Example sentences of "standing [adj] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Now he is standing right at the door and knocking to get in . |
| 2 | Then she took up a position standing right at the back . |
| 3 | It is a white three-storey tower mill standing right on the sea front opposite St John 's Church . |
| 4 | Mr Coleby was standing right on the step . |
| 5 | Unfortunately he was standing right beside the door with the new aerial mounted on it and his voice was within a gnat 's whisker of being raised a few octaves . |
| 6 | Most casualties ( 46% ) recorded involved people who were at the time of the incident standing in buses , but it is not always clear from the recorded data whether the passengers were standing due to the vehicle 's seating capacity being fully utilised or were on their feet moving towards a seat or the bus exit . |
| 7 | John was standing rooted to the spot , his expression stony . |
| 8 | She closed her eyes and tried to picture herself , but three days ago , in her mother 's sitting-room , making up the fire , carrying trays , standing apprehensive in the doorway dreading a fresh outburst against her selfishness in going away . |
| 9 | Having been burned in 1933 and nearly destroyed in 1945 , it became a symbol of Democracy in a divided city , standing empty beside the Wall and prevented , by the threat of Soviet veto , from serving any purpose . |
| 10 | Standing empty in the mansion , oh . |
| 11 | But Professor Avenarius was late , and I kept watching the woman ; she was alone at the pool , standing waist-deep in the water , and she kept looking up at the young lifeguard in sweatpants who was teaching her to swim . |
| 12 | NOTE Urine that has been standing some of the night is not a true specimen for testing . |
| 13 | The track took a right hand curve and for the first time he saw the bridge standing high above the track . |
| 14 | Standing high on the spur of Mount Subasio , it seems to provoke a feeling of peace , admiration and sheer joy . |
| 15 | Standing high in the nave is the pulpit attributed to Grinling Gibbons . |
| 16 | The possibility of achieving the semblance of virtue by working at standing high in the teacher 's estimation , seems to us a perfect nursery for the acquisition of the criminal or exploitative view of the social world . |
| 17 | Ahead of us we could see our ridge , standing clear of the cloud , brushed purple in the strange early light . |
| 18 | On the last evening of my visit to you I was standing half-hidden in the bushes , watching the sun go down . |
| 19 | He saw Isambard standing impassive beside the flame , de Guichet at his shoulder . |
| 20 | Or rather , as she then , standing tense in the emptiness felt it , she had become something exceedingly small , smaller than the jar of marmalade and more mobile , as small as a mouse , or as an electric spark , which was impelled to run very fast , invisibly fast , round and round the house , altering it in some way which was now imperative . |
| 21 | Darlington could hardly have made a worse start , goalkeeper Mark Prudhoe and his fellow defenders standing frozen to the spot as Preece smartly turned and shot into the top left corner in the ninth minute . |
| 22 | Instead , a now very fat Halima would be found at all times of day , demanding oats , by standing deep in the fence with wires right up to her armpits ! |
| 23 | He had n't spotted them standing deep in the shadows . |
| 24 | It is standing firm with the United States , in its clipped and undemonstrative sort of way . |
| 25 | He had no previous conception of all the undulations and , particularly , the steepness of the 18th fairway which , as Curtis Strange has described it , is not dissimilar to standing halfway up the stairs with one foot on one step and the other on the next . |
| 26 | Camp have n't been standing still on the walking axe front , with three new models designed ; Jannu , Nuptse and Hielo . |
| 27 | As we were standing still at the frontier — you know , nonchalant , nervous , not showing it — the compartment door opens and who should walk in ? |
| 28 | He stepped past an old lady , standing still in the middle of the pavement , seemingly looking across the road at a man in elbow-crutches waiting to cross the street . |
| 29 | It was like a ‘ ghost ship ’ — he used those words — the three masts standing black against the white of the low , snow-mantled line of the shore opposite and that enormously long bowsprit jutting out from the wooden hull of the ship ‘ like a lance ’ . |
| 30 | The man was standing undecided in the middle of the road like a rabbit caught in headlights at night . |