Example sentences of "stood [adv] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Martha stood patiently for a long time while her mother tried one dress after another on her , hoping to find a colour that made her skin seem paler and a cut that disguised her skeletal proportions . |
| 2 | Her maids stood off at a slight distance , amongst the trees , talking quietly amongst themselves and pretending not to watch her , but she knew they were as inquisitive as she . |
| 3 | At the corner of Bowyers Row they stood aside as a huge , wooden wagon rolled by , pulled by four horses , their manes hogged , eyes blinkered and nostrils flaring at the corrupting smell of death . |
| 4 | He stood up with a muttered curse of impatience , and when the lightning flashed a little while later she caught a glimpse of his hunched back . |
| 5 | Those returning Marines crashed their arms across their spreadeagle-painted chest plastrons , saluting Lord Pugh who stood up on a high balcony of traceried wrought tungsten . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm a Bank Assistant ’ , was the first thing she said when she stood up at a recent IBOA meeting . |
| 7 | Meryl finished her own meal and stood up in a leisurely fashion . |
| 8 | ‘ Leather 's a bit stiff at first , ’ said Tom as Willie stood up in a solid pair of brown ankle-boots . |
| 9 | He stood unsuccessfully as a Liberal Unionist candidate for Parliament in the 1885 and 1886 elections in north Leeds and the Pudsey division of Yorkshire . |
| 10 | Pollen entered Lincoln 's Inn in 1893 , and in 1895 stood unsuccessfully as a Liberal for Walthamstow . |
| 11 | In 1906 Jane stood unsuccessfully as an independent ‘ navy before party ’ parliamentary candidate for Portsmouth . |
| 12 | She also pursued a political career , acted for a time as secretary to ( Viscountess ) Nancy Astor [ q.v. ] , and stood unsuccessfully as an Independent parliamentary candidate for Brentford and Chiswick in 1918 , 1922 , and 1923 . |
| 13 | In a rather confused , uncertain , period Reagan stood out as an upbeat , optimistic candidate who , despite his failings , had an easily understood programme and a clear sense of the direction in which he would take his country , if given the opportunity . |
| 14 | I believe at Glastonbury he would have blended well with the bill : at Finsbury Park he stood out like a sore thumb . |
| 15 | The absence of South Africa from both the 1987 and this year 's tournaments stood out like a sore thumb . |
| 16 | Even to the clear hearing of childhood Dada 's language was difficult — this time the word " bitch , a forbidden word , stood out like a sore thumb . |
| 17 | He stood out like a sore thumb for Sheff Utd , I think I even remember him from his Palace days . |
| 18 | When they played the song at London 's Borderline recently , it stood out like a radioactive rabbit on a nudist beach , primarily because most of the remainder of the set collapsed like a drunk deck of cards . |
| 19 | The sky was clearer than it had been for a week , and massive , but hardly elegant , Storskarfjell stood out like a white tent . |
| 20 | I am a standard , no-frills Earthling , but Goodney , in his white suit , suntan and sliding blond hair , stood out like a pink elephant among the sin-sick funeral directors lurking and cruising against the blood-coloured walls . |
| 21 | Even more crucially , if the nuclear industry was right about the lack of danger to health from its routine operations , then one piece of evidence stood out like an unexplained sore thumb . |
| 22 | He was just quietly walking into the wall , while the rest of us stood around in an awkward half-circle . |
| 23 | She stood there for a long time , thinking the whole thing out . |
| 24 | She stood there like a dark messiah with some unseen flock before her , and Pete could n't help but begin to assemble shapes out of the grainy darkness and to give them solidity and movement . |
| 25 | I just stood there like a punch-drunk boxer , taking the punishment she was handing out . |
| 26 | I stood there like a half-opened penknife , splattering the forecourt noisily . |
| 27 | The cook stood there like a shrivelled bootlace , tight-lipped , implacable , disapproving . |
| 28 | Constance stood there in a simple white dress , and in the twilight she looked like a slim young girl holding out welcoming arms to her guest . |
| 29 | They stood there in a frightened cluster . |
| 30 | She stood there in a full , swirling coat of silver-grey silk . |