Example sentences of "be stand [adv] for [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 're stood up for a number of offenses , the first of which is that on the twenty first of June nineteen eighty eight you , on the public road way in Accrington Road Worley used the mechanics of the vehicle when there was an excise licence in force , it 's an offence of the vehicles excise act in nineteen seventy one . |
| 2 | But you 've got to practice with me to get the movements right so I 'm to stand in for the swan . ’ |
| 3 | I should have thought that hon. Members would have got behind the work of the regulators , who are standing up for the interests of the customer . |
| 4 | said I 've got a guy that 's been stood here for an hour , do n't know what to do with him . . |
| 5 | John Thorn , who makes red boxes for ministers , is standing by for a rash of orders . |
| 6 | Lower bruised his left leg and was stood down for the rest of the afternoon by the course doctors . |