Sentence examples for first stood on from inspiring English sources

I first stood on the shore of the Arctic Ocean in 1979.

Cunningham, a boxing trainer and former narcotics detective, first stood on these steps 15 years ago and had a grin on his face as he spoke.

In 1945, when he first stood on the stage at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville and played banjo the way no one had ever heard before, the audience responded with shouts, whoops, and ovations.

He was 2 years old when he first stood on a chair to sing at a storefront Holiness church, and with his mother's encouragement he often attended church seven days a week.

EVEN now, nearly four years after I first stood on its shores, Lago Todos los Santos, abutting the foothills of the Andes in southern Chile, sometimes invades my dreams.

Sir Elton, who took over as chairman in 1976, said he first stood on the terraces at the club at the age of six.

The tube is democracy in action, a function of consent: people let the passengers off first, stand on the right, move down along the cars.

Whoever is up and out first stands on the front lawn and peeks down the street at the Hudson River, a glimmer of blue just visible through the trees, to report back conditions with nautical precision.

A third stood on the scorer's table, egging on a howling crowd at the Cintas Center in Cincinnati.

George IV – played as stupid and extravagant by Hugh Laurie in Blackadder the Third – stands on the north-east plinth.

Cooke believes that the Eighth stands on its own, between the middle and final periods.