Example sentences of "[pron] stand at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I stand at the window ( which I am not going to do ) I can see a small fat man with a trilby hat , a British warm and what looks like a binocular case , standing down below on the other side of the road and peering up with an anxious concentration at this battered , paint-peeling semi-circle of so-called Mansion Flats . |
| 2 | And , saddened , I stand at the door , and wait in the cold |
| 3 | Behold , I stand at the door and knock : if any man hear my voice , and open the door , I will come in to him Revelation 3 : 20 |
| 4 | All Church assemblies should perhaps have the motto , ‘ Behold I stand at the door and knock ’ inscribed above the door to remind them that the Church exists for outsiders not insiders . |
| 5 | ‘ One can not say to the Zanaki people along the shores of the sprawling Lake Victoria , ‘ Behold I stand at the door and knock ’ ( Rev. 3:20 ) . |
| 6 | Accordingly , in the Zanaki translation it is necessary to say , ‘ Behold , I stand at the door and call ’ ’ ( Nida 1952:46 ) . |
| 7 | I stand at the window . |
| 8 | I stand at the bottom and watch him . |
| 9 | I stand at an easel to paint . |
| 10 | Although couched in the typically occult language of the time , Garland 's prescient account catches society at a crossroads : those young homosexuals adrift in a postwar landscape without signs may now be seen as harbingers of a new way of life and a new economic order — variously described as pop culture , youth culture or the Teen age — which stand at the heart of ‘ late , consumer or multinational capitalism ’ . |
| 11 | Bain and Howells ( 1988 , Ch. 5 ) outline a simple monetary base approach to controlling the money supply and also discuss the money market operations which stand at the centre of current methods of control . |
| 12 | The Lord Chancellor will have to weigh carefully whether those benefits , as well as the competition gains and advantages for the consumer identified by Sir Bryan , which stand at the heart of the Government 's policy for legal services , should be pursued , or — as the Advisory Committee and the Bar would prefer — they should be lost and the application rejected . ’ |
| 13 | The index-linked gilts on the market have maturities of up to 2024 and most of them stand at a substantial premium to their par value . |
| 14 | The cughtagh 's presence is marked by a far-off tumble of pebbles and gravel as you stand at the opening to his cave . |
| 15 | You stand at the iron door |
| 16 | but when ya , when you stand at the front door and er there 's a blower breeze and it 's cold , if you put your hand round the door like that , you can feel a draught , you can feel it colder than the you know and the letter box , the draught but if you take that and put a curtain up , it 'll keep the cold out , you 've stopped the draught so you 're gon na win |
| 17 | Are you aware that the array of funerals , commonly made by undertakers , is strictly the heraldic array of a baronial funeral , the two men who stand at the doors being supposed to be the two porters of the castle , with their staves , in black ; the man who heads the procession , wearing a scarf , being a representative of a herald-at-arms ; the man who carries a plume of feathers on his head being an esquire , who bears the shield and casque , with its plume of feathers ; the pall-bearers , with batons , being representatives of knights-companions-at-arms ; the men walking with wands being supposed to represent gentlemen-ushers , with their wands : are you aware that this is said to be the origin and type of the common array usually provided by those who undertake to perform funerals ? |
| 18 | And in such situations it is usually the unpaid office holders who stand at the top of the hierarchy and who give orders to their wage-earning staff |
| 19 | ‘ We stand at a crossroads , Cam , ’ Mr Whistle said . |
| 20 | Despite the reported remarks ‘ to scorer colleagues … it must be very difficult to give a decision so far out ’ , it is n't ; we stand at a distance from which we can see . |
| 21 | For musicians , the lure of the West must be strong , and for reasons as understandable as basic working conditions and standard of living , but as a result we stand at a crossroads : how can we possibly avoid the continuing standardization of orchestral , instrumental and vocal production , and continue to have the opportunity of hearing music played in a style and tradition for which it was probably originally conceived . |
| 22 | Their belief is that we stand at the beginning of an age in which the microcomputer will truly become part of human culture . |
| 23 | As we stand at the dawn of another pace-dominated summer , One Short went in search of answers . |
| 24 | ‘ I have started a review of our performance in all kinds of areas when there can be an impact on the environment to build up an objective picture of where we stand at the present and where improvement can be made . |
| 25 | The introduction of TECs was critical of the past because matters had not been managed collaboratively : " We stand at the crossroads . |
| 26 | If the absolutely fundamental achievements of human culture represented in the prohibitions on violence against authority and the temptation to incest which occasion it are loosened , then we stand at the edge of a frightful abyss which represents a collapse into an almost pre-human state of savagery and violence . |
| 27 | Er , obviously on a more serious note , er it was very disappointing that we had such a severe er downturn in profitability last year after several years of steadily rising profits , and so what I want to do this morning was tell you a little bit about what happened in the last part of the year , since we met at the time of the interim results presentation last September , tell you the actions that have been taken and give you a little bit of insight as to where we stand at the present time . |
| 28 | It is mentioned to indicate that we stand at the start of communication changes and must prepare to play our part imaginatively in the future and not just retrospectively . |
| 29 | The story of victims number 37,38 and 39 was : ‘ In an apparent ambush , a gang member , fourteen , is killed and two others are wounded as they stand at a bus stop . ’ |
| 30 | When they stand at the watchnight service and hear those self-same carols they will galvanise into action and begin to take up the offering among the congregation and go off to ring it up on the cash register . |