Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] standing " in BNC.
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| 1 | Occupied just standing , then shuffling |
| 2 | Caught still standing at the window , Meg 's scattered treasure , her , now lost forever , blown wits . |
| 3 | Egypt is a very humbling place , with its larger-than-life statues and obelisks serenely standing since before the time of Christ , and the mammoth pyramids whose blocks of stone weigh up to forty tons each ; this is a land which inspires constant awe and disbelief . |
| 4 | ‘ I would n't fancy just standing there yelling into the void . ’ |
| 5 | Branson 's views about England were more platitudinous than revolutionary ; England , he would say , is ‘ a great place to live in , but as a great place it should carry on standing totally for democracy and people should have the absolute freedom to say what they think ’ . |
| 6 | On the other hand , their situation is structured , and ( ‘ holism' here standing for the idea that the parts of a whole behave as the whole requires ) we are interested in the social constraints on their actions . |
| 7 | The Tsar presides over an assembly made up predominantly of landowners , seen here standing at a respectful distance , and leading members of the Church 's hierarchy , seated at the front |
| 8 | The little maid whom Elisa had seen earlier standing by the door in the sitting room came into the dining room on both occasions and whispered something into his ear . |
| 9 | Well , I was like the rest , I 'd got to help out standing at the stalls , like . |
| 10 | It used to be for really petty things like not standing up , or shouting out the window , running up the dinner queue and pushing it . |
| 11 | Carol , our King , he works you know always standing up . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'm going to have to give up standing the market , Ma , ’ she announced quietly . |
| 13 | Pleased to hear you can ride bareback standing on your bad leg . |
| 14 | There was no reply , Mait simply standing and staring into the mirrored lens . |
| 15 | One of them reached over the moat to wrench hunks out of the hedge : I jumped backwards when the great muddy wrinkled trunk came swinging over , but Vern did n't , he just went on standing there , staring . |
| 16 | The landlord went on standing there , turned away from me . |
| 17 | He jumped the queue at the ticket counter — his stub realized $I8- but he went on standing there in line , his head babyishly lolling with impatience , before he peeled off into the store-flanked tunnels . |
| 18 | ‘ If you go on standing in the way any longer I 'll take you to court . ’ |
| 19 | If the boat capsizes because it 's overpowered simply scramble into the high side until you end up standing on the daggerboard . |
| 20 | She looks real comfy there and I think about sitting down for a bit and watching telly , but I ai n't got nothing to sit on so I just carry on standing up . |
| 21 | These observations supported long standing speculation that vascular insufficiency could be a pathogenic factor , but suggested that vascular and haemodynamic changes were variable and dependent on the stage and pattern of disease . |
| 22 | ‘ I suddenly felt that I was doing it to a bunch of people that actually understood what Lear 's pain was about , whereas I do n't standing on the stage at the National Theatre ’ : Brian Cox 's concerns about audience reactions and the nature of the dramatic experience are echoed by others . |
| 23 | In six cases the diagnosis was confirmed shortly before the scan ; the remaining 27 had long standing disease ( mean duration 8.4 years , range 1–32 ) . |
| 24 | In patients with the Zollinger-Ellison sydrome , who have long standing hypergastrinaemia originating from the rumour , proliferation of fundic argyrophil cells , mainly fo the ECL type , has also been observed . |
| 25 | In clay and heavy soils the risk is increased that the hole will then hold water for considerable periods , with the plant and stake actually standing in water . |