Example sentences of "stand [adv] [verb] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He would happily have stood there kissing her till the next morning . |
| 2 | A large carthorse stood drowsily eating something in the grass . |
| 3 | When he stood up to greet her in the lobby of the hotel , her heart contracted a little with love . |
| 4 | And there was something about him , an aura of confidence and power , as he stood there facing her across the bonnet of the Mini that told her that even if she 'd been driving a tank there was no way in the world he would have let her go past . |
| 5 | Some way below the garden a man stood quietly washing himself in the hot water from the spring ; it was channelled down there in a homemade aqueduct of halved bamboo stalks resting on forked twigs . |