Example sentences of "[pron] stood for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I pulled the door shut and almost ran to the front door and into Langdon Crescent garden , where I stood for five minutes breathing in the fresh air . |
| 2 | He won 31 caps — a record which stood for 42 years . |
| 3 | She stood for several seconds , fingering her camera , staring up at the trees , glancing down the path and listening for the sound of trampling in the undergrowth that would herald Fernand 's return to his task . |
| 4 | She stood for several moments in front of the altar before turning away and walking back towards the door . |
| 5 | And , as soon as she had paid the driver and he had gone on his way she stood for some moments , looking at Ven 's house , photographing it in her mind 's eye because she knew — she would never come this way again . |
| 6 | Now the probings of the BBC interviewers , those secular confessors who stood for all the modern torturers goading and vexing him — the critics , the reviewers , the Stroud tax-man who sniffed out Waugh 's lucrative tax-dodges — were inside . |
| 7 | He was satisfied to leave the government of Sicily largely to the chancellor , Gauthier de Paléar , bishop of Troja , who stood for Sicilian rights and was anti-German . |
| 8 | After dinner the etiquette was very stiff , and we stood for two hours . |
| 9 | We stood for some time watching the ‘ Try your strength ’ machine which was always sited by The Fawcett Statue on Blue Boar Row . |
| 10 | They stood for two minutes in silence , signalled by the firing of a gun from the Royal Navy base , HMS Tamar . |
| 11 | In fact they stood for National War Museum . |
| 12 | When they left the restaurant they stood for some moments surveying the view of Prague , its many spires , red-roofed buildings , with a green dome here , the Vltava river with some of its bridges there , the Charles Bridge in particular Then , ‘ Shall we walk the rest of the way down ? ’ |
| 13 | Probably not a lot these days , but at the start , we 're told , it stood for Two Guys and a VAX — has anyone signed for the movie rights yet ? |
| 14 | He 'd always assumed that this was a piece of official terminology until one day he 'd asked what it meant , and found out that it stood for Another Fucking Drunk . |
| 15 | Tracing his political lineage to the New Deal and Great Society , he stood for higher spending on domestic programmes . |
| 16 | He stood for damaged Danu ; he got your sympathy . |
| 17 | So he stood for ten minutes at the window watching soldiers tossing bundles of equipment into the gurg-ling FV 432s parked around the parade ground and feeling the deep contentment of seeing other people working very hard very early in the day . |