Example sentences of "they stood on the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They stood on the concrete steps reviewing the dismal scene as if it were a personal insult . |
| 2 | They stood on the landward edge of the riverside path , very close to the lipping water . |
| 3 | Five minutes later they stood on the grassy bank looking down at the brown water . |
| 4 | They stood on the warm asphalt . |
| 5 | No doubt Temple remembered that once they stood on the same platform at Cambridge . |
| 6 | Relatively little is known of the first great temples , which were built between 2000 and 1900 BC and destroyed by earthquakes in 1700 BC , except that they stood on the same sites as the later temples . |