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

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1 She stands for the civilization of the South , of the Midi , the home of the troubadours , against the sterner , rougher , cruder world of the North , represented , in this image , by her husband , the King of the North Wind , whose authority she is subtly undermining and against whom she will soon break out in open rebellion .
2 She stands on the step looking more solid than the door .
3 I hate it cos when I call Jones she stands on the wall like that , right .
4 She stands as the martyr of organized and systematic sexual wrong-doing on the part of the man who should be her mate , and whom alone she has evolved to the human plane .
5 Most often she stands with the left foot forward ( a borrowing no doubt from the kouros , but it is not like his a full stride , rather so short a step as to seem like a dance-motion ) , left hand pulling the skirt to the side and letting a swag hang free , right forearm raised forward with an offering .
6 She stands beyond the see-through wall and grimaces to herself .
7 She stands in the doorway , chatting with JANE .
8 She stands in the garden with a basket over her arm and white pigeons flying over her head .
9 She stands in the shadow of the stair and then she goes forward .
10 She 's smiling softly as she stands in the dim glow , and she asks , ‘ Do you want to go to bed ? ’
11 She stands before the mirror , looking straight through her own reflection , scowls at the glass and blows a decidedly twentieth-century raspberry straight at me .
12 She stands by the window , checking her face in the silver compact .
13 Her face as she stood outside the register office , with that big municipal clock behind her , ticking off those first glistening moments of nuptial bliss .
14 She stood outside the back door for a moment .
15 At the moment , however , as she stood outside the door she had intended trying before , one trembling hand hesitating over the latch , Isabel could only think as far ahead as the next few minutes .
16 She stood outside the lifts in the hospital 's main entrance with other visitors .
17 ‘ Personal self-denial for the good of others was the first important lesson Annie learned , ’ says Taylor , ‘ and it was a principle by which she stood for the rest of her life . ’
18 A few moments later , she stood beside the uncovered coffin .
19 She stood under the shower , her thoughts going back to Dana .
20 She stood under the shower and told herself it was the water that was running down her face and not tears .
21 Fabia smiled , and discovered as she stood under the shower , that she was cheerfully humming a snatch of one of Dvořák 's Humoresques .
22 She stood over the foal licking it and nuzzling it and licking it again .
23 Nellie Tanner had reached Aggie 's front door and she stood over the dumpy , dark-haired woman .
24 Like an avenging witch , she stood over the pinched , sallow face , in which fright had at last replaced venom in the pale eyes .
25 She stood between the cops and Rubberneck .
26 She stood at the door and stared .
27 She stood at the bottom of the bed and reached out her hands to catch his and pull them forward .
28 She stood at the sink , chopping courgettes and aubergines , when he came in , and did not look up , so he surmised that the mood was bad .
29 She stood at the altar-steps , uncertain what to do as she watched her daughter try to put her arms round her priestly uncle , prattling all the while in infant Italian .
30 When he left , we watched from the Met Office windows as she stood at the salute on the edge of the perimeter track , until his aircraft was out of sight .
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