Example sentences of "a [noun sg] stand on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , a priest stood on the floor of the parliament and refused to yield before being allowed to speak . |
| 2 | Aston Villa , but they 're t , first division though , empty net , there 's a bloke standing on the line , how can it be empty , let's have a look oh Woking lost , Leicester did n't play tonight , no |
| 3 | Examples would be : where the act is not seen , as when the victim is asleep ; where the victim believes that the gun was unloaded ( Lamb [ 1967 ] 2 QB 981 ) ; where the victim knows by the accused 's words that the threat will not take place ( Tuberville v Savage ( 1669 ) 86 ER 684 ; or where the accused could not put his threat into effect : the usual illustrations are shaking a fist while on a non-stop train at a person standing on the platform and doing the same to a person standing on the opposite bank of a fast-flowing and wide river where there is no bridge . |
| 4 | Examples would be : where the act is not seen , as when the victim is asleep ; where the victim believes that the gun was unloaded ( Lamb [ 1967 ] 2 QB 981 ) ; where the victim knows by the accused 's words that the threat will not take place ( Tuberville v Savage ( 1669 ) 86 ER 684 ; or where the accused could not put his threat into effect : the usual illustrations are shaking a fist while on a non-stop train at a person standing on the platform and doing the same to a person standing on the opposite bank of a fast-flowing and wide river where there is no bridge . |
| 5 | ‘ The way we sex a grape , or vineyard , in New Zealand , ’ he began , ‘ to ensure that there is the right amount of grape exposed to the sunlight , is to ask a friend to stand on the other side of the vine . |
| 6 | The room was small , and if a chair stood on the other side of the fireplace from where Aunt Louise sat , it was in the way of anyone passing through the door leading into the kitchen , or that leading to the stairs . |
| 7 | At clipping time the sheep were driven in and penned , and as they were clipped , the fleeces were thrown up to a helper standing on the gallery and put at once into the wool store . |
| 8 | Within the last 20 years it was the practice here to pen the sheep for clipping and for the fleeces to be thrown up to a helper standing on the gallery , who put them at once into the barn for storage . |
| 9 | A man stood on the porch , his hands in the pocket of his beige mackintosh . |
| 10 | A pile of wooden boxes as tall as a man stood on the quay . |
| 11 | A silver tray containing a bottle of mineral water and a glass stood on the polished wood dressing-table . |
| 12 | In which part can a child/adult stand on the bottom ? |
| 13 | Today a house stands on the site , at the entrance of the Millfields development . |