Example sentences of "stood up [prep] the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dora stood up with the glass in her hand . |
| 2 | The forty or so girls , dressed in mufti to mark their status as sixth-formers , stood up on the arrival of the speaker and his escort . |
| 3 | Vincent stood up at the back of the room and walked modestly along the wall to the platform . |
| 4 | up there and all of a sudden he saw it and he came in the room , Tony and he went he looked up at it and the stood up at the back of his neck and he was going grurgh ever so quietly under his breath grurgh . |
| 5 | He retreated to the deepest part and stood up to the chest in filth , weeping . |
| 6 | We cheered three Egyptians who stood up in the body of the hall and cried , ‘ We want Nasser ’ . |
| 7 | Most attention concentrated on the last sentence of my statement which I had inserted just before I stood up in the House of Commons : |
| 8 | The second Lord Redesdale once stood up in the House of Lords to argue that ‘ denial of the hereditary principle is a direct blow at the Crown . |