Example sentences of "she [verb] stand [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Until that last few minutes , when she 'd stood in the doorway of the room and watched Nigel making love to another girl .
2 At any rate she came to stand by the bureau .
3 She use to stand on the street .
4 Pushing roughly past him , she went to stand at the window , her back to him .
5 She left the pages where they lay , one-dimensional flakes littering the murky floor , and she went to stand by the balcony window again .
6 Remembering how she had stood on the tower battlements the next morning , watching her knight ride away .
7 She continued to stand at the edge of the plateau .
8 She continued to stand in the middle of the kitchen , ablaze .
9 She wanted to stand on the balcony and look out over the roofs , listen to the strange sounds and watch the cars and scooters rushing by in the street below .
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