Example sentences of "standing at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gilbert Forbes , still in his butler 's costume but without the tail coat and his toupee , was standing at the back of the group , his bald head pallid above his painted face . |
| 2 | Rodney was standing at the cooker . |
| 3 | I remember his telling us how the first time he encountered stress incontinence was as a young boy standing at the foot of the ladder while a little old country woman handed him down apples from the tree . |
| 4 | The cows were standing at the entrance to a small byre , while the farmer poured a purple fluid from a bucket into their wounds . |
| 5 | As we swung past the farm , the farmer , no doubt attracted by the sound of bagpipes , was standing at the entrance to his farm , a bewildered look on his face . |
| 6 | An Officer is standing at the entrance and directing the units to certain parts of the farm ; he has a strong Scottish accent . |
| 7 | By long history the Bishop of Durham had the privilege of standing at the right hand of the sovereign throughout the coronation as her chief supporter . |
| 8 | If you go to one of their gigs , you will see row upon row of A&R men standing at the back in their black leather jackets , all ready to make an offer to record the band . |
| 9 | I remember standing at the back of The Lyceum and looking down at the crowd . |
| 10 | And thus it was , that February evening , that she came to be standing at the top of the monumental sweep of the staircase , under the huge doorway , pausing for a moment , offering tribute to herself and all her gods . |
| 11 | And thus it was that she came to be , that February evening , standing at the top of the tower block staircase , leaning against the wall and panting a little from her climb , pausing for a moment and thinking gloomy thoughts about life and death . |
| 12 | He was standing at the open window in his pyjamas , the shotgun in his hand , staring out at the front field where the black splash of a jackdaw lay on the white ground beneath the ash tree . |
| 13 | But the good-night was not as definite as it sounded and Fritz , cowed though he was , knew it and walked with Erika to her bus-stop and waited with her in the cold until the bus did trundle along , and even then he made an attempt to get on it with her , a ploy which , with a deft use of her elbow , Erika foiled , leaving him standing at the bus-stop ; a lonely rejected youth , bowed as with the sorrows of all the world — and yet irresistibly comic . |
| 14 | Between Erika and Karl , standing at the top of the steps , and the statue there was a sunken garden , its sides punctuated by slabs of concrete . |
| 15 | In the break before he actually started , I was standing at the mirror brushing my hair and he came up , took the brush out of my hand — I had very long , waist-length , peroxide blonde hair in those days — and he said , ‘ What are you doing after the show ? ' |
| 16 | I remember standing at the back of the club and just leaning against the wall and watching him . |
| 17 | Standing at the bar on this rainy Friday night in Warsaw is a tall , thin , dark-haired and rather pretty woman of about thirty , who catches my glance as Leszek Kurowski and I enter and , with a darting , fitful gesture , invites me to approach . |
| 18 | He was standing at the window of an empty compartment , laughing , as he made the gesture of slitting his throat . |
| 19 | At night the place was jumping , the whistling urinals were all occupied , and then the smell of piss and semen was the smell of ecstatic terror , for we never knew when the place would be raided by the cops , and the person standing at the next stall playing with himself might be a copper 's nark , an informer or an agent provocateur . |
| 20 | It was such a jolly little lighthouse , white , and standing at the very end of a promontory . |
| 21 | She was standing at the gas-stove , turning a plucked chicken over the flames to singe away the tiny feathers left behind in the skin . |
| 22 | Standing at the counter waiting for the coffee , he wondered how he could have let it come about , and he felt a stranger to himself . |
| 23 | She was standing at the bus station . |
| 24 | ‘ I am the Conservatives ’ Jeremy Irons , ’ he murmured as apologetically as if he were standing at the rostrum with a brand new Oscar . |
| 25 | Whatever they may have told the pollsters , there must have been countless voters who , as they finally confronted their choice , saw in their mind 's eye the image of a beaming Neil and Glenys standing at the door of Number 10 , and thought , dammit — prompting them to switch back to that decent , straightforward , reliable Mr Major . |
| 26 | They could just as easily be train spotters , standing at the end of railway platforms . |
| 27 | Bryce , Lawler , Ethel , one of the Australians and a few others were standing at the windows gazing out . |
| 28 | Immediately , the cameramen who had been standing at the sides of the rows of chairs moved , and the flash of lights and the clicks of their equipment bewildered him slightly . |
| 29 | Whereupon he tried it stante pede , shoved the stool away and played standing at the organ , at the same time working the pedal , and doing it all as if he had been practising it for several months . |
| 30 | Ten minutes later , they were standing at the window of the cutler 's shop . |