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Discover LudwigThe phrase "as she stood there" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a moment when a female character is in a stationary position, often conveying emotion or contemplation.
Example: "As she stood there, the weight of her decision began to sink in."
Alternatives: "while she remained there" or "as she lingered there".
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"As she stood there, the sky darkened".
As she stood there, her sons looked at their sign.
It surprised her, all these thoughts running through her head as she stood there, reading the postcard.
As she stood there, barely clapping, as if in a trance, I could see her cheek was bathed with tears.
She often asked my brother or me to help her, dialling the number and speaking for her as she stood there, watching every word.
"I fell in love at first sight as she stood there," he writes, "both inside and outside, inhaling contradiction and breathing out ambivalence".
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The light seems frozen in a day that lasts for ever, as she stands there reading and rereading.
As she stands there, in the hour before dawn, she watches her outfits – the outward symbols of her false self – disappear into the dark heart of Manhattan.
And as she stands there it comes to her that there is, in fact, something cheap about it: an old-fashioned, fairgroundish trickery.
As she stands there on the windswept peak an earsplitting screech of escaping gas makes us both jump back, then holding our hands on our chests laugh nervously.
It's not an insult, not treachery to suggest that, for the monarch, even his own beloved Infanta is a remote and distant creature, frightened when he approaches as she stands there so formal, so conscious of the need to get things right, to please him.
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