Example sentences of "[subord] standing [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The book is well designed ; the pages are made of Zerkall mould-made paper which flops languidly open rather than standing to starched attention perpendicular to the open cover . |
| 2 | Now , I 'd rather be sitting in a car than standing on a crowded platform , but there was n't much in the way of light relief on the radio . |
| 3 | Nothing could be more boring , to her mind , than standing on the banks of a river for hour after hour , sometimes the entire day , hoping for a fish to take . |
| 4 | There 's the ‘ I 'm so fat I could be a turkey ’ type of robin ; the ‘ Is n't there more to life than standing on this stupid twig ’ robin ; and , the special favourite , the robin with the ‘ How come the cattle always get to go in the stable ? ’ look . |
| 5 | There 's nothing finer than standing on the edge of a Dales hill like this looking down at the landscape strung out below . |
| 6 | WHAT 's worse than standing on the ice in the middle of a river when the temperature is below freezing ? |
| 7 | While the mechanics were setting up the cars , she thought she 'd go outside into one of the empty stands to try to find a breath of wind , anything rather than standing in the back of the pits in the high humidity which made her skin glow . |
| 8 | It was approached by a shallow flight of steps on all sides , as if standing on a plinth . |
| 9 | I ask them to form a circle , as if standing around the hole , and close their eyes . |
| 10 | Yeah , cos standing about waiting for buses is not fun . |
| 11 | John discloses that there were also practical problems about adding to the family while standing for Parliament . |
| 12 | Mr Allen was tactless enough to offer his opinion while standing beside Mr Dinkins . |
| 13 | While standing at the corner with some of the boys , a tall , well-built , red-haired man approached them , and said : |
| 14 | Punctuated by interjections from Mark , Clem told the story of how Mark had fallen into a barrel of high viscosity oil while standing on the lid to get at another barrel with his hand pump . |
| 15 | Rumour has it that Stevo ( below ) signed some of his first acts , including Soft Cell , while standing on his head . |
| 16 | Noël Coward was inspired to write the song ‘ London Pride ’ while standing on the platform of a London station on the morning after a particularly bad blitz and seeing Londoners going about their business ‘ gay and determined and wholly admirable ’ . |
| 17 | The fact we were chatting about a programme on Radio 4 while standing on a dainty platform hundreds of feet tall seemed not to bother him . |
| 18 | Bees learn colour only in the final three seconds as they land : the colour visible to the bee before the landing sequence , the colours it sees while standing on the flower to feed and while circling the blossom before flying off , simply never register . |
| 19 | Such a scene can still be witnessed while standing on the quaint little hump-backed bridge opposite the mill . |
| 20 | He died 2 May 1914 while standing on deck as his steamer entered Toronto harbour . |
| 21 | There is also the small matter of resolving the conundrum of targeting Labour-held seats in an electoral context while standing on common ground over matters such as the taking of stock . |
| 22 | Sylvia was able to take from the cupboard only those items she could reach while standing in the hall itself . |
| 23 | While standing in the same street , joy would notice the creative window displays and smiling faces , hear the laughter and smell the roasting chestnuts on the street corner ; while Gloom would see the traffic , litter and inflated prices , hear the honking horns and smell the exhaust fumes . |
| 24 | Stewart had filled in the V62 form while standing in the queue moments before staging the hold-up , the jury heard . |
| 25 | As herons fish while standing in the pool , it is a simple matter to deter them . |
| 26 | In fact , I have to spend a lot of my time asking silly questions of people while standing in all sorts of silly places . |
| 27 | While standing in front of the gammacamera , the subject sipped a small amount of 9 9 m Tc-DTPA labelled water to outline the stomach . |
| 28 | If you disagree , try arguing with Paul after his 37th run-through of ‘ This is not a song about old James Dean ’ while standing by a three million foot drop off a mountain top . |
| 29 | I was very impressed by the volume and depth of sound from such a small cab , and although there 's not the power to cover a very large stage , I found there was no great loss in tone when standing to the side of the amp — a problem with some larger rigs . |
| 30 | When standing for any length of time , remember that a wide base is more stable than a small one . |