Example sentences of "stood on [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Almost any small feature in a building or even a field wall may say something of the structures that once stood on such sites . |
| 2 | ‘ What would you give me if I stood on that boulder on one leg ? ’ asked Christopher , eyeing a small rock on the extreme edge of the cliff . |
| 3 | cos I mean if they walked into here on stood on that bar hundred and twenty people |
| 4 | There , identical buildings stood on each side of the track . |
| 5 | Carlo and McGowan stood on either side of the embalmer , he might 've been in custody . |
| 6 | As they stood on either side of the door looking at one another she felt as if a magic elixir was being created , ready to cure a disease . |
| 7 | He and his sister stood on either side of the bed , bending over her as if to protect her from the perils of the night with their own flesh and bone . |
| 8 | Two young Romanians came and stood on either side of me at the mirror . |
| 9 | He indicated one of the big Chesterfields which stood on either side of the fireplace . |
| 10 | With heavy hearts we stood on either side of the broken body . |
| 11 | Their eyes were identically glazed in male and female as they stood on either side of a seated broadclothed patriarch . |
| 12 | Stren Withel hesitated hallway to the door as several very large trolls ducked under the doorway and stood on either side of the fat man , blinking in the light . |
| 13 | Glaring from one to the other as they stood on either side of the bed , she said crossly to Lucy , ‘ So you 've brought him to see me at last . |
| 14 | Music played softly in the background as they stood on either side of the hearth , smiling uncertainly at one another like former lovers reunited after a long absence and wondering whether they still had anything in common . |
| 15 | Indeed , the dagger could have come from anywhere : a darkened window , a shadowed door or from the top of any of the low squat buildings which stood on either side of the alleyway . |
| 16 | Everyone stopped where they were and stared as she pointed dramatically at a dark green house plant which stood on some kind of plinth behind the seat she 'd been allocated . |
| 17 | IN A HOUSE WHICH STOOD ON THIS SITE ’ . |
| 18 | A farmhouse probably stood on this site at the time of the Great Plague . |
| 19 | For though it stands so isolated today from human kind , St Mary 's church was a mother-church for a wide area round about , as befitted the spiritual centre of a royal estate ; and we do not know how far back a building stood on this site . |
| 20 | 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 . ’ |
| 21 | The nine years that had elapsed since she last stood on this spot could have been a dream . |