Example sentences of "stood on a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Charsky stood on a narrow ledge above the Spider Snowfield . |
| 2 | The flat figure stood on a small base as if ready to be moved round a board like a chessman . |
| 3 | The wireless stood on a small table below the pulpit . |
| 4 | He rubbed his hands together in anticipation and pressed the play button on a video that stood on a small table . |
| 5 | The shiny personal computer stood on a leather-topped pedestal desk between two glass-fronted bookcases with cupboards below and scrolled pediments above . |
| 6 | There the rise and swell of incomprehensible Latin seemed to have a grandeur that aroused the spirit of poetry in the Gaels , as if they stood on a rocky shore communing with the waves . |
| 7 | That stood on a dark straight of barren land . |
| 8 | The monastery of St Paul 's stood on a slight rise . |
| 9 | For a few months he stood on a European par with Adler and Liebknecht and tried to take responsibility for Russians interned after the Brest–Litovsk peace . |
| 10 | Although she put them firmly into the category of ‘ workers ’ , rather than ‘ idlers ’ , and therefore to be praised , they were not quite on a par with the Welsh factory workers , or designers ; nonetheless they stood on a higher plane than accountants , clerks or corporate planners . |
| 11 | A plastic tumbler containing toothbrush and paste stood on a deeper shelf behind two thin metal rails designed to prevent things falling off . |
| 12 | Later , the prince and princess stood on a windswept hillside overlooking the border area with communist North Korea , as war veteran Sam Mercer described a battle fought there between Chinese troops and members of the Gloucestershire Regiment in April 1951 . |
| 13 | It stood on a mossy hill , and was environed by an expanse of peat soil and many stacks of the dark-coloured fuel ; and in reaching it , many most forbidding sloughs had to be rounded and jumped over . |
| 14 | I could hear the sound of rent cloth in my head , but I stood on a wooden chair while Lili pinned the seams closer , standing quietly like a broken horse to be saddled and bridled . |
| 15 | As instructed , the building was largely three-storey , but it stood on a high basement and was dominated by a spiky ventilation tower centrally placed over the War Department . |
| 16 | The other two men were hit by the two gunmen as they stood on a nearby footpath at the spot where black taxis operate up and down Belfast 's Falls Road . |
| 17 | The party stood on a detailed manifesto which addressed local issues but stressed that the NILP had ‘ new ideas free from the old sectarian catch cries ’ . |
| 18 | In his dream , Athelstan stood on a darkened ship . |
| 19 | He usually stood on a little platform raised high enough to enable him to see over and past the cabins when the boat was moving . |
| 20 | The others got out of the rope , and Slingsby , climbing up as far as possible , stood on a little step just below , with his hands on the platform . |