Example sentences of "[adv] stood at " in BNC.
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| 1 | American banks ' loans totalled $157 billion in 1992 , of which one-fifth were not being serviced ; British banks ' lending to property companies alone stood at £37 billion in March 1993 . |
| 2 | In other circumstances she would have been more than willing to engage in this conversation herself , for it was one she had frequently enjoyed ; she liked Otto , she had always mildly fancied that he liked her , she was amused by the offhand continental gallantries with which he interspersed , absent-mindedly , the rigour of his argument ; but tonight she was tired , her eyes were closing , she had had four hours of party already , had not enjoyed the Hargreaves drama , had not enjoyed her talks with Ivan Warner and Teddy Lazenby , had been polite enough for long enough , and wanted to go home ; so stood at Brian 's elbow , dully , a reproachful wife , slightly annoyed that neither of them took much notice of her , as Otto invoked the name of Max Weber , a name which meant nothing to her at all , a name which excluded her , exhausted her , and provoked her into prodding , yet again , but this time successfully , Brian 's arm , and murmuring of baby-sitter Sharon , who was only sixteen . |
| 3 | Lucy Downes was in , and soon stood at the door : an attractive , slim , fair-haired woman in her early thirties , dressed in a summerish cotton suit of pale green , with a light-beige mackintosh over her left arm . |
| 4 | A few people ran round to see how she was and he just stood at the window watching with a shotgun . ’ |
| 5 | A few people ran round to see how she was and he just stood at the window watching with a shotgun . ’ |
| 6 | As soon as he got out and about he was going round the house looking for you and then he just stood at the bottom of the stairs and banged until I took him upstairs and he could have a look round up there and then he realized you were n't there |
| 7 | In pre-Victorian times Camberwell was a middle-class suburb covering the 4,450 acres of the ancient parish of St Giles , which lay about 12 miles south of London Bridge ; its population in 1841 already stood at 39,868 . |
| 8 | For example , the Treasury 9¾ per cent stock 2002 instanced above stood at a price of £103 ( £103.09375 ) at the close of business on Friday 28 February , 1992 when the running yield could be derived as follows : |
| 9 | Although stocks have fallen from their earlier high of 32 million tonnes due to an upsurge in the steel industry , at the end of June 1984 stocks still stood at 18 million tonnes . |
| 10 | Only twenty-seven new members had been enrolled since the Leeds Congress , and the total membership still stood at less than one hundred . |
| 11 | Expressed as crude annual rates per thousand , they fell from 23 in 1861–65 to 12 in 1931–35 , but have since shown no further improvement due to the ageing of the population , and still stood at 11.4 in 1988 . |
| 12 | Habib Olahi , a stocky man , still stood at attention , his eyes fixed on the rich carpet . |
| 13 | At the end of 90 minutes the score still stood at 1–1 and the game went into extra time . |
| 14 | Intervention by monetary authorities of the G-7 countries to support the yen following turbulence in Japanese equity markets helped the yen recover slightly , but at the end of May , the Japanese currency still stood at 6 per cent below the level at the time of the Louvre Accord in February 1987 [ see p. 35609 ] . |
| 15 | On Jan. 29 oil prices still stood at about $20 a barrel , compared with OPEC 's target price of $21 [ see p. 37930 ] . |
| 16 | The train still stood at the platform ; and a group of Post Office workers were lobbing a stack of bulging mail-bags into the guard 's van . |
| 17 | In addition , a small stream flows from Drybrook to power a mill that once stood at Tusculum House , which contained an internal iron overshot wheel . |
| 18 | Among the new exhibits is a footbridge that once stood at Percy Main and a segment of the Channel Tunnel . |
| 19 | The incident occurred in mid-December and knocked several yards off the summit , which formerly stood at 12,349ft . |
| 20 | Standing on Anak Krakatoa we could see and feel the fragility of the world , for we also stood at the gateway to its oceanic hemisphere . |
| 21 | Not only did they guard the bridge crossing the Tyne , but they also stood at the junction of the Stanegate , running west towards Carlisle , and Dere Street , one of the two main arterial routes from York into central southern Scotland . |
| 22 | The tariff for goods carriage now stood at 20,000 times previous rates , but this still fell far below the cost-of-living index due to astronomical inflation . |
| 23 | The result was that it had been increased only twice and now stood at the princely sum of £30 . |
| 24 | The date was also marked by the announcement of the award of the D.F.M. to the veteran fighter pilot Sgt. Fred Robertson , whose personal score over the island now stood at eight . |
| 25 | The Staffel had claimed at least 42 victories , of which 20 ( including one over Yugoslavia ) had been credited to Müncheberg , whose score now stood at 43 . |
| 26 | Sammy , who had been watching the slight twitching movements that Willie had made in his sleep , now stood at his feet . |
| 27 | Overall programme costs now stood at $ 1,300 million . |
| 28 | That was how it had been , perhaps that was where it had started , thought Liz , as she stared into past and future , before jerking herself back into the present , which now stood at 20.22 . |
| 29 | British membership now stood at 1,639 but the overnight total had been augmented by many European trampers , a trend which was widely welcomed as a sign of real internationalism : ‘ This summer our hostels housed a miniature League of Nations ’ , claimed the Manchester and District Ramblers ' Federation Handbook in 1932 . |
| 30 | Maté and I now stood at the junction of the cathedral 's great T. The vertical limb of this overpowering architectural masterpiece sloped downwards . |