Example sentences of "who [verb] [adv] stand " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stuart Weir , who has courageously stood by Rushdie , was there , and so were such men and women of impeccable liberal credentials as James Cornford , Sara Maitland and Ben Whitaker . |
| 2 | Getting this ingredient off the drawing boards and into bricks and mortar — not to mention details such as Donald Duck doorknobs — was indeed the stuff of dreams for Stern , who has always stood up for emotional content : ‘ In my view , whether you are engaged in a theme park , a hospital , or a court house , the building should elicit some excitement . ’ |
| 3 | She , who 'd always stood on her own feet , fought her own battles . |
| 4 | Those who do not stand with us and fight , align themselves with the Enemy and will be annihilated with the forces of Darkness . |
| 5 | John Prescott , who did not stand last year , leaped to third place above both Tony Benn and Dennis Skinner , who used to come first and second . |
| 6 | He replaces Berndt Schultz , the Fair 's founder , who did not stand for re-election . |
| 7 | Kokoomus , led by the outgoing Prime Minister , Harri Holkeri ( who did not stand for re-election ) , lost 3.8 per cent and 13 of its 53 seats . |
| 8 | Is this independent , single parent who does n't stand for any of Barry Brant 's messin' anything like the real Hilary ? |
| 9 | What proved particularly shocking in this instance was that the licensing of firearms was so haphazard that a 16-year-old Whitechapel youth , who had already stood trial on a charge of wounding his 16-year-old girlfriend with a revolver , could obtain a licence at a later date without even having to show proof of his age . |
| 10 | Fudah , 47 , was a professor of agriculture who had unsuccessfully stood as a candidate in legislative elections , most recently in 1990 . |
| 11 | No one who had ever stood on the edge of that abyss where she had been teetering for so long , that held hunger and cold , sickness that could not be treated for lack of a shilling , children one could afford neither to raise nor to bury , would have a harsh word to say . |
| 12 | Proud and pleased to be playing opposite Frank Donovan who had once stood in for Hayden Coffin . |
| 13 | In patients with the Zollinger-Ellison sydrome , who have long standing hypergastrinaemia originating from the rumour , proliferation of fundic argyrophil cells , mainly fo the ECL type , has also been observed . |