Example sentences of "[pron] stood [adv prt] for " in BNC.

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1 I stood up for a gasp of air , ducked down again , searching with fingers , with feet , with urgency turning to appalling alarm .
2 I stood up for what 's right .
3 I stood up for him and said it was rubbish , and told all the black players to quit training .
4 I stood up for six questions , not least for question No. 3 , in which I have a constituency interest .
5 ‘ Good bye , Granny , I 'll try to be a good girl , ’ I sobbed before I stood back for the undertaker to screw down the lid .
6 I stood in for at the meeting of BAIE 's Regional Chairmen in London last week , and undertook to pass on to you the name and address of the Chairman of the London & Home Counties Region , who might well like you to do a seminar or seminars for them .
7 First I stood in for — ’ Suddenly he stopped .
8 I have to say that the galleries were the thing which stood out for me this week , apart from the fine golf played .
9 I mean , you stood up for four hits , Mouse ? ’
10 She stood back for him to see the roe deer .
11 In a discussion with Jenny Ball , we talked about those women teachers who stood up for women 's rights .
12 I 'm sure Father Chris would be pleased to hear that and would be very flattered to hear that as well but erm he 's erm I 'm sure he does try to live by those rules because er obviously that 's one of the bases of his life but erm I was thinking more in terms of somebody who stood up for themse stood up for what they believe in in a situation where it was difficult .
13 In 1469 , King Louis XI of France conferred with King Henry IV of Castile here ; in 1526 the captive King Francis I was exchanged for his two sons , who stood in for him as hostages with his great enemy , the Emperor Charles V ; in 1659 , the Peace of the Pyrenees between France and Spain was negotiated on the island ; and a year later , the contract of marriage was signed which consolidated that epoch-making treaty , between Louis XIV and the Infant a ( it was while helping to decorate the Spanish pavilion for the occasion that the painter Velázquez is said to have caught his death of cold ) .
14 Eithne , an accomplished singer who stood in for Barbara Dickson in Blood Brothers at London 's Lyric Theatre , says she left the soap because there was no future development for her Mrs Rogers .
15 I mean lunch time we were hearing how , because they stood up for what was right , it was over the killing of soldiers and that , this man job and actually he more or less said that he was something wrong with his head did n't he ?
16 Deeply committed to the pursuit of mathematics and the physical sciences , he stood up for the universities when they were attacked by vituperative radicals such as Cromwell 's army chaplain , John Webster .
17 His finest hour was when , as a member of the Royal Commission , he stood up for their interests and dissented valiantly from the majority .
18 Or he stood in for one or other of the teachers , notably Miss Gilberd when she wanted to ‘ pop home ’ , or Mr McWhirter when he failed altogether to arrive .
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