Example sentences of "who stand at the " in BNC.

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1 But before Budd came on , they had to listen to Andy Roberts , who stands at the opposite end of ufology to Hopkins and whose new book , Phantoms Of The Sky ( written with Dave Clarke , published by Robert Hale ) , gave the conference its name .
2 ‘ We have a saying in my country , ‘ for him who stands at the top of the tower there is no other season but winter . ’
3 Are you aware that the array of funerals , commonly made by undertakers , is strictly the heraldic array of a baronial funeral , the two men who stand at the doors being supposed to be the two porters of the castle , with their staves , in black ; the man who heads the procession , wearing a scarf , being a representative of a herald-at-arms ; the man who carries a plume of feathers on his head being an esquire , who bears the shield and casque , with its plume of feathers ; the pall-bearers , with batons , being representatives of knights-companions-at-arms ; the men walking with wands being supposed to represent gentlemen-ushers , with their wands : are you aware that this is said to be the origin and type of the common array usually provided by those who undertake to perform funerals ?
4 And in such situations it is usually the unpaid office holders who stand at the top of the hierarchy and who give orders to their wage-earning staff
5 who stood at the gate of the year ,
6 To begin with , there were the ‘ Novices ’ , young boys of around 9 , 10 and 11 , who stood at the front of the ‘ end ’ and whose major occupation consisted of watching the activities of the older youths behind them .
7 I went into Fortnum and Mason and then across the road to speak to a gentleman dressed in very fine livery and top hat who stood at the entrance to Burlington Arcade .
8 I SAID to the man who stood at the gate of the year , ‘ Give me a light that I may tread safely into the unknown ’ .
9 ‘ Just what do you mean , the London to Glasgow train terminated at Crewe ? ’ asked the leading hand of the two Wrens who stood at the counter .
10 Great numbers might drift through the drama , of course — thousands in fact — but they could only ever be phantoms , agents or , on rare occasions , reflections of the three real and self-willed beings who stood at the centre .
11 who stood at the end of summer
12 He was watching Stella who stood at the fireplace , leaning against the armchair in which Potter now sat holding court .
13 A male and a female who stood at the head of the profession have died lately , and it is supposed their places shall not be filled . "
14 A male and a female who stood at the head of the profession have died lately , and it is supposed their places shall not be filled . "
15 At Alice Fernie and Stanley Curtis who stood at the Fernies ' gate .
16 But Downes appeared not to hear the supplementary questions , and Dixon nodded to the constable who stood at the door , the latter now making for the canteen on a less than wholly specific mission .
17 She stared at the people in the pool , who had all seemed to respond to the whistle and were looking at someone who stood at the poolside , someone obscured from Rachel 's vision by the attendant 's tall chair .
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