Example sentences of "he stood on [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a few months he stood on a European par with Adler and Liebknecht and tried to take responsibility for Russians interned after the Brest–Litovsk peace . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | His heart thumped as he stood on the Yugoslav border and stared through the night at the nearby fields in Hungary . |