Example sentences of "stand [adv] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She stands down Whitechapel with her legs open saying , come on over to my place . |
| 2 | And in ‘ Macbeth ’ , ‘ when Tarquin ‘ rapes ’ the crown , and the Boar climbs into Duncan 's slashed skin and stands up King of Scotland ’ , one must simply groan , because for all the tortuous extravagance of metaphor , and the twists and turns of myth intended to give it power like twisted elastic , one is not being told anything novel . |
| 3 | And when her mum stands there back of her hair trying |
| 4 | A big bream is a very deep-bodied fish and would have to stand almost tail to surface to pick a bait direct from the bottom with its lips , which I know they do when they are in that kind of mood . |
| 5 | Bulls stand about 152cm at the withers and weigh an average 1,250kg , and cows 142cm and 900kg . |
| 6 | and they stand there sort of bouncing up and down on this canvass thing , you know , sort of like this then she goes ooh ooh , and her bleeding leg comes up in the air |
| 7 | Your comment that the central thesis of my lecture does not stand up stems from a misunderstanding of what I was trying to say . |
| 8 | and I said would you integrate so it did n't stand out sort of too obviously four X cubed minus X times X squared . |
| 9 | The strategy involved removing troops to barracks and standing down checkpoints in nationalist areas . |
| 10 | Now , as she prepared to close the window , the robin returned , standing only inches from her hand and eyeing her with great deliberation , his tiny head cocked to one side and his bright eyes glinting in the sunshine . |
| 11 | Long hours of standing over benches by the lock makers got part of the Black Country known as " Humpshire " . |
| 12 | It is lightly built and agile , with light hindquarters , heavier shoulders and long horns curving up — in fact it is very similar to the fighting bulls of Spain and Portugal , and just as alert and aggressive , but much lighter in build , with the bulls weighing only 400–475kg and the cows 325–350kg , and standing about 130cm at the withers . |
| 13 | She had advanced a step further towards him until now they were standing almost breast to breast . |
| 14 | If there was a long line of people number of seven for the seven dwarfs and they were all standing there side by side and they had their hands over there face like so and the altogether , at the same time , in unison they parted the hand to reveal the facial expression that is more of a dramatic experience to people looking than just by standing here . |
| 15 | Happily married couples , he thought , stood not face to face , absorbed in each other , but back to back , looking outwards upon the world . |
| 16 | She moved to the window and stared out towards the sea , the moon lit the bay with pure light , the craggy rocks of Mumbles stood out dark against the sky . |
| 17 | Eyewitness accounts and Stukeley 's excavation of the base of the cross in 1745 indicates that it stood about half-a-mile up Casterton Road on the brow into Foxdale . |
| 18 | The manor house stood immediately south of the church . |
| 19 | I said you ai n't sharp I said you 've got all your priorities wrong I said you stood there Jane with thirteen pound ai n't you , in an envelope ? |
| 20 | and I stood there den of iniquity in here , with the three of them , and luckily she was n't paying attention , she went on to something else and they all looked at me and burst out laughing . |