Example sentences of "stand [adv prt] [adv] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Yes , yes well we ca n't talk you see , we do n't know , we do n't know what 's happening , but she 's been suffering a lot with her back just now and she put that off you know that because she 's not attending the meetings , she ca n't sit , and if she comes to the meetings she ca n't sit down , she stands up , props herself against the wall and stand up right at the back so , we do n't know you see |
2 | Dark , olive-tinged skin , with a hint of almost Mediterranean swarthiness … thick , dark hair , straight and standing up slightly at the front , swept back and cut short round the ears … a long , wide , ‘ boxer 's ’ sort of nose . |
3 | I can remember the long cloudless days when we drove for mile after mile over desert that stretched out around us as flatly as an unruffled sea ; the way we would pull the throttle out so that the needle stood up straight at the figure forty , and then would laze back with our legs stretched out across the bonnet … . |
4 | It was that young fool of a student Bacci , who stood up stiffly at the sight of the Marshal who had witnessed his first embarrassingly unsuccessful attempt at being a policeman . |
5 | They stood about deferentially at the back of the little chapel , not wishing to intrude on the privacy of the family 's mourning . |