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 up with a muttered curse of impatience , and when the lightning flashed a little while later she caught a glimpse of his hunched back . |
| 3 | He stood up like a man in a dream . |
| 4 | He stood there for a time , head bowed and in the end , simply said no . |
| 5 | He stood there for a moment and then said , in a gentler voice , " I did n't mean that the way it sounded … " |
| 6 | He stood there for a few moments . |
| 7 | He stood there like a stone figure . |
| 8 | He stood there like an idiot as she clasped him by the arms and kissed him on the cheek . |
| 9 | But he stood there in a pew , with the flowers . |
| 10 | ‘ His underlying motive is that he wants to change the world , not so he can manage it , but so that he can make it a different place , ’ explains Charles Handy , who picked Gould out from a handful of students at the London Business School ‘ because he stood out in a group of people as by far the most interesting , and that was because he was determined to have control over his life ’ . |
| 11 | I believe at Glastonbury he would have blended well with the bill : at Finsbury Park he stood out like a sore thumb . |
| 12 | He stood out like a sore thumb for Sheff Utd , I think I even remember him from his Palace days . |