Example sentences of "stand [adv] [prep] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dark and relentless , feeding occasionally from a ‘ 303 ’ magic wand , it severs the veins of the other three tracks and stands powerfully over them , eerie and obsessively driving towards a finish line that seems will never appear . |
| 2 | ‘ Please tell her I 'm sorry she 's ill — but that I 'm pleased to be able to stand in for her . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I 'll have got my bearings by tomorrow , so you wo n't need to stand in for me , ’ she said , ‘ but tonight , I do n't mind admitting , I 'll be glad to catch up on some beauty sleep . |
| 4 | The trustee is to chair meetings of the committee , but he may nominate someone else to stand in for him and that person must either be an employee of his experienced in insolvency matters or another qualified insolvency practitioner ( r 6.154 ) . |
| 5 | ‘ But my chief at Liverpool CID would not let me take part , because he was away on holiday himself at the time , and required me to stand in for him . |
| 6 | If the Ketterings had wanted another family to stand in for them , it could only be for recognition by someone they wished to avoid or who might be a danger to them . |
| 7 | ‘ They have always said they will care for Jennifer completely , and until now they 've only allowed me to stand in for them , but it 's taking its toll . |
| 8 | It might also be argued that it functions as metonymy , in which some element closely associated with the prime function of the whole comes to stand in for it . |
| 9 | The righteous Lord Jesus having dealt with the defilement of our sins , represents us — stands in for us if you like , before his Father . |
| 10 | God 's Word is not simply a bare event of encounter with the Subject who stands over against us as Lord . |
| 11 | A realist approach lays stress on the belief that the world has an existence independent of any observer ; that it stands over against us as an entity in its own right . |
| 12 | Another is the dialectic , a pattern of movement which proceeds from a starting-point ( the thesis ) to another which stands over against it in opposition or contradiction ( the antithesis ) , and then moves on to a third stage in which the two are reconciled and reintegrated on a higher level ( the synthesis ) . |
| 13 | She stands upright in her long white cotton nightgown from Laura Ashley , scratches her bottom through the cambric , and yawns . |
| 14 | She woos Antonio with tremulous lip and speaking eye ; she stands up to her incestuously possessive brother , Ferdinand , with blazing authority . |
| 15 | No matter : as the Ultra to Shakespeare 's Enigma , Hughes continues relentlessly to crack the code of symbolic language and translate it into his own cryptological system : ‘ [ Othello ] plunges into the skein of Iago 's Adonis words , and stands up in them transformed , as Tarquin stood up transformed in the skin of Adonis , over the bed of Lucrece . |
| 16 | What do you really think is more important , disappointing your ‘ friends ’ by ‘ going all religious on them ’ or disappointing Jesus by failing to stand up for him ? |
| 17 | He was always loyal and when we had a house maid who adored Basil and had little affection for his sisters and she used to stand up for him as hardly done by , he would have none of it , to my remembered satisfaction . |
| 18 | It is the individual customer who is most vulnerable when competition is lacking , and the Bill concentrates on improving his position and on giving the regulator more powers to stand up for him when he has disputes with the regulated utilities . |
| 19 | Someone had to stand up for her . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Silvia does n't need you to stand up for her . |
| 21 | ‘ You did n't have to stand up for me just then , ’ she said steadily as soon as he had pulled out of the driveway . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | You do , you try to stand up for them , protect them |
| 24 | ‘ Your daddy was terribly brave to stand up to them alone , ’ said Cheryl , in awe . |
| 25 | ‘ I wo n't be able to stand up to them like you , Adam . ’ |
| 26 | She really ought to stand up to him . |
| 27 | ‘ She 's proud and wants to convey her determination to stand up to him . |
| 28 | ‘ We went a few rounds when I was big enough to stand up to him . ’ |
| 29 | Claudia shivered ; her twin was n't alone in her fear , but Dana would n't be able to stand up to him for a moment . |
| 30 | She had to stand up to him ; shout out that she would n't let herself become embroiled in his sordid games … |