Example sentences of "stood [prep] the [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 | By May , New Guinea alone stood between the victorious Japanese and Australia . |
| 3 | A rectangular conference table and four chairs , of a type provided for senior public servants , stood between the tall windows . |
| 4 | Dr Clarke , a retired headmaster who once stood as the Liberal candidate for Edinburgh Pentlands , is a prominent member of the far right . |
| 5 | He stood as the Liberal Party candidate in Edinburgh in the 1966 and 1970 elections and joined the BNP two years ago . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I stood as the Green Party candidate in May 1988 and 1989 . |
| 9 | Creed had requisitioned an open car , and he stood for the entire procession , as a mark of his own personal respect for the deceased . |
| 10 | In my case , the first and most important candle stood for the dark forest . |
| 11 | Her fragmentation into little states , split between Protestantism and Catholicism , has been exacerbated by a split between those who wanted Western or Eastern orientation : the West , represented by the rationalism and domination of France , the liberalism and mercantilism of England , or the modernism of the United States , stood for the individual standing in a contractual relationship to society , nation-statehood and world political power ; while the East , represented by Russia and Asia beyond implied culture , tradition , anti-modernism , barbarity , community and political romanticism . |
| 12 | ( This is how the story is recorded in Luke 13:6–9 , where the fig tree stood for the self-righteous people , such as the Pharisees , who made a great show of their religion but produced few results . |
| 13 | As the credits rolled my mother and father , like most filmgoers of that generation , stood for the National Anthem . |
| 14 | In 1964 he stood for the pretty safe ( at the time ) Conservative seat of Glasgow Pollok . |
| 15 | But our to avoid that situation I left and went to work with which kept me in the Edinburgh branch and within three or four weeks I stood for the local organizer and had not been successful . |
| 16 | Base rate was on Sept. 22 further reduced to 9 per cent ( its lowest level since mid-1988 and the first time since 1981 that it stood below the German Lombard rate ) . |
| 17 | The latter formerly stood opposite the main entrance to the mill . |
| 18 | In the village shop , Mrs Hollidaye introduced Dot to the man in a brown overall who stood behind the wooden counter . |
| 19 | The ‘ new ’ building was erected in 1229 to replace the Broletto Vecchio , the old Broletto , which stood near the present Piazzetta Reale . |
| 20 | I looked around ; Clinton , Dacourt and others now stood near the main steps of the chateau , Throgmorton with them . |
| 21 | A young lady stood near the very centre of the circle , still on the arm of a much older gentleman whose attentive pose betokened a parental or protective association with his eager , fashionable young companion , who behaved as if she were very conscious of being watched and admired . |
| 22 | However , she realised the wisdom of his words , but hunger and the sound of the lunch bell caused her to discard all thoughts of a long soak , and instead of running a bath she stood beneath the soothing waters of a hot shower . |
| 23 | What told most against Pétain , however , was that while Joffre , Foch and de Castelnau all swam vigorously with the current , he alone stood against the prevailing tide of the de Grandmaison movement . |
| 24 | He stood against the rust-streaked wall of the refrigerator factory , his thin tail clamped against the November drizzle , lower lip dangling . |
| 25 | George Lansbury , speaking at Shoreditch Town Hall in January 1924 , reminded the monarch that ‘ Some centuries ago a King stood against the common people and he lost his head . ’ |
| 26 | As I headed towards shelter , I glanced south , where the broad shoulders of a mountain — its name is Mont Salève — stood against the troubled sky . |
| 27 | He was wounded at the siege of Leith in 1560 and nine years later he stood against the northern rising , subsequently advising on the defence of the northern border . |
| 28 | Three Mutawas had been told of the indignation from the foreign community and they stood with the armed guards at the entry of the delivery theatre to ensure that no sympathetic foreigner assisted the girl to escape . |
| 29 | You knew where you stood with the Cold War . |
| 30 | He stood with the conical helmet cradled clumsily under his arm . |