Example sentences of "they stood [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They stood for two minutes in silence , signalled by the firing of a gun from the Royal Navy base , HMS Tamar . |
| 2 | In fact they stood for National War Museum . |
| 3 | When they left the restaurant they stood for some moments surveying the view of Prague , its many spires , red-roofed buildings , with a green dome here , the Vltava river with some of its bridges there , the Charles Bridge in particular Then , ‘ Shall we walk the rest of the way down ? ’ |
| 4 | As they stood on either side of the door looking at one another she felt as if a magic elixir was being created , ready to cure a disease . |
| 5 | Their eyes were identically glazed in male and female as they stood on either side of a seated broadclothed patriarch . |
| 6 | Glaring from one to the other as they stood on either side of the bed , she said crossly to Lucy , ‘ So you 've brought him to see me at last . |
| 7 | Music played softly in the background as they stood on either side of the hearth , smiling uncertainly at one another like former lovers reunited after a long absence and wondering whether they still had anything in common . |
| 8 | The images were still as clear as the rain that had fallen so dispiritedly on the mourners as they stood at one side of the grave while the rector had intoned the fateful words . |
| 9 | After all the hassle they should know exactly where they stood with each other , Merrill thought as she dressed on Saturday evening . |
| 10 | They stood with rigid tension listening to the brooding silence of the jungle all around them . |
| 11 | They walked slowly up the church path , past the old graves , those so seared by time and weather that they stood as grey shapes furred with lichen , names and dates no longer legible , uniform in obscurity . |
| 12 | Now , bearded to bandaged face , they stood in utter stillness . |
| 13 | They stood in two rows , hooked up to the static lines , weighed down with parachutes and air tanks , waterproofed combat kits , clutching personal inflatable rafts attached with five metres of line to their belts , eyes tense behind the vizors of the face masks . |
| 14 | When those brief moments of ecstasy were over and the everyday world took precedence again , they stood in shocked silence while Bert Rafferty carried Celia up the cliff . |
| 15 | They stood in deep shadow by the wall of the bridge . |
| 16 | They stood in three rows of five , to be counted and then marched forward . |
| 17 | Above the rush and scurry of the traffic they stood in monumental stillness , each leaf precisely outlined against the deep blue sky . |
| 18 | They stood in fascinated awe as the immense panelled surface slid past . |
| 19 | The club-mosses and horsetails were still , for the most part , swamp-dwellers and there they stood in dense ranks , 30 metres tall , some with woody trunks two metres in diameter . |
| 20 | They stood like god-shaped statues among the small , intelligent females . |
| 21 | The edge of the crater was marked with huge splinters of stone torn up from the bedrock under the sands ; they stood like broken teeth around the scene , pointing at the sky or fallen slanted over . |
| 22 | The project involved an in-depth analysis of British Steel 's operating units to examine how they stood against international competition . |