Example sentences of "[indef pn] stand [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ One can hardly appear wearing L-plates , but no-one stands up for their first performance of a great work saying : ‘ This is the definitive version . ’ |
| 2 | If they have been just very bad , and if they have someone to stand up for them , they are given three strokes of the whip , usually by Sheldon Parry , the born-again television director , and then made to put on a short green smock for the duration of the service . |
| 3 | I agree it 's hard to distinguish between our footprints but this stain , this wetness , shows someone stood here for some time , their cloak and boots heavy with snow . |
| 4 | Be prepared to be the first one to stand up for what is right when something wrong is being done to or said about someone . |
| 5 | ‘ I know it 's feeble , Jess , and silly , but I 've never been one to stand up for my rights , so to speak . |
| 6 | Everyone stood aside for the barrel-like KGB colonel in full uniform and his scruffy civilian companion . |