Example sentences of "stand [adv] for [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At first he was asked to stand literally for a couple of seconds before being praised and asked to walk on . |
| 2 | We are able to stand down for a while in the evening to get some sleep , write letters , play darts or watch TV . |
| 3 | FORMER Liberal leader Sir David Steel yesterday urged Labour to stand down for the Liberal-Democrats in seats they can not win at the next Election . |
| 4 | His counterpart in ‘ Pride and Prejudice ’ — George Wickham — stands also for the rejection of society 's standards , but he turns out to be a rake and a liar — a totally unsuitable match for any of the Longbourne girls . |
| 5 | Labour must , once again , be the party that stands up for the individual against the vested interests that hold him or her back … |
| 6 | He also points out that the expedition led by himself and Clark had assembled ‘ the best people , worldwide , and the top people ca n't afford to stand around for a couple of years waiting for research to happen ’ . |
| 7 | He also points out that the expedition led by himself and Clark had assembled ‘ the best people , worldwide , and the top people ca n't afford to stand around for a couple of years waiting for research to happen ’ . |
| 8 | Stand by for the campaign against cruelty to teddies ! |
| 9 | But the book 's publishers should be warned : if searches for extraterrestrial intelligence ever pay off , then stand by for an avalanche of orders from interested parties . |
| 10 | Again , the vice chancellor is nominally a deputy to the chancellor , but in reality is the chief academic and administrative officer of a university , in charge of its day-to-day running ( though he or she does also stand in for the chancellor on ceremonial occasions ) . |
| 11 | Did you know Jehovah 's organizations always changes , not with it , but to combat it that way it comes to work , it keeps us alive , it keeps us on our toes , and so we could go on and on in saying well look keep away , stay awake and do everything that we should and , and we can stand here for the rest of the talk saying well do it , do it , do it but that 's easy for me to do that is n't it ? |
| 12 | The chief academic and administrative officer of a Scottish university , he or she is usually styled ‘ principal and vice chancellor ’ , the latter title used when standing in for the chancellor on ceremonial occasions . |
| 13 | The you so pointedly admonished is the addressee of the poem , Torquatus , a representative Roman , fictionally standing in for the reader at large . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | John Thorn , who makes red boxes for ministers , is standing by for a rash of orders . |
| 17 | Last night Schools Minister Michael Fallon , standing again for the Tories in Darlington , warned that meddling with the CTCs would be ‘ a disaster . ’ |
| 18 | Lower bruised his left leg and was stood down for the rest of the afternoon by the course doctors . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Barrio had stood unsuccessfully for the governorship of Chihuahua in 1986 , and claimed that Fernando Baeza Melendez of the PRI had won that election fraudulently . |
| 21 | I must have stood there for a couple of hours , getting more and more fed up as my imagination worked overtime . |
| 22 | They stood together for a moment in the doorway , linking arms proudly . |
| 23 | I stood up for a gasp of air , ducked down again , searching with fingers , with feet , with urgency turning to appalling alarm . |
| 24 | They stood then for a moment in mutual silence and surprise , rather as Sophia and Rupert had stood on Ianthe 's doorstep , or like two strange cats meeting each other for the first time . |
| 25 | I stood there for a while in the damp grey afternoon and whispered : ‘ Godspeed . ’ |
| 26 | Adam closed the front door and stood there for a moment as if he could not wrench himself away . |
| 27 | They stood there for a moment without speaking . |
| 28 | She stood there for a moment in confusion , the lantern in her hand shedding a golden light on the creamy folds of her dress where the dark fur had fallen open over it , her hand to her eyes , shading them against the lantern light , her brow creased with puzzlement . |