Example sentences of "as [noun prp] stood [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She walked through into the Lancaster Room again , where Phil Aldrich was still scribbling away on the hotel 's notepaper ; and for the moment ( as Sheila stood in the doorway ) looking up with his wonted patience and nodding mildly as Janet propounded her latest views on the injustice of the tour 's latest delay . |
| 2 | Later , after work , I got a pretty good look at these new pants of ours , as Tod stood before the full-length mirror unknotting the plump Windsor of his tie . |
| 3 | As Sabrina stood outside the hotel on the Place de la Gare staring up at the Cathedral 's spire silhouetted against the dark , sombre skyline , she let her thoughts drift back over the hours since their departure from New York 's John F. Kennedy Airport . |
| 4 | It looked positively eccentric as Jefferson stood alongside the hole . |
| 5 | ‘ There is another way back , ’ he said quietly as Maggie stood by the Land Rover and cast a rather fearful eye up the valley . |
| 6 | I will go so far as to concede that taken in isolation , ripped away from the defining context of humour and irony and friendship , studied in their literal or surface sense only , then , yes , the words I spoke in that room as Robert stood at the window pretending to take me seriously could be understood to mean that during the past six or seven years I had gone to bed with more than one hundred and fifty prostitutes . |
| 7 | As Harry stood on the platform a minute or so later , watching the train pull out , he could see him through the brightly lit window , still immersed in his paperback , oblivious , it seemed , to Harry 's departure . |
| 8 | He watched as Anne stood outside the house , telling Chrissie of what had happened , and he did n't like the clear signs of distress that he could see on Chrissie Stone 's pale features . |