Example sentences of "stood [adv prt] in [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lawler moved away from the wall and immediately stubbed his toe against a heavy cast-iron ornament that had been placed out of the way while the small oval table it normally stood on in the lobby was being repaired . |
| 2 | ‘ That 's it , stood over in the corner . ’ |
| 3 | The two submarines which had lain alongside Omega at the start of her watch now stood off in the loch , still as two sentries , awaiting Taureg 's arrival , and she wondered how any man could volunteer to serve in such a craft ; how he could live in quarters so cramped , with no privacy at all . |
| 4 | Swinging the horse 's head to face the massed coolies again , Duclos drew a long solid wood truncheon from a leather saddle scabbard and stood up in the stirrups . |
| 5 | Coffin stood up in the launch facing them . |
| 6 | As Richard stood up in the boat , he could be seen to hesitate , not about what he wanted to do , but about procedures . |
| 7 | She stood up in the boat . |
| 8 | We cheered three Egyptians who stood up in the body of the hall and cried , ‘ We want Nasser ’ . |
| 9 | Most attention concentrated on the last sentence of my statement which I had inserted just before I stood up in the House of Commons : |
| 10 | The second Lord Redesdale once stood up in the House of Lords to argue that ‘ denial of the hereditary principle is a direct blow at the Crown . |
| 11 | One night a man stood up in the stalls , swaying slightly , and said with a slight Scandinavian accent : ‘ Hellooo . |
| 12 | Detective Van Heflin stood up in the car , hat clamped to his head , firing his tommy gun from the hip . |
| 13 | ‘ His underlying motive is that he wants to change the world , not so he can manage it , but so that he can make it a different place , ’ explains Charles Handy , who picked Gould out from a handful of students at the London Business School ‘ because he stood out in a group of people as by far the most interesting , and that was because he was determined to have control over his life ’ . |
| 14 | Yanto was one of those men who stood out in a crowd . |
| 15 | We stood out in the churchyard , wrapped in shawls listening to the hymns and hearing the organ peeling out . |
| 16 | Above us , great masses of cumulus clouds stood out in the sky like old-fashioned sculptures . |
| 17 | Neither Andy Forshaw nor Martin Langston stood out in the HDM event , so Clark , for so long on the fringe of national selection , could get his chance for England in the Buttermen Indoor tournament at Crystal Palace on December 29-30 . |
| 18 | It was Rodrigo 's actions that now stood out in the notice of the people : it was El Cid 's name they called in the streets . |
| 19 | To do this processing they stood out in the open , a lot of them gyping or gutting the herring . |
| 20 | He stood back in the street , the rain stinging his eyes , wetting him to the skin , getting in his mouth and eyes ; warm rain , huge hard drops , slicking and sticking the clothes to his body ; erotic , making his heart beat faster in a sudden , squally sexual fantasy ; she would invite him in … no , better yet , she would turn up in the street , having been out , also wet to the skin , she would look at him … they would go in … |
| 21 | We stood back in the shadows hypnotized by the flames and a family group circled round them . |
| 22 | The embarrassed nomes stood around in a circle . |
| 23 | They climbed up to the top floor and stood around in the corridor while Sally went in to fetch him out . |
| 24 | They stood round in a ring long after she 'd come to rest , after her legs had stopped wagging , after her fingers had stopped tugging . |