Example sentences of "standing in the same [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At a greater distance from the throne are the inferior nobles , also standing in the same posture of profound reverence . |
| 2 | Arafat met frequently with Saddam Hussein in Baghdad in the run-up to the expiry of the Jan. 15 deadline , and reaffirmed on Jan. 14 that " Palestine and Iraq are standing in the same trench to regain Arab rights " . |
| 3 | My father ignored it , too , standing in the same position as before , head cocked . |
| 4 | They were separate , there was space between them , but , like flowers in a vase , they were all standing in the same water . |
| 5 | The poor Christian settlers in the mountains view the Buid as standing in the same relationship to them as they stand to their own patrons . |
| 6 | In linguistics , a defined class of written marks or letters of the alphabet , standing in the same relationship to a grapheme as a phone does to a segmental phoneme . |
| 7 | While standing in the same street , joy would notice the creative window displays and smiling faces , hear the laughter and smell the roasting chestnuts on the street corner ; while Gloom would see the traffic , litter and inflated prices , hear the honking horns and smell the exhaust fumes . |
| 8 | By the time the rope went tight I had been standing in the same spot for nearly an hour and a half . |
| 9 | Leon always opened his door after that and , standing in the same spot where I could see him , he would play . |
| 10 | Claudia raced for the towel ; he was still standing in the same place and still looking helpless as she dealt briskly with the spill . |
| 11 | There is magnetism in romantic gestures that make you forget you 've been standing in the same place for half the day , that there is not a child in the house washed and you never got flowers from your 's truly . |
| 12 | This time I made sure my master went first and , whilst he ran down the stairs , I scampered like a rabbit to the top of the tower , forcing back the trap door , standing in the same place that poor Falconer had . |