Example sentences of "[conj] [noun prp] stood at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A year later another branch to Holt , ultimately Cromer , was completed and Melton stood at the centre of a minor railway junction . |
| 2 | Heathcliff and Hareton stood at the door , laughing , as I shouted at the dogs and tried to get up . |
| 3 | As the boatmen rowed him out into the middle of Sydney harbour , his piper played a lament at the stem and John stood at the prow in full dress uniform , with his sword held high . |
| 4 | And when the train started she wished she could close her cars too , because Nick stood at the window and sang . |
| 5 | While Jimmy stood at the reception desk counter , both arms spread out on it backwards in the same pose that he had adopted at the bar counter earlier that evening , Duvall simply stood two feet by his side , watching him . |
| 6 | I will go so far as to concede that taken in isolation , ripped away from the defining context of humour and irony and friendship , studied in their literal or surface sense only , then , yes , the words I spoke in that room as Robert stood at the window pretending to take me seriously could be understood to mean that during the past six or seven years I had gone to bed with more than one hundred and fifty prostitutes . |