Example sentences of "i stand on " in BNC.
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| 31 | I stood on the doorstep alone , pressing my lids together , breathing in , breathing out . |
| 32 | I stood on the step with my hamper . |
| 33 | As I stood on one foot to remove them , the little cabin shifted on its suspension but there was no embarrassment , not even in the disparity between the utility of our underwear and the transcendence of our desire . |
| 34 | When my holiday had the goodness to be over , I stood on the usual rush-hour bus and read a schoolboy 's comic strips over his shoulder . |
| 35 | I stood on the round wall and wound the handle as fast as I could , but when the bucket was still just out of reach , the rope kept slipping so I could not reach the bucket . |
| 36 | I could hear the sound of rent cloth in my head , but I stood on a wooden chair while Lili pinned the seams closer , standing quietly like a broken horse to be saddled and bridled . |
| 37 | I stood on tip-toes to look round the hall ; a paper-plane battle seemed to be taking place at one end . |
| 38 | I stood on my grave and my flesh knew all there is to know of clay , and my bones of stone . |
| 39 | I stood on her doorstep and started hooting with laughter . |
| 40 | I felt I needed all mine as I stood on guard outside the Grand . |
| 41 | It was once full of treasures , but all I could think about as I stood on the battlemented roof , looking out over the Aegean , was that a disciple of Christ 's had sat in his cell in a little monastery half-way up the hill recording the extraordinary revelations he had been vouchsafed . |
| 42 | I stood on tiptoe . |
| 43 | I stood on the parapet , looking out over the town of Swindon , willing myself to feel less disembodied . |
| 44 | At length I stood on the ground , up to my ankles in fresh-fallen snow . |
| 45 | As I stood on the footbridge I had a good view of the station . |
| 46 | I stood on the final tee with Ken Schofield and imagined the kind of pressure build-up the players were feeling . |
| 47 | I would send it swooping over and under hers , or dive it down to the sands while I stood on a dune cliff , pulling the kite down to nick tall towers of sand I 'd built , then pulling up again , the kite trailing a spray of sand through the air from the collapsing tower . |
| 48 | As my companion remarked , the oldies are goldies and you ca n't get much ( g ) older than ‘ I stood on this stage 30 years ago and I was so successful they 've asked me back tonight . ’ |