Example sentences of "[noun pl] [was/were] stand on [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two Frenchmen were standing on the sand beside their little van . |
| 2 | On the opposite side of the quadrangle , silhouetted figures were standing on the roofs , whooping and jumping about . |
| 3 | A few miles away , however , a handful of confident zemindars were standing on the embankment with the water almost licking their sandals . |
| 4 | The two men were standing on the balcony outside James 's flat when they saw smoke billowing out of the 75-year-old woman 's home below . |
| 5 | Crowds of men were standing on the river-bank , pushing and jostling , craning their necks and shifting position , trying to get a view through the mass of bodies and out across the water . |
| 6 | At this point the two girls just marched off the train , one of them picked up David , the other one picked me up , screamed Russian things at the soldiers — I have n't a clue what they were saying — and marched us back on the train and barred the door , while the Russian soldiers were standing on the platform screaming horrible things at them . |
| 7 | An elderly man with a white pointed beard was being shepherded into a chauffeur-driven car by the short rough-haired woman in a thick tweed suit , who had been at Rupert 's house that evening in the autumn ; a little man carrying two heavy-looking suitcases was hurrying away as if to catch a train ; a group of younger men and women was standing on the pavement , talking and laughing . |
| 8 | And when they arrived some of the Celtic tribes were standing on the shore and they were very very fierce , bright red hair some of them had and beards . |