Example sentences of "standing [adv] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The mare was indicating that she did , standing companionably in the darkening stable , lipping at his anorak sleeve . |
| 2 | Wynne-Thomas pointed towards two men standing together on the next pitch . |
| 3 | They were standing together at the very edge of the platform on which the morning room was constructed . |
| 4 | Manager Dick Graham immediately went back to his former club , West Bromwich Albion , and purchased Welsh International , Tony Millington to take over but , by the end of the year it was Jackson who was earning praise in the Palace goal after standing in for the injured Welshman and making his home debut against Cardiff on 28 November 1964 , and by the end of the season ‘ Jacko ’ , as he became popularly called , was in undisputed possession |
| 5 | Standing in for the injured Ian Smith , wicketkeeper Adam Parore took five catches in England 's first innings . |
| 6 | On 7 June an emergency meeting of the NSFU Executive was held at which Father Charles Hopkins , standing in for the absent Havelock Wilson , pointed out the disastrous financial effects which participation in such a stoppage might have on the union and the peril in which it might stand in respect of its hard won provincial settlements . |
| 7 | Condensation might entail the one kind of subject and/or manifestation standing in for the whole domain of evil , incurring responsibility for the whole in the process of being made to signify it . |
| 8 | In Roman art or in an 18th century Temple of Worthies ( such as the one at Stowe ) the rules of rhetoric might be invoked to argue that the bust functions as synecdoche , the head standing in for the whole physical and active domain of the body . |
| 9 | increase in value added tax — but he is standing down at the general election . |
| 10 | Standing thoughtfully in the tiny kitchen , she suddenly turned and went out again . |
| 11 | The Secretary of State pointed out in his last answer that on 21 February he expressed sympathy with some of the supporters of the regiments , and he said that he would have been standing outside under the same banners . |
| 12 | Hang on a minute — there 's another me in the dream … standing outside in the star-studded night . |
| 13 | Masked by the apparently careless tumble of examples ( ‘ etc. , etc. ’ ) is a calculated insistence on the sore spot , on what Shatov in the notebooks calls social unsteadiness , a small but virulent secular profanity standing over against the noble , perhaps the noblest sequence in The Possessed , where Marie Shatov returns to her husband to give birth to another man 's child . |
| 14 | She remembered her mother , standing squarely at the front door , fending off supplicants from the village school Parent-Teacher Association , the Darby and Joan Club , the summer Fete ; Greystones never had jumble . |
| 15 | Tsu Ma had pushed for forward through the water until he was standing just below the deep lip of the bank . |
| 16 | A large group of people was standing just beyond the wrought-iron gate . |
| 17 | He was standing just inside the front door and was thus hidden from me . |
| 18 | In the first row Joseph spotted Tran Van Hieu 's father standing just behind the two red-robed royal princes who were to lead the annual act of homage . |
| 19 | The other had turned and was waiting for the Genoese , standing off on the landward side with her crossbowmen and hackbutters lining her port rail , fore and aft . |
| 20 | Duvall untensed , standing aside as the three other members of the forensic team blundered out into the corridor . |
| 21 | She found the three others standing disconsolately between the jagged stones . |
| 22 | The interviewer 's questions may be edited out so that all we see is the individual talking although the interviewer was in fact standing slightly to the left or right of the camera . |
| 23 | Walking about at night in the streets of Calcutta and of necessity stepping over emaciated bodies too lethargic to move , or visiting refugee shacks in beautiful Hong Kong , or standing helplessly in the filthy slums of Kampala , always the same agony and anger assailed me as it did on that cold morning in Kiel . |
| 24 | " For people who take a sober view of life , " he said , " a person is liberal who is prepared not to take thought for his personal interests but to expend all his energy on standing up for the juridical independence of every citizen and the freedom of every action which does not undermine the well-being and the tranquillity of society " . |
| 25 | Though not normally noted for their philanthropy , lawyers say they are standing up for the common man and woman by condemning the Scottish Office plans to change civil legal aid and to a lesser extent legal advice and assistance . |
| 26 | We had a small walled garden and oblong of grass and , though Father kept a long side bed gay with red geraniums , white marguerites and blue lobelia , capable of standing up to the odd cricket ball and the games we children were able to play in the few remaining square yards behind beggared description but we had the whole Heath beyond . |
| 27 | Here now is an Arab leader who has shown himself to be capable not only of standing up to the mightiest military force in the world , but also of retaliating . |
| 28 | As the leavening of hardened veterans became sparser and sparser , so the pathetic eighteen-year-olds fresh from the parade grounds in the Fatherland showed themselves less and less capable of standing up to the remorseless demands of the Verdun fighting . |
| 29 | She standing up against the racial stereotype with purple hair . |
| 30 | At half past midnight , Springfield drew the council of war to a close by pushing back his chair and standing up behind the big desk , where he had been sitting flanked by Grant and Deputy Fenton . |