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was and standing
A man was standing in the open door of the lighted orderly room a few yards to Mike's left, but he, too, suddenly made up his mind and went racing to join the confused activity at the east end of the stockade.
She was standing in a thick grove.
She was standing with her back to the glass door.
I was standing beside her, watching the outspread palms and wondering about the old horsehair sofa against the wall on which he sometimes napped.
`` The equipment was fine '', Rob stated, standing up.
He recalled that in California after a critic had attacked him for `` still trying to sell Bruckner to the Americans '', the public's response at the next concert was a standing ovation.
Backstairs, the maids cried a little over that, and the standing invitation was not mentioned to Mrs. Coolidge.
At Camp Taylor in Kentucky a barracks was built in an hour and a half from timber that had been standing in Mississippi forests one week before.
Far away, standing before a curtained window in the study room, was his father, hands tucked under his coattails, and staring into the dark church.
Rousseau was aware that he must seem like a hypocrite, standing there and arguing that he could not possibly permit a public performance.
He worked standing, with his left hand in his pocket as though he were merely stopping for a moment, sketching with the surprised stare of one who was watching another person's hand.
And she was made to fall in love with him again there in the rutted dirt driveway standing in the cold fog, mad as she was at his going away when he really didn't have to, mad at their both having got older in a life that seemed to have taken no more than a week to go by.
He was standing in front of the mirror, tightening his tie.
In the living room, Miss Ada was standing by the window with a sheaf of lists in her hand.
At the same time he watched carefully to see how one attached pegboards to stone walls, but Mr. Blatz was usually standing in his line of vision and it all seemed so simple that he didn't like to disclose his ignorance.
As usual, Mrs. Crombie was standing in the midst of a confusion of cooking utensils.
but a few seconds later she was standing directly across the room from me, looking me in the eyes and saying in a scathingly condemnatory tone, `` Your father despises you ''!!
I was at least conscious of the distinction in my full Yokuts presentation that awaits publication, in which, in listing ' Two-Stem Meanings ', I set off by asterisks those forms in which N of stem B was Af of stem A/3, the unasterisked ones standing for Af ; ;
She was standing on a flat rock three feet above ground and when she saw him she rose to full height and roared, opening her mouth wide, lashing her tail, and stamping at the rock with both forefeet in irritation, as much as to say: `` How dare you disturb me in my sacred precinct ''??
He was standing at the end of the bar enjoying a slug of cognac when Rourke came in six or eight minutes later.
There was no use in standing there in the drizzle, trying to find a link between Emile's murder and opium in a cup of coffee.
Rocco Vecchio -- a perspiring, haggard Vecchio -- was standing there, flanked by two men in the uniforms of armored transport guards.

was and there
The easiest thing would be to sell out to Al Budd and leave the country, but there was a stubborn streak in him that wouldn't allow it.
Both had blonde hair and blue eyes, and there was even a faint similarity of features.
They might kill him in his sleep, thinking there was money in the house.
He was thinking of Rittenhouse and how he had left him there, to rock to death on the porch of the Splendide.
Someone evidently was on duty there.
there was no doubt he was dying.
The coyote was calling again, and he hoped that this time there would be no other sounds to interrupt it.
Well, the grass was there, though in some places the ground was too steep for a cow to get to it.
The water was there, so much of it that it spread all through the dead orchard.
And there was a house ; ;
But there was water.
Yes, there was plenty of water, too much, and that was probably the trouble.
He had looked over my forms and was impressed by what he had seen there ; ;
It was there that she would have to enact her renunciation, beg forgiveness.
Unconcerned, indifferent, unmotivated, the forest was simply there -- fighting man's depredations with more abundant growth and man's follies with its own musical evening laughter.
But she'd known plenty of handsomer guys, and, conceding his good looks, what was there left??
He himself had heard that there was gangster money in the company, but that had nothing to do with him.
And then there was a numbing blow to the heart, and another gut-flattening blow to the stomach
No man laid a hand on him, but the threat of violence was there.
Prosecutor Baird immediately assumed he was hiding out there after the shooting and began preparing an indictment.
Again he stood in the darkness listening, but there was only the scrape of a shod hoof on a plank floor.
Seeing them waiting there at the foot of Emigrant Rock was so overwhelming that, for a good minute after they rounded the bend and started down the grade leading toward them, Matilda could not speak at all.

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