Example sentences of "[was/were] stand at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three or four people without seats were standing at the far dome car end , including the actress Angelica . |
| 2 | A policeman was standing at the other end of the alley . |
| 3 | his school uniform , strip naked , was standing at the other end of the pool did n't say anything , Al Alistair , deaf guy |
| 4 | When they went in Marc was standing at the high-arched window at the far end of a long refectory made sepulchral by huge arching beams of dark oak . |
| 5 | She was standing at the front edge of the stage with the microphone hanging from one limp hand by the outside of her right thigh . |
| 6 | Mme Guérigny was standing at the front door , her head pushed back , shouting up to the attic window for Jean-Claude . |
| 7 | A detective-constable was standing at the front door with the detached watchfulness of a man paid to endure boredom but ready to leap into action should , unaccountably , the boredom end . |
| 8 | Now I was standing at the closed door listening to his absence . |
| 9 | Yvonne was standing at the far end of the room in her red tent dress , her arms extended , a glass of brandy glimmering in one hand . |
| 10 | T'zin was standing at the far end , and Jotan and Nogai were circling one another in the wide space of one of the loose boxes . |
| 11 | She was standing at the far end of the room , waiting for him . |
| 12 | Ralph Salperton was standing at the living-room window . |
| 13 | Martin was standing at the furthermost edge of the terrace , looking over the gardens and down to the sea . |
| 14 | He was standing at the open window in his pyjamas , the shotgun in his hand , staring out at the front field where the black splash of a jackdaw lay on the white ground beneath the ash tree . |