Example sentences of "he stood [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He stood unsuccessfully as a Liberal Unionist candidate for Parliament in the 1885 and 1886 elections in north Leeds and the Pudsey division of Yorkshire . |
| 2 | He stood there for a time , head bowed and in the end , simply said no . |
| 3 | He stood there for a moment and then said , in a gentler voice , " I did n't mean that the way it sounded … " |
| 4 | He stood there for a few moments . |
| 5 | He stood there like a stone figure . |
| 6 | He stood there like an idiot as she clasped him by the arms and kissed him on the cheek . |
| 7 | But he stood there in a pew , with the flowers . |