Example sentences of "stood [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " We stood off the Belgian coast near Nieuport that evening and received information that Spring Flight had embarked a party of Pakistanis and was leaving harbour . |
| 2 | One may tentatively suggest that at least one English fabliau version of the tale given by Chaucer to the Shipman stood between a French source and Chaucer . |
| 3 | By May , New Guinea alone stood between the victorious Japanese and Australia . |
| 4 | A rectangular conference table and four chairs , of a type provided for senior public servants , stood between the tall windows . |
| 5 | Waterworth still wanted to fight , claimed Mr Prescott and he stood between the two men trying to get his girlfriend back into the pub . |
| 6 | Controversial priest Fr Pat Buckley was also among the losers , losing his seat to another independent , Robert Lindsay Mason , who stood as a 1990s candidate , advocating more rave parties for young people . |
| 7 | In 1880 he had had a political fling and stood as a Liberal candidate for the City of London in favour of disestablishment , temperance legislation , social and political reform . |
| 8 | He was Hampshire 's coach in 1939 and stood as a first-class umpire in 1949 , the year before his death . |
| 9 | Mr Clark , who stood as a parliamentary candidate in Motherwell North at the last election , added : ‘ I very much welcome the council group decision to demonstrate its confidence in Alex Salmond . ’ |
| 10 | ' Another worker , who stood as a Conservative councillor , said she had encountered Mr Lawson at a reception last year and had been asked by the Chancellor why she had lost . |
| 11 | In 1981 he was chairman of the Computer Retailers ' Association , and he stood as a local government candidate for Rother Valley in the 1987 General Election . |
| 12 | The resounding election victory of 21-year-old Bernadette Devlin , a student member of PD who stood as an anti-Unionist candidate , in the Mid-Ulster by-election on 17 April , was taken as affirmation of the minority 's support for Civil Rights movement . |
| 13 | In 1941 he stood as an independent candidate in four by-elections ; but although he retained his deposit on each occasion , there was to be no political comeback for this highly cantankerous patriot . |
| 14 | Dr Clarke , a retired headmaster who once stood as the Liberal candidate for Edinburgh Pentlands , is a prominent member of the far right . |
| 15 | He stood as the Liberal Party candidate in Edinburgh in the 1966 and 1970 elections and joined the BNP two years ago . |
| 16 | Despite a boycott in parts of Abkhazia , over 75 per cent of the electorate turned out to vote in the elections , in which Shevardnadze stood as the only candidate . |
| 17 | Kinloch stood as the Whig candidate in the election that followed , and in December of that year was elected the first MP for the borough . |
| 18 | I stood as the Green Party candidate in May 1988 and 1989 . |
| 19 | I stood for a long while looking at Voting Right . |
| 20 | The headless trunk stood for a long second , the blood fountaining in a gush of scarlet from the raw stump of its neck , before collapsing bonelessly to the mat . |
| 21 | Charles collapsed like a glove puppet with the hand withdrawn , and stood for a long moment , sagging . |
| 22 | She had risen from her deep curtsey , and stood for a long moment gazing steadily into his face . |
| 23 | I had an old air-raid shelter , partly dug into the ground because of the slope : there was a load of stones on top , waiting to turn the shelter into an apple store disguised as a rockery , and when Mrs Wilson saw this she stood for a long time looking at the hump in the ground and the pile of stones . |
| 24 | In the garden of Burleigh Court , situated near the present Ulster Bank , there stood for a long time an old pear tree known as ‘ King William 's pear tree ’ . |
| 25 | I stood for a long time in a telephone box just to keep out of the slicing rain . |
| 26 | There she stood for a long time , gazing out to sea , her heart full of sadness and her eyes full of tears . |
| 27 | There they stood for a long time by a low stone wall , staring hopelessly out at the yellow fields of stubble , where the wheatsheaves were stooked and ready for gathering into the barn . |
| 28 | They stood for a long time in silence , and the others left them alone . |
| 29 | I stood for a long time , staring at the mirror . |
| 30 | When he had gone , she stood for a long time in front of the looking-glass that hung over the fire , her hands pressed to her cheeks , her face quite alive with excitement . |