Example sentences of "[adv] stood on " in BNC.
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| 1 | IT MAY SEEM paradoxical to describe Mrs Curdle 's gipsy caravan first , for it only stood on the green for a day or two at the end of April and beginning of May each year . |
| 2 | They just stood on the doorstep and said : ‘ Do n't you want to see your mother ? ’ |
| 3 | But they had all their equipment with them and they just stood on the deck and underneath below deck were the people who rowed the boats over . |
| 4 | I just stood on three bits when I come in . |
| 5 | I ca n't remember what that bit was , I think he just stood on top |
| 6 | I put one foot on his shoulder and as I climbed up , making room for him , he raised himself and finally stood on the platform , helping me as far as possible . |
| 7 | Taking it out , she ripped it into tiny pieces then tossed the fragments into the bucket that still stood on the dresser like some awful avant-garde ornament . |
| 8 | Athletic and committed , Joanne , who once stood on the fringes of junior county badminton , now has a goal to realise . |
| 9 | A little museum in Broadbank helps to tell the history of the town and right at the door is placed the Blue-stone : an enormous boulder which once stood on a street corner in the town and is thought to have been brought here by the Scandinavian ice flow . |
| 10 | This is the Drowned Forest , which once stood on the land , before the sea came in over it . |
| 11 | Almost any small feature in a building or even a field wall may say something of the structures that once stood on such sites . |
| 12 | It fell on the floor and rolled towards Uncle Mick 's feet — and he promptly stood on it with all his forty-year police authority and his size ten boots . |
| 13 | He usually stood on a little platform raised high enough to enable him to see over and past the cabins when the boat was moving . |
| 14 | Play For Keeps was an ex-racehorse , who always stood on her hind legs every time her rider asked her to halt . |
| 15 | A bottle of this smelly purple mixture always stood on the shelf above the sink in the bathroom alongside all the toothbrushes , and a very vigorous scalp massage with OIL OF VIOLETS took place daily after shaving was completed . |
| 16 | The someone , who was , of course , Dr Neil , struck a Swan Vesta to light the oil-lamp which always stood on a side-table where he usually kept the book which he was currently reading . |
| 17 | Ever stood on a tee , met a ‘ beginner ’ who out-drove you , out-putted you , out-shone you and finally outraged you when you realised the pound was lost … we had Pat McKenna , Ulster Bank , Athlone who won the Beginner 's prize . |
| 18 | But Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac ( 1778–1850 ) clearly stood on the side of the theorists . |
| 19 | ( BH ) RIGHT : Churchend Mill formerly stood on a site in use since at least the 14th century . |
| 20 | The same gift — of turning thrice when the cock crows — was said to have been bestowed on a rock in Looe harbour which formerly stood on another , elevated rock nearby . |
| 21 | The ancient and beautiful church of All Saints is the oldest building in the village , newly built in 1318 , although an unendowed building probably stood on the same site from 1086 when the Domesday Book was compiled . |
| 22 | A farmhouse probably stood on this site at the time of the Great Plague . |
| 23 | Once Marion nearly stood on the doll baby , set carefully in a soft , sheltered hollow . |
| 24 | I nearly stood on a grouse once , when we were walking up I was n't walking with you , it was when we were with the Footpath Society . |
| 25 | Their dedications are no less assertive ; but like Kypselos , whose name originally stood on the Corinthian treasury at Delphi ( Plut . |
| 26 | Every single operetta really stood on the lead performances , on his lead performances . |
| 27 | Ebley reputedly stood on the site of much earlier corn and fulling mills . |
| 28 | The filter was constructed as shown in the diagram and then stood on the wooden crosspieces on top of the vat . |
| 29 | What its function was and what relationship it bore to the building-complex which then stood on the site of the later temple has yet to be established . |
| 30 | She found herself swept off the bed and across to the long sash window , then stood on her feet with Roman 's warmth supporting her from behind , his arms wrapped around her . |