Sentence examples for pilot stands from inspiring English sources

Today a big, echoing 1930s pub, the British Pilot, stands at the end of a cul-de-sac, beyond which is a park of holiday chalets and a sea wall with views across the estuary to Southend.

Even in the unlikely surroundings of a crowded restaurant in Yorkshire, in northern England, this former test pilot stands out – an alpha male holding court, surrounded by a group of admirers eagerly hanging on his every word.

James Collins, 54, also a pilot, stood on the ground listening to his mother as she prepared to land the plane.

WASHINGTON — In their first African venture together in 2006, the future president and the former fighter pilot stood in what had been Nelson Mandela's jail cell on Robben Island, once an international symbol of oppression.

The pilot stood and I followed him to a public bathroom.

Among insurers, Jefferson-Pilot stands out because of its strong sales force, says Charles Allmon, editor of the Growth Stock Outlook newsletter.

Six paraglider pilots stood still as the accelerating wind rippled their multicoloured wings.

Bathing beauties stand in line, sailors, soldiers and pilots stand to attention, factory and office workers gather en masse outside their workplaces.

Should the tank you're piloting stand still for an instant (it will, because Kinect is so grindingly imprecise) it gets blown to bits.

The pilots stand front and center, as trim and trig as pilots of the air — John Dugger, from Collierville, Tennessee (the ship's home port is Memphis), and Jorge Cano, a local "contact pilot," who is here to help the regular pilots sense the shoals of the Atchafalaya.

The pilots stood little chance.