Example sentences of "[pron] stood up [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I stood up to my waist in water trying to capture the surfing action in Widemouth Bay , I found this fully automatic camera remarkably easy to use . |
| 2 | ‘ Oh , there were good times and bad times , ’ said Connor , adding reminiscently , ‘ Did I ever tell you of the night I stood up to Jack Johnson ? ’ |
| 3 | I stood up at once . |
| 4 | I stood up with knees that felt like buckling and tried to open the door into the dock ; and it was as immovable from outside as from in . |
| 5 | I stood up for a gasp of air , ducked down again , searching with fingers , with feet , with urgency turning to appalling alarm . |
| 6 | ‘ I stood up for what 's right . |
| 7 | I stood up for him and said it was rubbish , and told all the black players to quit training . |
| 8 | I stood up for six questions , not least for question No. 3 , in which I have a constituency interest . |
| 9 | If I stood up on the walkway , I thought , I could probably stretch up and touch the ceiling , but would n't be able to reach the hole . |
| 10 | Most attention concentrated on the last sentence of my statement which I had inserted just before I stood up in the House of Commons : |
| 11 | Thus my trial by Fire had shriven me of all but the Dyak tattoo I stood up in , and enough imagery to illustrate something of both the linear and the dream dimensions of an odyssey into the oceanic hemisphere of our beginnings . |
| 12 | Alone in Paris , in a foreign city on the brink of winter , penniless , hungry , with not an item I could call my own except the clothes I stood up in . |
| 13 | I mean , you stood up for four hits , Mouse ? ’ |
| 14 | The structured the structured thought patterns gave me an actual er organisation to my talk be it only just a few words on a piece of paper it was simple yet er gave the organisation to the actual talk while you stood up in front of an audience . |
| 15 | Mary was no longer scared of Mum ; she stood up to her and matched her temper . |
| 16 | She stood up to your mother , and I 've known very few people who have had the pluck to do it . " |
| 17 | She stood up with total aplomb , and carried off first prize for her rendering of a " Purple Pussycat " . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'm a Bank Assistant ’ , was the first thing she said when she stood up at a recent IBOA meeting . |
| 19 | She stood up on her two legs , and purged the animal from her soul . |
| 20 | The boat too affected her profoundly ; she had never been on a boat before , except for a rowing boat in the park , and she stood up on the top deck in the bitter grey April wind , and watched the foam and the emptiness and the receding bar of Folkestone , and she thought that she had never seen anything so wonderful in her life . |
| 21 | Like a rabbit she ran across the course to intercept Anmer and as the horse was hugging the rails she stood up in front of him holding both her hands above her head , and then sprang at him . |
| 22 | As she stood up in her stirrups , stretching over Hermia 's nearside shoulder to hit the forehand , her right leg automatically swivelled up in the air . |
| 23 | Hanging on the door is a dressing gown and in the wardrobe a change of clothes given to her when she arrived in the refuge with only the clothes she stood up in and a shopping bag . |
| 24 | She stood up in annoyance . |
| 25 | She stood up in the boat . |
| 26 | Those returning Marines crashed their arms across their spreadeagle-painted chest plastrons , saluting Lord Pugh who stood up on a high balcony of traceried wrought tungsten . |
| 27 | In a discussion with Jenny Ball , we talked about those women teachers who stood up for women 's rights . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | But unlike the young hero in Tom Brown 's Schooldays who stood up to his tormentor Flashman , Charles went straight to the headmaster . |
| 30 | OLIVER MORGAN spoke to four individuals who stood up to be counted . |