The guests sat on chairs, sofas, the floor and the staircase, or simply stood.

The room rose again as the guests stood and raised their glasses in salute.

On one particularly fine evening, all the guests stood outside after dinner.

The guests on the top level could not escape and stood panicked in the windows.

Other guests stood about, conversing and waiting for dinner to be announced.

The guests, huddled in the rear end of the room, were standing fearful.

The few guests that remained stood about in small, shocked groups.

He looked over the diagrams in silence for a few minutes while his guest stood to look out the window.

The idea is this: guests should stand no more than five minutes without being offered a tray of drinks.

But he was afraid of a thousand things, and his guest stood at the top of the list.