Example sentences of "they stood [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They stood amid the station crowds , arguing . |
| 2 | He was famous , people flocked to catch a glimpse of him , they stood for hours in the freezing cold in the hope that he would choose their hand to shake — for no better reason than an accident of birth . |
| 3 | They stood for a few moments in shy silence , staring from one to another . |
| 4 | They stood for a moment regarding it , then Meg Dennison said : ‘ When I first came here from London it almost frightened me , the sheer size of it , the way it dominates the headland . |
| 5 | Here they stood for a moment , looking round . |
| 6 | The tradition they stood for , though , had not . |
| 7 | All I knew was that my life was intolerable and that the only way not to be destroyed by it , or by ‘ them ’ as I called the adult , authoritative world , was to reject them and everything they stood for . |
| 8 | There they stood for a long time by a low stone wall , staring hopelessly out at the yellow fields of stubble , where the wheatsheaves were stooked and ready for gathering into the barn . |
| 9 | However , " culture " and art " were inherently undemocratic since they stood for processes of feeling , understanding , and evaluation that were considered to have become lost to majority cultures and literacies . |
| 10 | They stood for a long time in silence , and the others left them alone . |
| 11 | Trying to explain her husband 's loathing of the Allies and all they stood for , Giovanna had told her that there had in fact been no German or even Italian troops in the monastery and that its destruction had been unnecessary . |
| 12 | Jacobite sentiment had become more widespread by the end of Anne 's reign , and also more distinctively Tory in nature , but it was an attachment to Country ideology , and a deep hostility to the Whigs and Dissenters ( and what they stood for ) , which was its main defining characteristic . |
| 13 | In fact they stood for National War Museum . |
| 14 | He took off his glasses and put his arms around her waist , and they stood for a while facing one another . |
| 15 | When they left the restaurant they stood for some moments surveying the view of Prague , its many spires , red-roofed buildings , with a green dome here , the Vltava river with some of its bridges there , the Charles Bridge in particular Then , ‘ Shall we walk the rest of the way down ? ’ |
| 16 | They stood for two minutes in silence , signalled by the firing of a gun from the Royal Navy base , HMS Tamar . |
| 17 | They remembered this two hours later as they stood on the meadow in front of the big house at Fortingall , waiting for a crowd to gather . |
| 18 | No doubt Temple remembered that once they stood on the same platform at Cambridge . |
| 19 | ‘ One bus , ’ she said , as they stood on Lenin Allee . |
| 20 | Then the more experienced hunter struck a match and , lighting another fire , they stood on the leeward side of the new fire . |
| 21 | There the rise and swell of incomprehensible Latin seemed to have a grandeur that aroused the spirit of poetry in the Gaels , as if they stood on a rocky shore communing with the waves . |
| 22 | It resisted for a moment , then swung completely open , and they stood on the threshold , goggling in . |
| 23 | They stood on the concrete steps reviewing the dismal scene as if it were a personal insult . |
| 24 | He was simmering down , or more exactly , getting a little tired as they stood on the sidewalk waiting for a street-car . |
| 25 | They stood on no ceremony . |
| 26 | Five minutes later they stood on the grassy bank looking down at the brown water . |
| 27 | They stood on the steps and waved , as Chignell wheeled him away , and Breeze called out , ‘ Happy New Year ! ’ |
| 28 | They stood on the warm asphalt . |
| 29 | As they stood on either side of the door looking at one another she felt as if a magic elixir was being created , ready to cure a disease . |
| 30 | Gorbachev and Co were jeered and booed as they stood on Lenin 's mausoleum . |