Example sentences of "stood [prep] [art] few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | I replaced the blanket over his head and stood for a few moments looking at the bodies in their neat little rows . |
2 | Mark stood for a few moments at the corner of Parliament Street and Bridge Street . |
3 | He stood for a few moments thinking , and looking apprehensively from one stallion to the other . |
4 | They stood for a few moments in shy silence , staring from one to another . |
5 | She stood for a few moments catching her breath , then continued through to the kitchen . |
6 | Melissa found its clean , uncluttered lines at once calming and uplifting , and she stood for a few moments just inside the door , absorbing the tranquil atmosphere . |
7 | She put away the car , quietly locked the garage door and stood for a few moments looking out over the valley . |
8 | Morse and Max stood for a few moments silently just outside the front door of the Kemp residence . |
9 | K. Peacock , of Belgrave Terrace , Hurworth Place , Darlington , remembers the whole class stood for a few minutes ' silence when told the news at Queen Elizabeth Grammar School . |
10 | She barely noticed it at all as she stood for a few seconds in front of the mirror and pulled the comb through her hair . |
11 | Climbing out , stood for a few seconds to let his eyes adjust to the pale moonlight , then he stepped through the gap and began to pick his way carefully down the uneven terrain of the slope , towards the crashed car below . |
12 | John stood for a few seconds contemplating the receding lights of the tanker , he dropped the revs on the engine then settled himself . |
13 | The decapitated head spun like a ball in the air , lips still moving ; his trunk stood for a few seconds in its own fountain of hot red gore before crashing on to the blood-stained ice . |
14 | Similarly , the clock on the front of the American Bulletin of Atomic Scientists stood at a few minutes to midnight , but the American government did not heed it . |