Example sentences of "she stood [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She stood to one side and observed this pathetic self-deluding fifty-two-year-old in a state of romantic yearning and sexual excitation . |
| 2 | She stood to one side as the woman got up and , casting the strait-jacket aside , went across to the cot , bending down over it to lift and cradle the child . |
| 3 | She stood at that door waiting |
| 4 | For she knew where she stood with that family . |
| 5 | He set her down on the landing and she stood on one foot , using the wall for support while he opened his living-room door . |
| 6 | For a few minutes she stood in shocked silence ; she had been so sure that the rider from the woods had been herself … but now , realizing that the lover she had seen had been Morthen , she felt angry and upset . |
| 7 | Viola Machin , nevertheless , seemed impervious to it : she stood in bosomy grief , in a becoming coat of umber shade , dabbing her eyes at the pathetic bits of the service ; Desmond , in a heavy black coat , managed only an insurance agent 's decorous grief ; and Hilary looked as if cheerfulness might keep breaking through — which would probably , after all , be what Hilda would have liked most . |
| 8 | She needed someone to talk to about it all , needed a sharer of secrets , an ear to listen to her plans and , above all , someone to agree that she was on the right course , that both shopping expedition and holiday were what she stood in urgent need of . |
| 9 | He waved to her from the gate , where she stood like any housewife seeing off her man . |