I. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a regular/standing army (= permanent and existing whether there is a war or not )
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The regular army has about 5,000 troops.
a sitting/kneeling/standing position
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The priest rose from his kneeling position by the bed.
a standing committee (= a permanent one )
an open/standing invitation (= an invitation to do something at any time you like )
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Phillip kindly gave me an open invitation to stay at his villa in Tuscany.
sb’s standing in the polls (= how popular a poll shows them to be )
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The President's standing in the polls declined sharply.
standing in a line
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The four men were standing in a line on the other side of the table.
standing in the doorway
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There was Paolo, standing in the doorway .
standing order
standing ovation (= everyone stood up )
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The Chancellor’s entrance was greeted with a standing ovation .
standing room only (= no seats were left )
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There was standing room only in the courthouse.
standing room
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There was standing room only no seats were left in the courthouse.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
charge
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Budgeting Loans are repayable and are not available to help towards mains fuel consumption and standing charges .
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South West Water, for instance, has the highest standing charges in the country.
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Will he take steps to abolish standing charges or is he the Scrooge of the 1990s?
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According to market researcher Datamonitor, 3 million people cut up their credit cards in 1991 when standing charges were introduced.
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For consumers who use 1,000 units or less a new tariff is introduced, with no standing charge .
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A new tariff for low electricity users will also be introduced which has no standing charge .
committee
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In the same period the power of standing committee chairmen was further eroded by the institutionalization and proliferation of sub-committees.
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It consisted of 148 standing committees and 313 adhoc committees.
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Committees are of two kinds, standing committees and all other committees.
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It then enters the committee stage, when standing committees within the House scrutinize the bill.
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It will contain details of the work of the standing committees of the Bar Council together with other financial and statistical data.
ovation
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And by now, every point won by Forget received a wild, standing ovation .
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Administrator Michael Barnes was given a standing ovation after addressing the audience.
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There were more standing ovations than I've ever heard.
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A blonde Tory had stripped and received a standing ovation from a minority of her audience.
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The delegates accorded Ciaran Ryan a standing ovation .....
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After the concert she had to wait for four minutes before McCartney could rejoin her ... while he accepted a standing ovation .
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As he fell, a smoking black handprint on his chest, he heard the standing ovation building.
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In the end, Linfield left the pitch to a standing ovation from the Windsor faithful.
position
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Once a standing position has been attained, the face above will come as a blessed relief!
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Or try working in a standing position .
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When they had left the cinema, they found it had been raining so Yanto decided the standing position would be favourite.
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Assume a kneeling position and then put one foot in front of the other to come back into a standing position.
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In the water, she rolls into a standing position , still in the star shape, and opens her legs wide.
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With this foot and all the solidity and strength of her right leg she levered herself into a standing position .
room
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In fact, it's standing room only even for fish fingers.
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The last time I travelled on it there was standing room only.
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In addition there was standing room for 1,000.
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Unlike the human case, however, there seem to be no limiting factors such as food supply or standing room .
stone
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The standing stone rose white in the darkness.
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There are also churches built on pagan sites which have standing stones in the churchyard.
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From here she could see to the house, the standing stone between like a lightning.
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Each standing stone collects the raw power and channels it to its inward neighbour.
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There's speculation about the connections between the standing stones and the mounds in the area.
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Hollowed out mid-way was a small chamber which contained seven standing stones , now clamped to the walls with metal hoops.
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The earliest settlers left behind them a remarkable array of monuments: standing stones , burial chambers, villages and brochs.
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She walked back over to the standing stones and leant her forehead against one of them.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
leave sb/sth standing
sb can do sth standing on their head
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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He pulled himself up very slowly to a standing position.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And by now, every point won by Forget received a wild, standing ovation.
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Everyone will, as per standing Union agreements, receive outplacement counselling, redundancy payments.
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There were more standing ovations than I've ever heard.
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With a standing order you tell your branch exactly how much is to be paid and when.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
financial
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Promissory notes and bills of exchange are often guaranteed or endorsed by a third party of financial standing .
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Clearly the financial standing of the drawer and drawee are important in determining the rate of discount.
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Reports on the financial standing and integrity of individuals and businesses abroad and suggested credit limits.
free
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The modules can be offered as free standing courses, or linked together or with other modules in integrated programmes.
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Inner: once erected the inner is a free standing unit.
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Ornament taken: Thieves stole a £70 free standing stone ornament from a garden at a house in Brompton Road, Northallerton.
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Potterton free standing gas central heating boiler.
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Inner: spacious inner with a good amount of height which makes a free standing dome before the fly is fitted.
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Case study. Free standing units offer valuable review and new language in highly professional settings.
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Union Carbide is to spin off its industrial gases business to form a free standing company.
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Beds on cruise ships may either be free standing or bunk beds. g. Will there be self service at mealtimes?
high
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Again the same point emerges: high social standing and systematic training did not mix.
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The parson's high social standing in the community remained until recent times.
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The annual conference is held in September on a particular theme, and attracts participants of high international standing .
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And it looks like maintaining its high standing for years to come.
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All of us there were so stunned that a man of such high standing in the golf world could be so uncaring.
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Mathematics journals had the highest standing internationally, with nearly a third of contributions coming from abroad.
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It is also possible for research students to transfer from one degree to another research degree of a higher standing .
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The latter must have adequate experience of such lending techniques and high standing in the international banking community.
international
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The annual conference is held in September on a particular theme, and attracts participants of high international standing .
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He had indeed returned the nation to a semblance of domestic normality and international standing .
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An enfeebled Lloyd's would harm the City of London's international standing .
left
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There had been half a dozen bottles of red wine left standing in a corner of the huge kitchen hearth.
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An inefficient lift pump can often take several revolutions of the engine if hot and left standing for a short time.
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It must be because they are historic that they have been left standing .
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I stayed in the one house left standing , a guest house in a ghost town of cracked jambs and gaping doorways.
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Sister came out and took charge, and Juliet was left standing outside, wondering who she could ask.
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I was just left standing on the street corner, microphone in hand.
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Passengers were left standing on the pavement at 8.30 am while police led him away.
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By now the only part of Mr. Rainsford's brewery left standing was the taproom kept for luck like an old horseshoe.
long
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Indeed, perhaps inimical to ours, in view of the hostility of such long standing between man and rat.
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The institution of bishops he defends as convenient and of long standing , rather than as based on Apostolic succession.
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This act brought to a head problems of long standing whose roots were to be found in two factors.
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Social institutions of long standing sustain their own value systems.
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Robert Bouchère is another of her friends of long standing .
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First, respondents are asked if they have any long standing illness, disability or infirmity.
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This is referred to as long standing limiting illness.
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Autnomic neuropathy is a frequent complication of long standing diabetes mellitus.
social
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Again the same point emerges: high social standing and systematic training did not mix.
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In many similar households, sons of some social prestige and standing were at least nominally subject to their fathers' authority.
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Generally the social standing of female Guardians was higher than male Guardians.
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The parson's high social standing in the community remained until recent times.
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In practice, however, issues such as the colour and social standing of the victim will also play a major part.
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In return Hubert gave her security, pleasant surroundings, a degree of social standing and, of course, the twins.
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The other system stressed that alliances could be maintained by remarriage and could be used to improve social standing .
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The social standing enjoyed by doctors is of course formidably high.
young
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He could see a woman holding a young baby standing at the end of the hall.
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There was a young man standing in the porch and looking around him.
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A little way along there was a young man standing between two stalls with a tray suspended by a strap around his neck.
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Gaveston looked at the young page boy standing near him, a goblet of wine in his small white hands.
■ NOUN
army
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Armed forces: No standing army since 1868; citizens under 60 liable to military service in emergency.
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With over a third of the standing army enrolled in the colonies, the situation became dangerous and Nicholas phased them out.
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Of about forty tracts on the standing army issue, only one was written by an identifiable Tory.
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In the first place, the creation of a regular standing army marked a qualitative change in the authority of the monarchy.
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Success depended upon discovering ways to supply the standing army .
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With no standing army the Crown did not require any equivalent military body.
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The case for following the Western example of reducing the costly standing army by building a reserve of trained men became incontrovertible.
committee
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Elections happen every year, yes, but it's always the standing committee that gets elected.
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A standing committee was set up to co-ordinate the international relief effort.
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Operating as a standing committee of Council, its membership comprises: Two members nominated from each of the 22 district societies.
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Yao Yilin and Song Ping, both hardline conservatives, were removed from the standing committee .
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The majority of members serving on the Association's various standing committees are elected from the representatives on the council.
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Hu had served on the politburo standing committee and secretariat.
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A detailed clause by clause analysis of the Bill by a standing committee of between 1-50 M.P.s.
figure
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Just outside the cage, there seemed to be a figure standing and watching them.
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Only as the car approached them did Ludens think he glimpsed a figure standing in the shade under a tree.
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But there was a figure standing there.
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Jessamy opened her eyes, then swiftly closed them again as she saw his tall figure standing there.
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A solitary figure standing there in a trench coat under one of the street lamps?
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Her eyes lifted from the books before her on the desk to the tall, powerful figure standing just a few feet away.
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There was a figure standing in the corner by an open window.
man
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I looked in the same direction and saw a group of men standing and staring at us.
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We had observed a uniformed man standing there, on the inside.
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There was a young man standing in the porch and looking around him.
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Had Charles Sunderby imagined it, or had he really seen the figure of a man standing frozen at the wheel?
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The man standing before her had earlier been on his knees on the opposite side from the woman.
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A movement caught his eye and he looked back at the man standing on the steps of the rear coach.
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There was a man standing over the patient looking down at the face completely encased in bandages.
ovation
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Outspoken speeches were given which received spontaneous standing ovations .
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Only when the inevitable standing ovation was over, and their work was done in the conference hall, could they relax.
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A packed Hall of graduates and undergraduates gave Baroness Park an affectionate standing ovation at the end of her after dinner speech.
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After 29 songs, he earned a rather subdued standing ovation .
stone
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Ornament taken: Thieves stole a £70 free standing stone ornament from a garden at a house in Brompton Road, Northallerton.
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The strange standing stones , remnants of a burial chamber, are said to house an invisible living occupant - Wayland.
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In addition to the circle, there was the King Stone standing stone and the Whispering Knights, a dolmen in close proximity.
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A circle of standing stones ringed the open space, ancient and mysterious.
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In their places were great standing stones , tall and thin and pointing for ever to the sky.
woman
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She reminded Bowring of a streetwalker in some film, that image of a woman standing under a lamp surrounded by darkness.
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There was a woman standing beside Mahmoud.
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He'd tried to hurry Eloise away, to sidetrack the woman standing in their path.
■ VERB
enhance
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This may have been coincidence or, as we noted earlier, a deliberate ploy to enhance his own standing .
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Yet far from ruining the reputation of Camilla, the claims seemed only to enhance her standing within royal circles.
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Some Members have claimed that the coverage the committees have received has enhanced their standing and authority.
find
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Early this morning she woke to find a masked gang standing in her bedroom.
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I opened the door to find Mrs Puri standing to attention outside.
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Seb opened the door to find Melody standing outside in the darkness.
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They broke into a trot and found Mary standing in the middle of a thicket.
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She looked up slowly, dully, to find a tiny lass standing by her, silently beckoning.
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He said nothing as he found her standing on the pier, but accepted her silent invitation to walk.
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I whipped the key out and turned to run through the Square only to find Shifty-Eyes standing blocking the pavement.
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When she got back, she found William standing by the open door of the fire escape.
improve
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The other system stressed that alliances could be maintained by remarriage and could be used to improve social standing .
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Bishop Auckland have also moved heaven and earth to improve their standing .
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Chemicals and pharmaceuticals, for example, have improved their standing against other companies in the top 200.
leave
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Some are slow, leaving you standing , resigned, up an avenue where no one you know stays.
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Bidding her wait, he left her standing while he walked slowly to the car and inspected it.
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He went, leaving the door standing open.
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He left her standing by the bank of lockers, and headed back toward the door.
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And how dared he leave her standing out here in the bailey like a ... like a serf?
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Her skirt dropped, leaving her standing in petticoat shreds.
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I still have an abundance of energy that leaves my contemporaries standing .
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Without her even being aware of it he had somehow moved into the cabin, leaving her standing at the open door.
remain
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Theodora remained standing , polishing her reading glasses vigorously.
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The lumps of stonework that had remained standing now crumbled.
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She remained standing , evidently not very sure how to begin.
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Then the gunman slumped, and Ellis remained standing , and she realised that the shot had missed.
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For a moment Geoffrey's poor twisted, now virtually headless, body remained standing .
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Romanov remained standing while he took in the room.
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Only those convicted of criminal offences and President Ibrahim Babangida himself remain banned from standing in the elections.
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Gabriel remained standing at the top of the steps: Garvey told him to do so.
see
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I saw another soldier standing behind him.
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She hurried downstairs and saw Sam Morgan standing beside the van, smiling at her encouragingly.
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It was the first time Jess had been aware of seeing her standing .
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When she opened her eyes and saw Patrick standing in the room she started up with a cry.
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Once she looked round and saw the driver standing , his back to her, leaning against the van.
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So near that, had he glanced sideways, he would have been bound to see her standing with Thomas.
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He saw Donald standing over him, a can of beans in his hand.
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Who was the tall man I had seen standing against the moon?
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a man of standing and wealth
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Graduates from certain colleges have a lower standing in the eyes of employers.
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Jacques Tati was a man of international standing in the world of screen comedy.
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Japan wants a U.N. Security Council seat, to match the country's international standing .
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Stefano's standing as an artist has improved over the past few years.
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TBS has maintained its standing among the top four cable stations.
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The class system in Great Britain encourages people to be very aware of their social standing .
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This legal case is very likely to damage the company's professional standing .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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You don't have to jeopardize your standing in the staffroom.