Example sentences of "stand [conj] [vb past] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When a few minutes later , amid the oohs and aahs from the three women , she stood and looked at the person staring back at her from the long mirror , she could n't believe it was herself . |
| 2 | Beuno stood and looked at the blaze he had made . |
| 3 | He stood and looked at the piano . |
| 4 | The men stood and stared at the abandoned Glory for what seemed like hours . |
| 5 | Ellen , usually so quick with a scornful reply , just stood and stared at the elegant stranger who stopped one pace away from her , took her hand , then bowed above her fingers . |
| 6 | Ted stood and stared at the apparition in amazement , unable to believe the sight of his old friend before his eyes . |
| 7 | He had completed another revolution of the prescribed path , and the man still stood and stared at the fences , and his shoulders were not hunched as if the cold no longer concerned him . |
| 8 | It was too late to save the rick , so for a few minutes he stood and stared at the flames . |
| 9 | Carter dealt out the oxygen cylinders while Ralph stood and stared at the smoke billowing out of the third floor of McKay 's department store . |
| 10 | As I stood and gazed at the now empty slit trenches , I could n't help a sinking feeling in my stomach as I pictured in my mind those who had occupied the trenches in this orchard , those who had been killed or seriously wounded . |
| 11 | There were three or four cinemas round here — I stood and gazed at the pictures outside and thought , ‘ Space , cowboys and sex . |