Example sentences of "were stand on the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At this point the two girls just marched off the train , one of them picked up David , the other one picked me up , screamed Russian things at the soldiers — I have n't a clue what they were saying — and marched us back on the train and barred the door , while the Russian soldiers were standing on the platform screaming horrible things at them . |
| 2 | The man and his brother were standing on the platform minding their own business . ’ |
| 3 | Tom and Peter and Peter 's new friend Jay were standing on the platform waiting for the southbound Jubilee train . |
| 4 | Early fog had cleared and the airport manager and I were standing on the tarmac lining up the motorcade when my car phone rang . |
| 5 | The trip was mercifully brief , little more than an hour , and soon they were standing on the tarmac at Ciampino Airport . |
| 6 | The two men were standing on the balcony outside James 's flat when they saw smoke billowing out of the 75-year-old woman 's home below . |
| 7 | She felt as though she were standing on the edge of a great chasm , with him on the other side urging her to jump across to him . |
| 8 | A few miles away , however , a handful of confident zemindars were standing on the embankment with the water almost licking their sandals . |
| 9 | Two Frenchmen were standing on the sand beside their little van . |
| 10 | They were standing on the lawn in front of the lovely red-brick house with its weathered old red tiles and its tall chimneys , and Miss Honey still had the pair of garden clippers in one hand . |
| 11 | They were standing on the jetty with a score of chattering women , waiting for the launch that would take them to the depot ship Omega . |
| 12 | We were standing on the jetty . |
| 13 | He had come to the banqueting hall in order to have a look at the river from the roof ; the river had risen and widened so much that the entire countryside seemed to be sliding past and one felt as if one were standing on the deck of a ship . |
| 14 | And when they arrived some of the Celtic tribes were standing on the shore and they were very very fierce , bright red hair some of them had and beards . |
| 15 | They were standing on the side of the road , with the forest behind them and the Robemaker 's Workshops directly ahead . |
| 16 | They were standing on the footpath beside their cars . |
| 17 | They were standing on the footpath beside their cars . |
| 18 | They were standing on the waste ground behind the car park which Hoomey had crossed on his way to Bean 's . |
| 19 | And we were standing on the end of the house and I thought I had nothing to tie that down with but there were concrete blocks there I had a pile of those in the corner and well it took the whole blooming thing . |
| 20 | Sharks stayed outside the reef , while Trent knew Arab net fishermen in the Persian Gulf whose calf muscles had been ripped out by barracudas while they were standing on the coral with the water below their knees . |
| 21 | They were standing on the terrace just before lunch , watching the shrinking white mantle that had covered the slopes for the last two days , when a dark shape moving fast appeared further up the valley . |
| 22 | And then the silence of the hillside was rent by a further sound , a high buzzing at first like a gigantic and enraged wasp , and then a roar and a rending of the air , so that Molly felt as though she were standing on the bridge of a warship and some huge Exocet missile was being hurled in her direction . |
| 23 | Pat Ayers quotes one of those same street people : ‘ Just say you were standing on the corner , now if you had seen a policeman coming over the bridge … you automatically moved . |
| 24 | Crowds of men were standing on the river-bank , pushing and jostling , craning their necks and shifting position , trying to get a view through the mass of bodies and out across the water . |
| 25 | On the opposite side of the quadrangle , silhouetted figures were standing on the roofs , whooping and jumping about . |
| 26 | She said that she had ‘ accidentally brushed against one of the four girls who were standing on the pavement ’ , whereupon ‘ all four caught hold of her , and beat her in a most savage manner , using fearful language ’ and left her on the pound bleeding profusely from the nose and mouth . |