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Example sentences of "stood [prep] a [det] [noun] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	I replaced the blanket over his head and stood for a few moments looking at the bodies in their neat little rows .
2	Mark stood for a few moments at the corner of Parliament Street and Bridge Street .
3	He stood for a few moments thinking , and looking apprehensively from one stallion to the other .
4	They stood for a few moments in shy silence , staring from one to another .
5	She stood for a few moments catching her breath , then continued through to the kitchen .
6	Melissa found its clean , uncluttered lines at once calming and uplifting , and she stood for a few moments just inside the door , absorbing the tranquil atmosphere .
7	She put away the car , quietly locked the garage door and stood for a few moments looking out over the valley .
8	Morse and Max stood for a few moments silently just outside the front door of the Kemp residence .
9	K. Peacock , of Belgrave Terrace , Hurworth Place , Darlington , remembers the whole class stood for a few minutes ' silence when told the news at Queen Elizabeth Grammar School .
10	She barely noticed it at all as she stood for a few seconds in front of the mirror and pulled the comb through her hair .
11	Climbing out , stood for a few seconds to let his eyes adjust to the pale moonlight , then he stepped through the gap and began to pick his way carefully down the uneven terrain of the slope , towards the crashed car below .
12	John stood for a few seconds contemplating the receding lights of the tanker , he dropped the revs on the engine then settled himself .
13	The decapitated head spun like a ball in the air , lips still moving ; his trunk stood for a few seconds in its own fountain of hot red gore before crashing on to the blood-stained ice .
14	Similarly , the clock on the front of the American Bulletin of Atomic Scientists stood at a few minutes to midnight , but the American government did not heed it .