Example sentences of "i stood [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | I stood about fifty metres away from the still steaming crater . |
2 | At the end of my final year I stood as a sabbatical officer for the Union . |
3 | I stood as the Green Party candidate in May 1988 and 1989 . |
4 | I stood over the other side of the road from it and watched . |
5 | When I had stretched him out on the floor , I stood over him . |
6 | I stood under the shower . |
7 | I stood under trees , surveying the stone walls and vines of the Villa Diodati . |
8 | I pulled the door shut and almost ran to the front door and into Langdon Crescent garden , where I stood for five minutes breathing in the fresh air . |
9 | I stood for a long time in a telephone box just to keep out of the slicing rain . |
10 | I stood for a long while looking at Voting Right . |
11 | This done , I stood for a moment looking across at the broch islet . |
12 | I stood for a moment looking at the mattress on the bed where a knife had been used to open up the sides . |
13 | I stood for a long time , staring at the mirror . |
14 | At the previous election I stood for election to a United Kingdom Parliament , as did the hon. Gentleman . |
15 | Dad Tam : " You promise me you will never tell anybody " til " am deed that I stood for the man who made that statue . " |
16 | In nineteen sixty six I stood for election of the national organizer and was successful and joined the head office in Glasgow in May nineteen sixty six . |
17 | But our to avoid that situation I left and went to work with which kept me in the Edinburgh branch and within three or four weeks I stood for the local organizer and had not been successful . |
18 | When er I stood for the election of the national organizers for the East of Scotland and I was successful there and I left the Edinburgh branch in May nineteen sixty six to start work with the head office in nine May nineteen sixty six . |
19 | They made the driver help them , but I stood to one side stamping my feet to keep warm and watching the horizon with keen interest . |
20 | At the great Adam , Eve and Immaculate Conception church near the river , I stood with others in the marble hallway and listened to beautiful female solos soaring praises up to Heaven . |
21 | How sorry I felt for them as I stood with my images of a future of crackling kindling and bringing the pine logs hither and other rustic carry-ons . |
22 | On that great night , I stood with them and chipped away with my bare hands , until my fingers were bleeding , to bring down that iniquitous wall . |
23 | I stood with the breeze flapping at my collar , watching the spin-drift sand , promising that one day I would write about this place . |
24 | I stood with my back to the partition wall , watching . |
25 | I stood with her against the sink . |
26 | I stood with a group of officials and other bystanders . |
27 | As I stood with my hands resting on the stone of the bridge , the door of the hotel was again thrown open . |
28 | There was a different harsh reality waiting in the lodge : I stood with chums , amazed at what looked like Som . |
29 | I stood with my hands palm to palm in a praying position and pleaded with him . |
30 | I stood on the fringe of the little group for a few moments waiting for a chance to speak to Lovat . |