Example sentences of "[vb past] stand at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The man moved to stand at the top of the stairs , barring their way , and then he recognized the young man . |
| 2 | His hand under her arm steadied her as they moved to stand at the rail . |
| 3 | Penry Vaughan ducked his tall head through the doorway and moved to stand at the foot of the bed in the shadows beyond the arc of light from the small lamp . |
| 4 | Whereupon he tried it stante pede , shoved the stool away and played standing at the organ , at the same time working the pedal , and doing it all as if he had been practising it for several months . |
| 5 | The Party 's best known members , Jonathan Porritt and Sara Parkin , declined to stand at a ballot to elect two Green Party political speakers . |
| 6 | He did not , but went to stand at the window , looking out . |
| 7 | Pushing roughly past him , she went to stand at the window , her back to him . |
| 8 | Luke pushed back his chair impatiently and went to stand at the window , looking down , his back towards her . |
| 9 | And , the children were in there erm doing their P E and er he went stood at the door and watched them and he was quite happy . |
| 10 | Staffing ratios were generally better in grammar schools than elsewhere , and even the Burnham system favoured ( as it was meant to do ) schools with a larger proportion of older pupils , especially if they were in those sixth forms which continued to stand at the peak of a meritocratic secondary system . |
| 11 | She continued to stand at the edge of the plateau . |
| 12 | Though she was only a part-time whore who ‘ had to stand at the washtub next day . ’ |
| 13 | There were so many mourners at the funeral that some had to stand at the back and listen to the service relayed by loudspeakers . |
| 14 | The American novelist Thomas Wolfe wrote standing at a tall refrigerator — a chair and table being too cramped for the big mountain man — and he dropped unnumbered sheets , each with a few scrawled words , into a cardboard box at his feet . |
| 15 | After a few minutes , he went into the saloon and ordered a coffee which he drank standing at the bar . |
| 16 | We ordered lemon syrups with ice-cold water , and drank standing at the bar . |
| 17 | Vividly could he still recall his nurses preventing him from going to her there , and he knew he had stood at a window just like this , gazing with longing through the trees to the building where his mother was imprisoned . |
| 18 | That evening , as her mother had stood at the kitchen door with the shadow of future old age lurking behind her , she had felt for the first time what it was to be a grown-up , what it was that she was missing in the never-never land of Fenna 's spell . |
| 19 | Twelve years ago , he said , President Ronald Reagan had stood at the same podium and said if the national debt were stacked in $1,000 bills , ‘ the stack would reach 67 miles into space . |
| 20 | The New York Times of Aug. 14 reported that Iraq had transferred between US$3,000 million and $5,000 million in gold , foreign currency and goods from Kuwait and that this had significantly increased Iraq 's financial reserves which had stood at an estimated US$6,500 million before the invasion . |
| 21 | The borough MPs were very different from their county colleagues , and only thirty-seven of the eighty-six from English boroughs even lived in the same towns ; many were carpet-bagging lawyers , induced to stand at the last moment and at the expense of Central Office . |
| 22 | Gabriel remained standing at the top of the steps : Garvey told him to do so . |