Example sentences of "while standing [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While standing at the corner with some of the boys , a tall , well-built , red-haired man approached them , and said : |
| 2 | Noël Coward was inspired to write the song ‘ London Pride ’ while standing on the platform of a London station on the morning after a particularly bad blitz and seeing Londoners going about their business ‘ gay and determined and wholly admirable ’ . |
| 3 | Bees learn colour only in the final three seconds as they land : the colour visible to the bee before the landing sequence , the colours it sees while standing on the flower to feed and while circling the blossom before flying off , simply never register . |
| 4 | Punctuated by interjections from Mark , Clem told the story of how Mark had fallen into a barrel of high viscosity oil while standing on the lid to get at another barrel with his hand pump . |
| 5 | Sylvia was able to take from the cupboard only those items she could reach while standing in the hall itself . |
| 6 | As herons fish while standing in the pool , it is a simple matter to deter them . |
| 7 | Stewart had filled in the V62 form while standing in the queue moments before staging the hold-up , the jury heard . |