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 .
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