Example sentences of "stood [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | ( His record stood only until the 1988–9 season , when Martin Pipe trained the winners of 208 races , but at a lower strike rate of 37 per cent . ) |
| 2 | The hon. Gentleman 's contribution stood better in the traditional approach of the House in the past two decades to issues relating to consumer affairs . |
| 3 | They stood together for a few moments , her head sunk in his mighty chest , his head finally bowed as he looked down on her . |
| 4 | A few days before Monica died , they stood together by the open window , looking towards the sunset . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Benny stood patiently in the big bathroom while the back of her neck was washed . |
| 7 | Twenty minutes later we stood outside on the spongy pavement . |
| 8 | A uniformed man on either side of him , Joe walked past the vehicle to a steel-shuttered garage door which stood just beyond the public entrance . |
| 9 | A stocky man , dressed in rough denim with a whistle round his neck to warn off the unthinking , stood just beyond the ruined walls of the Temple of the Sun ; on the periphery of everyone 's intense looking . |
| 10 | They stood just outside the front door . |
| 11 | The cell block stood just off the L-shaped charge room , a corridor almost completely without daylight . |
| 12 | He stood more in the classical Christian tradition , which insisted that self-knowledge and knowledge of God are intimately connected , but that they are not at all the same thing . |
| 13 | She held up her hand to him to say , " Wait while I see if it 's safe , " and darted back through the kitchen and into the house , listening in the big hall where suits of dull metal armour stood mutely by the heavy oak doors . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Everyone stood aside for the barrel-like KGB colonel in full uniform and his scruffy civilian companion . |
| 16 | In some cases even those more conservative chapels which stood aside from the changing fashions made notable contributions to their own town 's architecture . |
| 17 | She stood aside from the Austro-Prussian War and watched while Prussia completed her preparation for pan-German hegemony . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Pollen entered Lincoln 's Inn in 1893 , and in 1895 stood unsuccessfully as a Liberal for Walthamstow . |
| 20 | In 1906 Jane stood unsuccessfully as an independent ‘ navy before party ’ parliamentary candidate for Portsmouth . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | But we always stood roughly in the same place and we knew the forty or fifty people around us 'cos they were always there . |
| 23 | The house was nicely furnished , stood well off the main road , and was hidden by surrounding trees . |
| 24 | An earlier farm stood here beside the Norman church until the new owner of Oakly built a smart new farm around a small Tudor building . |
| 25 | The two men stood silently in the huge kitchen . |
| 26 | He stood almost on the same spot as before , and watched the lighted windows of a basement flat across the way . |
| 27 | But as they stood there with the white jasmine making an aura of perfume around their heads , something in the mood of the evening seemed to change . |
| 28 | He stood there with the filthy little bits of orange sauce on his so-clean clothes and looking sheepish I do n't want any lunch , I snapped at him . |
| 29 | Lee stood there on the other side of the branch , holding Caspar with the lead made with his Dad 's wire . |
| 30 | They stood there on the high stone balcony , the seven great lords of Chung Kuo , the sky a perfect blue overhead , the early morning sunlight glistening from the imperial yellow of their silks . |