — assisted by two West Indian girls — hauled him into the court and beat him . |
| 7 | Having managed to come by a decent bit of steak and kidney , he stood over the young maid , who came in once a week , until she had managed to produce a pie , later warmed up for dinner in the microwave . |
| 8 | The man refused to come clear ; he stood on the far side of the horse , soothing the animal and examining the fresh wound on its neck . |
| 9 | He stood on the bottom step long after the heavy metal grids had been pulled across the foyer and the last of the cinema lights turned off . |
| 10 | No , the sea , said Wilkie , and she looked out , at the Stella Maris , anchored off the coast , and there he stood on the curving prow , pale on the pale sky , with a triangular patch of yellow like a painted sun — Van Gogh chrome , not Renaissance gilt — between his thighs and his limbs creamy-brown like the foam on the new cappuccino coffee . |
| 11 | His heart thumped as he stood on the Yugoslav border and stared through the night at the nearby fields in Hungary . |
| 12 | He stood with the conical helmet cradled clumsily under his arm . |
| 13 | He stood outside the low , broad door , listening , then put his hand out flat against the wood and gently pushed . |
| 14 | He stood in the shattered doorway , confronting his monster , a shadow among shadows . |
| 15 | No wonder Mosley was smiling as he stood in the cast council chamber . |
| 16 | He stood in the front row of the congregation immediately beneath one of the huge , heavily-ornamented lecterns , and during the readings his rapt , upturned face caught the light from the lectern 's candles . |
| 17 | As he stood in the drizzling rain he welcomed it : the contrast in temperature was huge compared with Helsinki . |
| 18 | So there he stood in the Dirty Duck , opposite Shakespeare 's Memorial Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon , 1951 , Prince of the heap . |
| 19 | It had seemed to him that her eyes looked right into his as he stood in the darkened hall , staring into the room . |
| 20 | He stood in the damp boots that leaked the snow wet to his socks , and he hated the man who sat at the desk . |
| 21 | Edouard went back down the stairs ; he stood in the huge marble-floored foyer , and closed his eyes . |
| 22 | with the ineffable modesty that , because he stood in the direct line of the Apostolic Succession , he had a better right to preach the Gospel and to administer the Sacraments , and was more a minister of Christ than Dr Dale or Mr Spurgeon or Henry Ward Beecher … what could they do but laugh ? |
| 23 | Dowd shivered with unease as he stood in the plain hallway of the Tower , knowing that somewhere nearby was the largest collection of magical writings gathered in one place outside the Vatican , and that amongst them would be many rituals for the raising and dispatching of creatures like himself . |
| 24 | He stood in the crude stirrups of his saddle and smelled the air hard , seeming satisfied . |
| 25 | He stood in the crude stirrups of his saddle and smelled the air hard , seeming satisfied . |
| 26 | As he stood in the torrential rain , and peered this way and that , the Mason and Garvey stood with their arms round each other 's shoulders , in the doorway of the inn , watching him in puzzled amusement . |
| 27 | There he stood before the official inquiry in his crisp , bemedalled marine uniform , his voice breaking with emotion as he lectured the assembled politicians on what was in the nation 's interests as if he himself had just invented patriotism . |
| 28 | Pulling himself up from the floor he stood before the dying fire , his short fat legs and large stomach making Michael feel sick inside . |
| 29 | He was waiting for a couple of soluble aspirin to break up in a glass of water as he stood before the opened mirror-cabinet . |
| 30 | He stood before the rusty , blood-stained block , his face covered by a black hood as he leaned on a great two-edged axe . |