Example sentences of "[pn reflx] stand on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Almost as if he had willed himself there , he found himself standing on the scree at the foot of the rock wall , staring upwards , searching with the little experience he had gained on school climbing expeditions for footholds . |
| 2 | In the first premonition , Mr Reynolds saw himself standing on the footplate of No 43106 leaving Bridgnorth , smoke-box first , with some covered wagons heading for Bewdley . |
| 3 | The Ordnance Survey map , Sheet 117 in the Landranger series , shows Gresford itself standing on low hills about 30/40 metres high above the flood plains of the Dee estuary . |
| 4 | She found herself standing on top of a translucent bubble set in Moloch 's ice-bound landscape , close to one side of a bowl-shaped depression some fifty metres across . |
| 5 | Then darkness enfolded her , and she found herself standing on a solid surface in a shadowed room , staring upwards at the underside of the dimple with a strange sense of having been reborn . |
| 6 | She found herself standing on a wide terrace , with steps that led away from the house . |
| 7 | It may be an unpalatable thought , but we suspect that to an increasing degree throughout the 1990s brewers and conservationists will find themselves standing on the same side of the fence . |
| 8 | She felt like someone who suffered from vertigo and suddenly found themselves standing on the edge of a deep abyss . |