Example sentences of "[conj] i stand [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it really is to promote a couple of the initiatives of your instrument that I stand here . |
| 2 | I decide I am shivering because I am cold , so I stand up and exercise . |
| 3 | Staying seated while he prowls around makes me uneasy , so I stand up and join him at the window . |
| 4 | She is already in her nightdress , and I stand up holding my toothbrush like I 've found the present I forgot to give her . |
| 5 | Added to which they all tend to wear the regulation uniform in class , complete with cap very often , so that and I stand out conspicuously in our light coloured and variegated clothes . |
| 6 | If I stand up to her , she looks so sad and that makes me feel wicked . |
| 7 | Erm before we started this drawing which so if I co , perhaps if I stand here everyone will be able to see which is probably fairly familiar and in , in most respects it goes back about six years to the first master plan that was produced for the estate erm to provide a combination of regeneration and new build . |
| 8 | Whatever the activity , I still see this as the old style … it 's teacher-led from that point of view in that they rely on me to start them off and I mean it 's almost as if I stand there with a gun and say ‘ Go ! ’ |
| 9 | but think about all the people that we are nice to , I mean look at James , a prime example , have I ever been a bitch to him , never , but I stand up here , when I see him I 'm like oh yeah ha ha , you know , laugh along with his jokes and |
| 10 | Whether I 'll be remembered as the most pompous , hard-to-get-along-with person they 've ever come across , because I stand up for what I believe in , or as the best athlete Britain 's ever had , which I think will be the case , I 'll always be remembered . ’ |
| 11 | I show them the Camden Market , and my brother , Winchell , buys an old , funereal coat by the Lock , while I stand by and smoke spliffs with the bootleg sellers in bright berets . |
| 12 | Before I stand back from this chapter , a summary . |
| 13 | I 'm a bit dizzy when I stand up and have to hang onto this litter bin , but I 'm OK after a bit . |
| 14 | I still get jelly in the belly , Joe , when I stand up and face those bods . ’ |
| 15 | When I stand up I see the wooden block full of knives on the work surface , just visible by moonlight next to the gently gleaming stainless steel of the sinks . |
| 16 | Okay , so what we 're looking at over these two days and what in order for you to be able to say yes we 've achieved the objectives er by tomorrow is how to use that time that we have to prepare to the most er efficient and effective so that e the preparation you know when you 've prepared it that yes when I stand up to speak I 'm gon na be able to put these points over effectively and make the presentation memorable . |
| 17 | You see this is the thing that worries me because , you know , when I stand up and say I like what John Dreyfus did and I think his looks very good and I maintain the traditions of the Oxford University Press , I can suddenly feel that I 'm being typecast as being in the English tradition of typography as a revered art and the Morrisonian thing and the whole thing separate from , you know , a culture within a culture and a separate thing . |
| 18 | ‘ It 's as true as I stand here … had it from Mary Daniels as works at the Galleon . |
| 19 | I begin to appreciate for the first time , as I stand here on the outside looking in , how very reserved is the world in which we work . |
| 20 | As I stand up , heading for the bathroom , I see a piece of paper under my door . |
| 21 | All I am conscious of , as I stand there with the page in my hand , is that here at last are the two terms of my inquiry , Strategy and Summerchild , united by the same sheet of paper . |
| 22 | I feel silently amused at this as I stand there in her doorway . |
| 23 | There was none had any part in it but I. Enquire no further , for I stand here to declare what I have done , and to defend it . ’ |