Example sentences of "[pron] stood for [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She stood for hours behind him , seeing him sketch , then stop and change what he had drawn . |
| 2 | And then we stood for ages while streams of cars whirred rhythmically past . |
| 3 | He was famous , people flocked to catch a glimpse of him , they stood for hours in the freezing cold in the hope that he would choose their hand to shake — for no better reason than an accident of birth . |
| 4 | However , " culture " and art " were inherently undemocratic since they stood for processes of feeling , understanding , and evaluation that were considered to have become lost to majority cultures and literacies . |
| 5 | In between bins he stood for eternities looking at the elephants . |