Example sentences of "which stood [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a figure of Athena ( fig. 73 ) , headless , which stood on a column inscribed with the names of Angelitos as dedicator and Euenor as maker . |
| 2 | Rollers for the pump flat-rods or chains , and the winding chain , were positioned at intervals up the incline to a pivot and a wheel at the tunnel mouth , then along the tunnel to a balance-bob which stood on a platform cut out specially , and the winding chain over a heavy sheaved wheel above the shaft . |
| 3 | Cathy picked up the telephone which stood on a side table . |
| 4 | This peculiarly unpleasant mixture combined to become a mudflow , which over-ran everything in its path ; in particular a large sugar processing plant , the Usine Guerin , which stood on a tongue of flat land in the valley of the Riviere Blanche , surrounded by sugar-cane plantations . |
| 5 | She lay on her back on a wooden trestle table which stood under a palm leaf awning in the shady corner of a broad courtyard in the Place of Healing . |
| 6 | a nationalism which stood upon a critique of the very idea of civil society , a movement supported by the bourgeoisie which rejected the idea of progress , the ideology of a political organisation fighting for the creation of a modern national State which accepted at the same time the ideology of ‘ enlightened anarchy ’ . |
| 7 | It differed considerably from the big brash construction currently on display at the town hall , which stood beneath a sign which read |