Example sentences of "she stood at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She stood at the door and stared . |
| 2 | She stood at the door , the Doctor 's name poised on her lips , but just before she called out , something made her hesitate . |
| 3 | For a moment she stood at the door , watching it , wondering whether to answer it or not . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | While waiting for the kettle to boil , she stood at the window watching the rain . |
| 8 | Picking Gwen Bear up from the bed , and hugging the soft toy to her for comfort , she stood at the window and stared out at the cloudy night sky . |
| 9 | They stopped talking when Groa entered , and she could feel their eyes on her back as she stood at the window , watching . |
| 10 | She called again , moving out through the gate until she stood at the top of the lower garden that sloped down to the bay . |
| 11 | He went down the stairs , and she stood at the top of them screaming . |
| 12 | She stood at the foot of the staircase which led up to the tower but even Jacqueline , so well known for her early rising that her grandfather called her the Dawn Patrol , was silent . |
| 13 | She stood at the foot of the bare dunes , gripping a string bag of swimming things and a volume of Smollett . |
| 14 | She stood at the foot of the mainmast , staring up at the intricacy of the complicated tracery of sails , spars and rope . |
| 15 | Now she stood at the gate of Ten-acre Pasture , staring across the hedgetops to the control tower that jutted into the gentle landscape with angular obscenity , begging silently that when she turned the corner he would be there . |
| 16 | She stood at the bottom of the bed and reached out her hands to catch his and pull them forward . |
| 17 | She turned up when Laura was married in 1984 and she stood at the back of the church because she did not want to detract from the bride 's big day . |
| 18 | She stood at the back of the dingy room , the child close by her side , and she listened to the clerk calling out the offences — soliciting was a common phrase , but once he said ‘ Procuring of men ’ — and she noticed that the Justice hardly raised his head : ‘ One pound or one month . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | She stood at the sink , running the tap to get a glass of cold water and he stood behind her . |
| 21 | The tears had run down her face as she stood at the sink , washing up after tea . |
| 22 | Anna was in the kitchen preparing vegetables , and from where she stood at the sink she could look across the water to Falmouth , a few hundred yards away : the Greenbank Hotel , the Royal Yacht Club , the new flats on the Packet Quays , then the backs of High Street and the pier . |
| 23 | She stood at the drying frame with her box of pegs and her tub of washing . |
| 24 | Climbing from the warm bed , she stood at the side for a moment to stare down at him . |
| 25 | Ilse Huber recognized him at once from his file photo as she stood at the barrier beside the security police . |
| 26 | It was after eight-thirty and in a few minutes the family would sit down to eat while she stood at the end of the table , still working . |
| 27 | She stood at the end of Sarah 's bed , all eighteen stone of her . |
| 28 | Now Sam looked at his wife as she stood at the end of the long , dark-panelled bedroom , her back to the window , beyond which olive trees rustled in a hot breeze . |
| 29 | She stood at the front of the plane and watched the passengers carefully . |
| 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 . |