Example sentences of "stand [adv prt] [prep] the [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The industrialist MP Samuel Morley and others persuaded him to stand down on the grounds that ministers should not directly enter the political arena and Morley paid all his expenses when he gave up the contest . |
| 2 | The ferry was not big , but she dwarfed the harbour — she had to stand off from the jetty and land us by boat — and indeed the village . |
| 3 | It is a small but spread-out , almost incoherent town , the pleasantest part of which stands up above the river and has a row of modest hotels . |
| 4 | HP 's software effort for the new servers included endorsement from a veritable who's-who of mainframe software houses , all eager to stand up on the platform and say that their customers were queueing up to leave the IBM mainframe world behind . |
| 5 | He was about to stand up to the policeman when Duncan spoke . |
| 6 | The problem is to develop a device which as well as demonstrating a high degree of efficiency in converting wave energy into electricity , is also robust enough to stand up to the buffeting and corrosion of the sea . |
| 7 | She was trying to stand up in the pool but could n't because of the costume . |
| 8 | They ease gently , throbbingly through ‘ Kinky Afro ’ , but ‘ Loose Fit ’ stands out as the song that suits their current mood exactly ; slinky , elastic , swaying with a sexy guitar , it 's effortlessly groovy . |
| 9 | Therefore we er we needed to do something that stands out from the crowd if you like to bring this to people 's attention . |
| 10 | It was better to stand out at the beginning than to go in with the expectation that he would soon have to provoke a further crisis by resignation . |
| 11 | If we want to have that freedom again — to stand out against the trend and , if necessary , to be on our own — then I pray that the Government will look hard at the question of retaining the right of a single foreign policy , with the decisions made by this country alone . |
| 12 | By reacting in this way , Jane is able to stand back from the situation and it can not hurt her as it used to do . |
| 13 | ‘ Working with Tracey is much easier than a group because you would have to stand around in the group and not get a chance of doing things . |
| 14 | He had no time to stand about in the theatre if it did not deliver . |
| 15 | The individual who 's gon na be assertive is likely to be open and honest or likely to admit things that are not so good at honest those , but they 're not gon na necessarily apologise for those , they 're gon na treat those as statements of fact and they 're certainly gon na try and involve other people and actually say what do you think this , what are some ways forward er but it does n't mean that they 're gon na be walked all over and they still stand up for the things that they firmly believe in . |
| 16 | and stand up on the pedals as I passed |
| 17 | Stand back from the house and observe the roof and gutters through binoculars . |
| 18 | Two other specialized functions , those of religion and industry , stand out from the mass and not surprisingly numerous settlements throughout the empire can be shown to have developed around important sanctuaries or centres of manufacturing and extraction . |
| 19 | Can certain individuals be directed in such a way that they stand out from the mass because they are the tellers of the story , the chief exponents in the drama or theme ? |
| 20 | We all like to think we stand out from the crowd and , in the past , the face has been seen as the key to unlocking our identity . |
| 21 | Every now and then one of them would stand up on the sofa and trample restlessly round like a dog resettling itself into its sleeping place . |
| 22 | He wore a rich robe so encrusted with precious metals and stones that I wondered if he could stand up under the weight And his eyes were tiny , wet and somehow avid as he looked me over — wholly ignoring Mala — from head to foot . |
| 23 | It will follow that , unless they have been sunk into prepared grooves , the horizontal cords will stand out on the spine as pronounced ridges , and the leather or other covering will have to be moulded or ‘ nipped ’ over them . |
| 24 | Erm the actual post I liked , I 'm glad it 's standing up above the horizon because at least that way , you know , i it does it 's given some dominance in the picture . |
| 25 | That can often mean standing up for the client and criticising the system , ’ he says . |
| 26 | It involves one of the few regulators that have shown some teeth in standing up to the powers that have been conferred by the Government on privatised British Gas . |
| 27 | The CIT 's members are standing up to the recession and keeping close to their customers and associates . |
| 28 | Like I see her standing up in the toilet and I thought your hair looks nice in n it ? |
| 29 | There were no chairs or tables in the kitchens , so we ate it standing up around the cookers and stoves . |
| 30 | ‘ Oh , dear me , ’ he said , standing back from the window and dusting himself down , wiping his face with a handkerchief . |