Example sentences of "stood [coord] [vb past] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite its implications , the great argument was not over the Political Community , but over the EDC , for the former stood or fell with the ratification of the latter . |
| 2 | The articulation of individual praxis with History stood or fell with the concept of history as totalization without a totalizer . |
| 3 | In woodland we stood and listened to the vociferous dawn chorus . |
| 4 | They walked in the beautiful gardens of the Generalife and seemed to have the place almost to themselves , and Maggie turned to Felipe as they stood and listened to the running water . |
| 5 | Once , at Milan airport , we were herded to the gate and corralled in an area almost big enough for half of us , then shifted to a bus with six seats and standing room for forty , in which the one hundred and twenty of us stood and waited for the idiot who always arrives twenty minutes late despite having been called ten times and being the subject of an Interpol missing persons search . |
| 6 | As soon as the water was waist high , she stood and walked to the side near to the female showers . |
| 7 | Shelley stood and walked to the door . |
| 8 | He stood and made for the other room . |
| 9 | ‘ I have no intention of meeting her , ’ Jenna began , but he too stood and looked towards the long windows as a car came speedily to the house . |
| 10 | When a few minutes later , amid the oohs and aahs from the three women , she stood and looked at the person staring back at her from the long mirror , she could n't believe it was herself . |
| 11 | Beuno stood and looked at the blaze he had made . |
| 12 | He stood and looked at the piano . |
| 13 | And then ( as he stood and stared through the window at the magazine ) Boy imagined sleeping with these men , actually sleeping , sharing a bed with them for the night . |
| 14 | The men stood and stared at the abandoned Glory for what seemed like hours . |
| 15 | Ellen , usually so quick with a scornful reply , just stood and stared at the elegant stranger who stopped one pace away from her , took her hand , then bowed above her fingers . |
| 16 | Ted stood and stared at the apparition in amazement , unable to believe the sight of his old friend before his eyes . |
| 17 | He had completed another revolution of the prescribed path , and the man still stood and stared at the fences , and his shoulders were not hunched as if the cold no longer concerned him . |
| 18 | It was too late to save the rick , so for a few minutes he stood and stared at the flames . |
| 19 | Carter dealt out the oxygen cylinders while Ralph stood and stared at the smoke billowing out of the third floor of McKay 's department store . |
| 20 | Rangers lost the ball from the kick-off , and stood and stared as the Russians cut through their defence . |
| 21 | We stood and went into the music-room . |
| 22 | As I stood and gazed at the now empty slit trenches , I could n't help a sinking feeling in my stomach as I pictured in my mind those who had occupied the trenches in this orchard , those who had been killed or seriously wounded . |
| 23 | There were three or four cinemas round here — I stood and gazed at the pictures outside and thought , ‘ Space , cowboys and sex . |
| 24 | He stood and moved to the door . |
| 25 | Helen stood and watched through the binoculars . |
| 26 | He stood and turned towards the front of the house . |
| 27 | She stood and turned to the door . |