Example sentences of "stood a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Half-way between the dunes and the water stood a green sign , a foot high , no more . |
| 2 | Similarly the many Mexicans looking simply to cast an anti-government vote supported the left , which stood a greater chance of winning and emerged in second place amid evidence of substantial fraud by the government . |
| 3 | Power did count in the end , though , for try as she might Mills could not contain the might of Italy 's Emanuela Pierantozzi , the European champion , who stood a head taller and reached over with a powerful grip . |
| 4 | In the kitchen stood a large bag of coke . |
| 5 | She slammed it and , carrying a child in her arms , squeezed between the small vehicle and the huge , finned Plymouth , dragonfly blue , that stood a foot from it . |
| 6 | Neither Arup nor the developers stood a chance . |
| 7 | ‘ In a side street , not far from the burning Palace of Justice , yet out of the way , stood a man , sharply distinguished from the crowd , flailing his hands in the air and moaning over and over again : ‘ The files are burning ! |
| 8 | Apart from spending a lot of money on the church , they built this house , where once stood a meagre rectory , and called it ‘ Sutton on the Hill Hall ’ . |
| 9 | Then I noticed that right beside the checkpoint , in fact touching it , there stood a terrace of houses , and that in the front window of one of them stood a Christmas tree , with lights draped along its branches . |
| 10 | Then I noticed that right beside the checkpoint , in fact touching it , there stood a terrace of houses , and that in the front window of one of them stood a Christmas tree , with lights draped along its branches . |
| 11 | At the apex stood a chariot with a four-horse team : one of the horses is shown in Figure 6.7 . |
| 12 | In a corner of Frankie 's room stood a large wooden chest whose drawers were too stiff for him to open . |
| 13 | Gaily had thought he stood a chance . |
| 14 | Against them stood a world ordered by ritual , sacrality , and magic . |
| 15 | On the inland side of the broken city stood a humpy line of green mounds , perhaps with old treasures or masonry in their innards . |
| 16 | Near the bus and railway station stood a Great Southern Hotel , not too different from the luxurious mansion I had known in Killarney . |
| 17 | Not far from the river stood a statue to General Humbert , with Irish words underneath , and verses from a ballad . |
| 18 | Soon we reached the shrine , a car-park-like space beside the road in which stood a large glass tank containing a painted figure of Mary looking with pity on Jesus crucified . |
| 19 | In front of them stood a microphone on a stand , and then several rows of school chairs filling about a third of the area , though most people sat on the ground . |
| 20 | The architect did not try to reproduce a mediaeval church with aisles and chancel but chose an octagon shape with one side designated as an ‘ east end ’ with a window under which stood a Holy Table . |
| 21 | These were located mainly in rural areas and in smaller market towns where conservative practices inherited from the past stood a better chance of survival . |
| 22 | If I stood a starving child before you , |
| 23 | Where the River Lovat flows out of Lake Ilmen and north to Lake Ladoga , there stood a great city with wooden walls . |
| 24 | In preparation for the final session , I designated a ‘ robot controller ’ room area , roped off , a large placard with ROBOT CONTROLLER in red ( I should have added PRIVATE , DO NOT ENTER as a nice re-inforcer of the point , but I did not think about it in time ) against a dais on which stood a table and a hand microphone ( a television control device which he had carried around with him on previous occasions ) . |
| 25 | In front of him , wearing a black robe , stood a huge man with a face like a ploughed field . |
| 26 | Outside the front door of the school stood a line of teachers wearing the same robes as the Headmaster . |
| 27 | Against one wall stood a grand armchair made with books and tied together with string . |
| 28 | She turned to gaze at the man who 'd approached silently and stood a little behind her on her left . |
| 29 | At Shefford Woodlands , near the border of the Littlecote estate , stood a stile . |
| 30 | We simply drove over Mount Lebanon on the Damascus highway , turned a corner west of Chtaura where silver birches ran beside the road and there , quite casually , stood a Syrian soldier in combat fatigues , rifle over his shoulder , cigarette in his mouth , a swaggerstick covered in snakeskin in his right hand . |