Example sentences of "she stood on the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She then saw the men turn and make their way to where she stood on the veranda , and she knew that Silas had sent them to sign the register . |
| 2 | ‘ Oh , Fernando , ’ she breathed huskily as she stood on the edge of the pool . |
| 3 | She stood on the deck while the water rushed in through the sides of the great oaken gates , lifting the barge higher and higher until they were level with the water in the next basin . |
| 4 | It vanished completely as Alec opened the door for her and she stood on the threshold , looking into the dark , listening to the wind whining away outside the house . |
| 5 | She stood on the threshold of that world when war broke out and she went to work in a factory ; it began to open up for her when a photographer first spotted her and the camera became her true love . |
| 6 | ‘ Happy Christmas , Doris , ’ she said as she stood on the threshold . |
| 7 | She stood on the embankment breathing in gulps of air as he stood awkwardly by her , then fumbled for a handkerchief and he saw that she was crying . |
| 8 | As she stood on the quayside looking , a little yappy dog scuttered up from the cabin snarling at her bare toes a few inches from the deck , and a woman in maroon trousers and a yellow and orange flowered bikini top bulged over with fiery red flesh looked crossly at Peony . |
| 9 | Up there on the top step , looking down on Lucenzo 's bright fair head , she felt as if she stood on the brink of a great change in her life . |
| 10 | She stood on the stool and reached up to replace it , and when she stood back down again she bent over and whispered to me , ‘ That 's a bad omen , luv . |
| 11 | Dropping it , she stood on the ridge on the hillock , well away from the windmill itself , and placed her flags at the ‘ Ready ’ . |
| 12 | In a kind of distracted daze , she stood on the sidelines as the police arrived and started asking questions . |
| 13 | Later , she stood on the riverbank to watch the launching of the yellow and black rubber rafts . |
| 14 | She stood on the steps of the court , and told the crowd gathered there that the parents had been told they would have to wait to hear whether the Place of Safety orders had been confirmed , or whether their children would be returning home . |
| 15 | She stood on the pavement and pointed the spray can at the low brick wall of their front garden . |
| 16 | It was her first visit to a city and she was taken aback by the volume of traffic — ‘ I had heard about this kind of thing , but it 's quite frightening close to like this , ’ she said , as she stood on the pavement in City Square and watched four lanes of vehicles jousting strenuously for position . |
| 17 | She stood on the pavement looking up at the windows of their kitchen on the third floor . |
| 18 | She stood on the stage four mornings in a row , note-pad prominently displayed against her overall , waiting for his summons , and when it did n't come she watched the smoke from his cigarette curling above the upturned seats and felt she herself was drifting into darkness . |
| 19 | She stood on the landing , maybe a minute , maybe half an hour , staring at the window . |
| 20 | She stood on the landing , watching him as he went down the stairs and out by the side door . |
| 21 | It was red , and when she stood on the table and touched it , it looked like blood . |
| 22 | She stood on the stairs by the open window , waiting for the next stroke of the bell , waiting in fact for this sign of Ernest 's madness . |