Example sentences of "she stood [v-ing] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | She stood listening for a few minutes , trying not to smile . |
| 2 | She was breathing too hard , too noisily she stood looking into a window to slow her breath . |
| 3 | Then , instead of running over the main road to our street , she stood waving for a bit and then walked backwards down the post part and started going up someone 's drive . |
| 4 | I seem to remember , Bill , way back in 1979 during the election campaign , Margaret Thatcher had a small calf pressed upon her , which she stood holding in a field in East Anglia or something , so I mean it 's not just erm John Major . |
| 5 | As she stood waiting for a taxi a speeding car appeared out of the freezing fog . |