Example sentences of "[pron] stood at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I stood at the foot of the bed and watched my grandfather go to sleep . |
| 2 | And then he was pushed roughly on , and suddenly , inexplicably my mind was filled with a vivid picture of Christ looking down at me as I stood at the foot of the cross . |
| 3 | Employing a lounge-lizard gait , he swaggered towards me as I stood at the bar waiting for my Coke . |
| 4 | I stood at the bar with the Morning Line , WITCH WHO LIED FOR DR SEX . |
| 5 | I saw him a few times more after that , in the months that followed , coming slowly up the lane from the station , as Millie and I stood at the gate . |
| 6 | I stood at the top of the slope . |
| 7 | I stood at the door and looked up , but the windows were dark ; she had gone to bed . |
| 8 | I stood at the window and looked down into the street . |
| 9 | In the city , I stood at the window and identified the cars as they breezed by . |
| 10 | I stood at the edge of a circle of standing stones , each eight to ten foot high , with a massive central stone which leaned at a perilous angle . |
| 11 | Happiness , I knew , was not something she thought much of as an end : it was as if she had said , I 'm glad you do n't mind being poor , and , although when I replied to her , it was only to tell her about the baby , Thomas , and how he had put on five pounds and had cut his first tooth , I brooded over what I might have said while I stood at the sink or pushed the pram , making great , windy speeches in my mind , venting on my absent aunt the curious , unreasonable anger that seemed to rise up before me like a dark pit , bottomless and frightening . |
| 12 | I stood at the doorway , waiting . |
| 13 | When I stood at the doorway , hesitating to dash into the pouring rain , I could see that the landscape had moved with the date . |
| 14 | As a small boy , growing up in Liverpool , I stood at the Pier Head and marvelled at the huge Atlantic liners berthed at the world 's largest floating landing-stage . |
| 15 | Images of animals huddled together for warmth , safety and companionship floated into my mind as I stood at the side of this man , watching him examine firearms . |
| 16 | Dinah learnt the lines , was laced into the vulgar striped dress the part required , which had stains under the arms from the young lady off sick , was heavily rouged and had her eyebrows blackened , and walked on to the boards to the flare of gaslight and the outline of gentlemen in bowler hats they had not troubled to remove , refreshing themselves at the bar which stood at the back of the theatre . |
| 17 | It was the decaying thatched cottage known as Gilbard 's which stood at the top of Lime Street in Stowey , and which had been occupied until then by a widow called Elizabeth Rendell . |
| 18 | King Edward of England sat in his purple silken pavilion which stood at the centre of his great camp on the green meadows beneath the formidable mass of Nottingham Castle . |
| 19 | By the way — ’ She opened her bag and drew out the incriminating tape , which she put down on the round antique table which stood at the centre of the hall . |
| 20 | Euston , Tom Eckersley : a reminder of the Doric Arch which stood at the entrance to the BR station . |
| 21 | He recalled the ancient baptistery which stood at the east end of the church , where the bodies of the archbishops had lain , and where the trials by ordeal had taken place . |
| 22 | So he jumped head first into the forty-gallon oil-drum full of rainwater which stood at the rear of the caravan . |
| 23 | My store of money began to dwindle but at last I found Le Coq d'Or , a dingy , two-storey building which stood at the mouth of one of the runnels on the far side of the Grand Pont opposite the elaborately carved Notre Dame Cathedral . |
| 24 | She stood at the door and stared . |
| 25 | She stood at the door , the Doctor 's name poised on her lips , but just before she called out , something made her hesitate . |
| 26 | For a moment she stood at the door , watching it , wondering whether to answer it or not . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | She stood at the head of the small table , waiting for her son and daughter to seat themselves on either side of her and then sat down . |
| 29 | And as she stood at the window she seemed to hear again , as clearly as she had heard it two days before , the sound of Henrietta screaming . |
| 30 | While waiting for the kettle to boil , she stood at the window watching the rain . |