Example sentences of "stood on [art] [adj] [noun] " 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 . |
| 21 | The reason for his blurred face and voice stood on an occasional table before him — a whisky bottle and a shot glass . |
| 22 | Poacher Marino Malerba , 35 , shot a stag dead as it stood on an overhanging rock in Trento , Italy . |
| 23 | After an hour on the flat we stood on an old snow patch at the foot of the Plaret cascades and looked straight up a perfect glacier valley to the hut , and beyond the Promontoire hut , glinting in the afternoon light , high on a southerly arm of La Meije . |
| 24 | We stood on the concrete set of the main concourse while extras thronged about . |
| 25 | They stood on the concrete steps reviewing the dismal scene as if it were a personal insult . |
| 26 | They stood on the warm asphalt . |
| 27 | Cecilia went down the steps at West Hampstead station and stood on the lefthand platform waiting for the train to come down from Kilburn . |
| 28 | Allen stood on the far side , watchful with his bow in his hand . |
| 29 | The man refused to come clear ; he stood on the far side of the horse , soothing the animal and examining the fresh wound on its neck . |
| 30 | As she stood on the crimson carpet , hesitating , the chandeliers suddenly flashed on , dispelling the gloom . |