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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Pollen entered Lincoln 's Inn in 1893 , and in 1895 stood unsuccessfully as a Liberal for Walthamstow . |
| 5 | In 1906 Jane stood unsuccessfully as an independent ‘ navy before party ’ parliamentary candidate for Portsmouth . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | She stood there for a long time , thinking the whole thing out . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I just stood there like a punch-drunk boxer , taking the punishment she was handing out . |
| 10 | I stood there like a half-opened penknife , splattering the forecourt noisily . |
| 11 | The cook stood there like a shrivelled bootlace , tight-lipped , implacable , disapproving . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | They stood there in a frightened cluster . |
| 14 | She stood there in a full , swirling coat of silver-grey silk . |
| 15 | The prince stood quietly as an old friend and electrician colleague of Mr Walesa , Stanislaw Bury , laid flowers at the foot of the three towering steel crosses which mark the site of the massacre . |
| 16 | Rodrigo now stood solidly as a unique power in the east . |