Example sentences of "stand [adv prt] and [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You know y y y y you 're a poor peasant and the Party 's coming in in conditions of civil war and we say right erm we 've got ta get land reform and the land reform process is being done , not by the Party coming in and imposing it , it is very much done by the Party encouraging and enabling the peasants to , to take the moves themselves , to stand up and begin the criticism . |
| 2 | No longer the excuse of keeping low profile actions , hoping for a Labour government because if we have n't got the guts to stand up and fight the government that made these laws , then we 've got no right to challenge a future Labour government that inherits 'em . |
| 3 | However , it is clearly impossible for us all to stand back and watch the booksellers ' position , in total terms , being undermined by some publishers ' double standards . |
| 4 | He will have little opportunity to stand back and examine the data in the cool light of the academic ‘ ivory tower ’ . |
| 5 | Then I force myself to stand back and assess the situation . |
| 6 | The need for patience and the ability to stand back and let the groups reach their own decisions became new management skills . |
| 7 | I said I do n't want and Keith says , I , I get so angry I , I stand up and give the boat such a wack |
| 8 | Alternatively , I could find Scamp myself , then stand back and let the cavalry come . |
| 9 | If we stand back and consider the structure which has resulted from the combination of primary rules of obligation with the secondary rules of recognition , change and adjudication , it is plain that we have here not only the heart of a legal system , but a most powerful tool for the analysis of much that has puzzled both the jurist and the political theorist … |
| 10 | On the command of ‘ 1-2-3 lift ’ , both helpers should stand up and carry the person to a chair or bed . |
| 11 | one is that i it may be that the old moral economy worked because the peasants recognized that , in a sense , that was the way they w well they , they could not stand up and criticize the landlord th the , the most they could do was to try and get the landlord to behave in a reasonable way , and that within that there would then be the sub-culture , the counter-culture of , of beginnings of mutual aid and what is happening in is in part that the communists are making them think the old moral economy work , but in part they are picking up on those sub- culture bits because the , the , the whole of mutual aid idea is , is coming from existing peasant cooperations . |
| 12 | He should stand up and repudiate the threat in the House . |
| 13 | We can stand by and watch the crops ripen and grow . |
| 14 | She might not have succeeded in warning Guy , but she did n't think Brien fitzCount would stand by and allow the Queen 's equerry to be murdered while he was on official business . |
| 15 | ‘ We are a peaceful community but we can not stand by and allow the people responsible to destroy the fabric of our society . |
| 16 | Neither we nor the Western world as such would stand by and see the straits of the Persian Gulf closed to international traffic . |
| 17 | I mean i i i the these are individual peasants from a village who are standing up and taking the lead in criticizing landlords etcetera but , but they , they are not the Party cadres coming in from outside . |
| 18 | There is a lot to be learnt from standing back and observing the way a child plays with shape and form , but it may be that the child will want to talk about it afterwards , or ask for help to find particular shape materials as he works . |
| 19 | She stood up and told the meeting that she agreed . |
| 20 | Before the pudding was cut the Reverend Morey stood up and rapped the table to attract attention . |
| 21 | Then he stood up and rebuked the wind ( Matt . |
| 22 | The judge stood up and left the courtroom . |
| 23 | Rico stood up and left the room . |
| 24 | The Shah stood up and left the room without a word . |
| 25 | He stood up and left the room with only the barest nod at both of them . |
| 26 | We stood up and left the house by the back door . |
| 27 | She pushed back her chair , stood up and crossed the room to open her box of tarot cards . |
| 28 | Inspector Berret stood up and questioned the doctor : ‘ Are the injuries consistent with a jemmy or case opener ? ’ he enquired . |
| 29 | After we had settled down , brother Jack stood up and banged the table and called for order for Dad to say grace . |
| 30 | She stood up and scanned the room , as if for inspiration . |