Example sentences of "[is] standing near " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh look he 's standing near Leggio look . |
| 2 | I 've only read up to the bit where he 's standing near the hooker . |
| 3 | A member of the German Wire Company is conducting a line test on one of the telephones , and the Turkish interpreter , a young , olive-skinned Lance-Corporal with only two of his eighteen months ' national service remaining , and known to all by his first name of Ercan because his surname is unpronounceable in English , is standing near the entrance drinking coffee and smoking a foul-smelling cigarette . |
| 4 | Let's say you are in a room with a big table in the middle of it ; and your attacker is standing near the only exit . |
| 5 | His son is standing near the main entrance , ready for the journey , carrying a stick , a spear and a small leather bottle , similar to the sort of thing drunken youths use to squirt wine down their throats before braving the bulls in Pamplona . |