Example sentences of "stand up for [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Labour must , once again , be the party that stands up for the individual against the vested interests that hold him or her back …
2 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 .
3 If the choice now is between shoring up a democratically bankrupt Westminster or standing up for the restoration of Scottish democracy , then I am for Scottish democracy .
4 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 .
5 I stood up for a gasp of air , ducked down again , searching with fingers , with feet , with urgency turning to appalling alarm .
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