Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv] stand " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the South African War , he tried unsuccessfully to stand for the South African parliament before returning home to marry Lady Mary Douglas Hamilton . |
| 2 | Mr Peter Bergg , aged 47 , is also running in his first election although he has previously stood in Sedgefield district council elections . |
| 3 | Friends of Dr Owen say that his farewell advice to the nation — he has now stood down as an MP — is intended to avoid damaging the chances for his two remaining SDP colleagues , Rosie Barnes and John Cartwright , who are fighting to hold on to their south-east London seats . |
| 4 | Cash 's liberalism only extends so far — he has always stood for old-fashioned values like God , country and being handy in a knife fight . |
| 5 | He came back to stand directly in front of Nuadu . |
| 6 | He jumped the queue at the ticket counter — his stub realized $I8- but he went on standing there in line , his head babyishly lolling with impatience , before he peeled off into the store-flanked tunnels . |
| 7 | T. Behrens gives the impression that he has more to say about himself than the progress of this mad love — to which he did not stand all that close at the time , brother as he was — has allowed him to come up with . |
| 8 | With further government setbacks in by-elections in Bradford and Bootle on 8 November , there was a strong feeling that Heseltine 's reputation would be irreparably damaged if he did not stand : it was now or never . |
| 9 | Pound was not to escape lightly , however , and although he did not stand trial he was judged insane and spent the next eleven years in confinement . |
| 10 | European leaders who had feared since Korea that America 's relentless anti-Communism would end in disaster gave Johnson little support and he did not stand for re-election in 1968 . |
| 11 | Julia removed her hand , but he did not stand up . |
| 12 | Although he lived for eleven more years , he did not stand again . |
| 13 | He did not stand for re-election to the Parliament of 1780 ; but he was elected for Ripon in 1787 , and became a commissioner of the Board of Trade in 1788 . |
| 14 | joined us just as we were ready to go overseas , he had just come out of er Flight School and of course his heart was set on being a fighter pilot and here he became a co-pilot so he was a very disappointed man and he did not stand up well in combat so there were n't too many missions , about five and I bounced him off the crew and would n't fly with him any more and got then other co-pilots to fly with me from our Squadron . |
| 15 | My falling in love with Julian was nothing to do with me , nothing to do with Julian , but part of the curse put on Bernard that his wife would become the love object of a man more attractive , more wealthy , more intelligent and of a higher status than he , so he did n't stand an earthly . |
| 16 | He folded the paper away as we approached but he did n't stand up . |
| 17 | Winnie felt a huge welling , seeing the shrivelled Rab , that , and now she knew , he had not stood her up . |
| 18 | Perhaps the policeman had looked into Erlich 's face and calculated that if he had not stood aside then he might just have ended up on his back . |
| 19 | He had already stood out against the Board 's obstinacy by forcing out their version of the comparative costs between nuclear- and coal-powered electricity ( see Chapter Six ) . |
| 20 | It was the only thing he had ever stood out for . |
| 21 | It was one of the loneliest places on earth , and he had never stood there . |
| 22 | But of course he does not stand alone . |
| 23 | Will he confirm that he does not stand alone in the European Community but that other countries support his firm stand ? |
| 24 | If your candidate is going to research the level of pollution in a local river , he does n't stand on the bridge and look ; he either wades in to feel for junk or he goes in with a professional diver to find it . |
| 25 | ‘ Well he might be a bit faster because he 's lighter — but in most of the games he does n't stand a chance , said Hawk . ’ |
| 26 | And even now that he has achieved all this he does n't stand still . |
| 27 | I mean he does n't stand and dither and think , that 's not |