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Example sentences for "standing before"

  • I can't see what right you have to interfere," she breaks out suddenly, standing before him, wilful but lovely.

  • Standing before it, she surveys herself leisurely from head to foot, and then she smiles.

  • Portrait of George Morland, full length, standing before a fireplace in a well-appointed apartment.

  • This thy wife, or rather thy handmaid, awaiteth thy kind regard, and is standing before thee: then graciously bestow on her one glance; for the posture hath become painful to her.

  • Sir Christopher has just gone through an exaggerated resume of old Slyme's disgraceful conduct last night, when the door is opened, and they all become aware that the hero of the story is standing before them.

  • And she herself; she is standing before him, her rich satin gown trailing on the green grass, her face pale, her eyes large and mournful.

  • Karl," said Braesig, standing before him, "have you collected yourself?

  • Then Huetzin, standing before them in his robe of tattered and blood-stained nequen, told, in the simple language with which oratory is made most effective, his story of the past year.

  • A year ago would she have been standing before him, looking at him as she is looking now with this ineffable passion in her gaze whilst he stood too?

  • She gets up, and, standing before a glass, arranges her hair and presses her eyebrows into shape.

  • Do you realise who is standing before you?


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    about eighteen; also much; ascended the; equal voice; good garden; good ground; hard life; people are; should arrive; should speak; silk dress; standing armies; standing before; standing committee; standing committees; standing here; standing order; standing position; standing still; standing there; standing upon; standing water; strange kind; true philosophy; walked together; you know nothing about