Example sentences of "stood a [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now that he 'd met Cora-Beth , he was in no doubt that Harry stood a far greater chance of happiness with her . |
| 2 | In a rocking chair stood a brilliantly coloured cockerel and his pure white wife . |
| 3 | Those women who were not married by their late twenties stood a very real chance of never marrying . |
| 4 | But we told him he stood a very real chance of not surviving if he went back on stage againy |
| 5 | It did seem , however , that Donna Hazell , the girl with leukaemia , stood a very good chance of being cured if she had a bone-marrow transplant . |
| 6 | ‘ Once upon a time , ’ Patsy began , ‘ in an old town , in an old street , there stood a very old 'ouse . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Once upon a time , ’ her brother began again , ‘ in an old town , in an old street , there stood a very old 'ouse , such a grand 'ouse , the sort of 'ouse you do not find nowadays … ’ |