Example sentences of "stood [adj] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It stood right at the edge of the woods , in a huge garden full of trees which towered high above the roof . |
| 2 | ‘ Jimi was playing in the rain and I stood right at the front of the stage and water dripped right off the tips of his boots onto my head . |
| 3 | Nearly every village has some secret treasure to be discovered ; be it a pottery , a moated rectory , or the ruins of an abbey or priory , dozens of which stood resplendent throughout the region before the dissolution of the monasteries . |
| 4 | The teapot stood tall above the rest of the set on the tray shining magnificently . |
| 5 | Frere stood tall on the ice , his head thrown back in laughter . |
| 6 | His judgment was almost impeccable , and on the ground where he had been caught for 99 five years earlier ( by Gower , the only current survivor from that England side ) , he now stood tall among the innings ruins . |
| 7 | Maurice stood half in the shadow , half brightly purple , and at last was able to say . |
| 8 | She turned away from the door , stood irresolute outside the door of her own cabin . |
| 9 | Each house stood high on the hillside that sloped down to the lakeside road , with curling or zig-zagging driveways and thick modern stone walls . |
| 10 | The president , meanwhile , stood high in the public opinion polls after the attempt to assassinate him at the end of March . |
| 11 | Agnes Fogerty , quiet and still as a mouse , and not unlike that timid animal in her much-pressed grey flannel skirt and twin-set to match , stood oblivious of the chaos around her . |
| 12 | They stood impassive as the optic burner angled across them , glinting red but not yet activated . |
| 13 | Here , as in her own city , bomb-ravaged buildings stood stark against the glow of a sinking sun , strangely , tragically beautiful . |
| 14 | Athelstan made his way north to the Elms near Newgate where a great three-branched scaffold stood stark against the sky ; each bore its grisly burden , a corpse swinging by its neck , head askew , hands and feet securely tied . |
| 15 | The two full glasses of wine still stood untouched on the table . |
| 16 | Juliet stood half-way down the stairs , familiarly pale . |
| 17 | He stood ice-cool in the confusion as if practising on the range ; feet apart and gun at arm 's length , squinting through the sight so he did n't waste a round . |
| 18 | As a Celtic-mad kid of 11 , Creaney stood wide-eyed on the Parkhead terraces to watch his heroes take on the best in Europe . |
| 19 | He stood straighter in the water , his broad chest glistening wetly in the multicoloured light . |
| 20 | Stood firm on the footpath . |
| 21 | Under the leadership of Paulinho Paiakan ( Chief of the Kayapo people ) the Xavante , the Arara , the Gaviao and the Yanomami stood firm against the might of money and earned their territories a much needed respite . |
| 22 | whose influence on penal reform in the postwar period was outstanding , and he stood firm in the face of some ministerial pressure in the difficult period of unrest following the recent Dartmoor mutiny . |
| 23 | She pushed open the door and stood still on the threshold . |
| 24 | She stood still on the track , and , as she stared up at him , the shaft of moonlight slanting across her , her face betrayed surprise as she exclaimed , ‘ Silas — you amaze me . |
| 25 | Farquhar stood still under the pain and the pressure . |
| 26 | Then he stood still in the centre of the church , waiting for his bride . |
| 27 | Time stood still in the attic room while they exchanged the most innocent of kisses and embraces , and McAllister faced her future , the bruises slowly disappearing from her wounded spirit under the healing power of true love . |
| 28 | He had held out his arms , but they fell to his side , because she stood still in the doorway . |
| 29 | A door stood ajar on the landing and Carrie saw the bottom end of a silk-covered bed and drawn , silken curtains . |
| 30 | A quarter of an hour later he stood alone at the edge of the High Street with as little notion of his next steps as a soldier discharged in Madras with the whole of India , Arabia , and Africa lying between him and his homeland . |