Example sentences of "be stand in for " in BNC.
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| 1 | But you 've got to practice with me to get the movements right so I 'm to stand in for the swan . ’ |
| 2 | I forgot to mention earlier that I 'll be standing in for emergency cover tonight . ’ |
| 3 | So put down , I 've only just missed two things out on health , there was the breathing and erm should be standing in for me on all four feet behind but not four it 's quite normal |
| 4 | I 'm standing in for my father . |
| 5 | The hostess became ill and I 'm standing in for her . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm standing in for Stella — as I 've already told you . ’ |
| 7 | This is a special outing and he was supposed to be here to take charge of this lot , but the poor fellow 's down with jaundice and I 'm standing in for him . |
| 8 | I WOULD like to say how much I have enjoyed listening to former Labour leader Neil Kinnock , right , while he has been standing in for Jimmy Young on Radio 2 . |
| 9 | The Bishop of Tewkesbury , who 's been standing in for Bishop Peter , spoke of his sadness over the resignation . |
| 10 | Terry Storry is standing in for Hugh Mantle at Liverpool Polytechnic while Hugh takes a year out to coach the British men 's kayak slalom team ( Aug , p19 ) . |
| 11 | While Cicely is away Hilda Lodge is standing in for her , and finalising the numbers . |
| 12 | The long and the short of it is , her father owns the two shops — I suppose they 're joined at the back — and she was standing in for her father . |
| 13 | The first of the two meetings then was of the regional chairman of BAIE ( and I was standing in for ours in Scotland ) followed by a meeting of the Council of BAIE . |
| 14 | The deputy Labour leader , Margaret Beckett , told Tony Newton , the leader of the Commons , who was standing in for Mr Major at Question Time : ‘ How would you feel if you were serving in the British Army under fire in Bosnia and were handed a P45 ? ’ |