Example sentences of "and [pron] stood [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I saw him a few times more after that , in the months that followed , coming slowly up the lane from the station , as Millie and I stood at the gate . |
| 2 | Twenty pleasant minutes retraced the morning 's steps and I stood beside the Land Rover waving goodbye and listening to the blue van 's familiar toots as it continued north . |
| 3 | You only got one shot — this was live television — and I stood in the wings , rigid with fear , listening to my heart booming . |
| 4 | Nellie Tanner had reached Aggie 's front door and she stood over the dumpy , dark-haired woman . |
| 5 | Dalgliesh waited until Meg had unlocked the front door and stepped inside before saying his final goodnight , and she stood for a moment watching his tall figure striding down the gravel path and into the darkness . |
| 6 | It was something that had never happened before and she stood for a moment trying to control the thoughts that raced through her head . |
| 7 | Melissa found its clean , uncluttered lines at once calming and uplifting , and she stood for a few moments just inside the door , absorbing the tranquil atmosphere . |
| 8 | It vanished completely as Alec opened the door for her and she stood on the threshold , looking into the dark , listening to the wind whining away outside the house . |
| 9 | She turned up when Laura was married in 1984 and she stood at the back of the church because she did not want to detract from the bride 's big day . |
| 10 | He went down the stairs , and she stood at the top of them screaming . |
| 11 | They got us off and the bus disappeared , but there was still a reason why we could not board — they never let on what it was — — and we stood on the tarmac for a long time before being herded to the back entrance . |
| 12 | I opened it and we stood for a moment , rain driving down hard . |
| 13 | ‘ Come in a moment , ’ she said , and we stood in the darkened hall . |
| 14 | Specifically , several of his pictures hung on the walls , and one stood on an easel in the centre of the living-room . |
| 15 | He took off his glasses and put his arms around her waist , and they stood for a while facing one another . |
| 16 | And they stood at the door , and of course he come home with his cap in his hand , he said er they said oh what you do how you got on today ? |
| 17 | It resisted for a moment , then swung completely open , and they stood on the threshold , goggling in . |
| 18 | Three Mutawas had been told of the indignation from the foreign community and they stood with the armed guards at the entry of the delivery theatre to ensure that no sympathetic foreigner assisted the girl to escape . |
| 19 | And they stood in a corner and drank them , and exchanged their names , at last : she much admired the clear way with which he presented his own . |
| 20 | He had met him on his way to the stables , and they stood in a yard which was busy with blacksmiths and farriers . |
| 21 | Waterworth still wanted to fight , claimed Mr Prescott and he stood between the two men trying to get his girlfriend back into the pub . |
| 22 | Giving himself dialogue seemed to calm him and he stood for a moment , arms idle at his side , breathing slowly and heavily . |
| 23 | We were back in the bedroom then and he stood for a moment looking down at her . |
| 24 | Creed had requisitioned an open car , and he stood for the entire procession , as a mark of his own personal respect for the deceased . |
| 25 | But he fell asleep , and he stood on a chair , fell off and broke his arm . |
| 26 | The fertile combination of theory and practice was his own , however , and he stood at the head of a great group of people working on the new phenomena of electricity . |
| 27 | Alain came in as the doctor 's car left the house and he stood at the foot of the bed and regarded her sternly . |
| 28 | In 1981 he was chairman of the Computer Retailers ' Association , and he stood as a local government candidate for Rother Valley in the 1987 General Election . |
| 29 | Philip Snowden , who had been a harder-line pacifist during the war than the more pragmatic Macdonald , was now Labour 's Chancellor , and he stood like a rock against all attempts to introduce new economic thinking . |
| 30 | Philip Brooks was director of Holy Trinity church in Philadelphia , erm on , and he was in the Holy Land on Christmas Eve in eighteen sixty five , and he stood in a field outside Bethlehem where the shepherds were supposed to have received the annunciation , and thought of the beginning of O Little Town of Bethlehem . |