Example sentences of "stand [prep] the [noun prp] " 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 | A statue to Balboa stands near the Pacific exit of the Panama Canal , in the town named in his honour . |
| 3 | The thin beech spinney from where the dogs were slipped still stands near the Oxford road . |
| 4 | We went to school together , I saved him from a beating and he rescued me from a hanging , twice ; once in Ipswich and then again at Montfaucon , that great forest of gibbets which stands near the Porte St Denis in Paris . |
| 5 | It may not yet be the FBI but , just as in the movies where the American flag stands behind the FBI chief 's desk , Mr Mullett has already propped the Union flag against the wall . |
| 6 | Stromatolites related to former high lake stands in the Lake Magadi-Natron basin have uncorrected U-series ages of about 300kyr , although a corrected age of 25040kyr may be obtained by assuming that 234 U had been preferentially leached . |
| 7 | Sarah Purser 's portrait of the young Maud is in the National Gallery of Ireland and a bust of her by Lawrence Campbell stands in the Hugh Lane Gallery . |
| 8 | Among those at the party was Muhammad Ali , who unlike Louis has , so far , not sunk to being doorman at Caesars Palace ; he just stands in the Mirage Hotel at the head of a never diminishing human snake , signing his autograph . |
| 9 | Among those at the party was Muhammad Ali , who unlike Louis has , so far , not sunk to being doorman at Caesars Palace ; he just stands in the Mirage Hotel at the head of a never diminishing human snake , signing his autograph . |
| 10 | Granby House is listed Grade II and stands within the Whitworth Street Conservation Area . |
| 11 | Not only would she be able to stand in the Commons bar and glare at Conservatives who betrayed her during the leadership contest , thus putting them off their ill-earned whiskies , but chastise those responsible for mishandling the Tory campaign . |
| 12 | Sooner or later she would have to stand before the Mother Superior and confess what she had done , but even that awful prospect could n't quell her joy just then . |
| 13 | The modelling of the Gorgon 's face resembles that of the Dipylon head ( fig. 15 ) , and she stands to her perhaps slightly later sister of Corfu very much as that stands to the Delphi twins ( fig. 16 ) : the Attic works have perhaps less charm but more power . |
| 14 | We have no bronze original which stands to the Hestia as the Zeus to the Apollo . |
| 15 | This little mill stands on the Washbrook . |
| 16 | And as the ship freed herself from the mule-lines and her screw began to chum up a wake of umber , sludgy water , and she picked up speed towards the marker buoys and the farewell beacon on Flamenco Island , I was sure I could see the seamen still , pointing their cameras back — now with long lenses all — towards the statue of Balboa which stands on the Panama City seafront , with the great man gazing out at the Ocean into which the Poles were now , at long last , sailing . |
| 17 | Earlier plans for a purely commando raid had been abandoned , as mentioned earlier , because St Nazaire stands on the Loire estuary with only one deep-water channel which was covered by coastal batteries in 1942 . |
| 18 | The memorial stands on the Harrington to Lamport road . |
| 19 | The Egyptians are asking for Cleopatra 's Needle , the great granite obelisk of 1500 BC which stands on the Thames embankment just a few yards from the Savoy . |
| 20 | i.e. the old Whitehall Palace in London , which used to stand beside the Thames , between the present Houses of Parliament and Charing Cross Bridge . |
| 21 | The Rangers midfield player , who used to stand on the Elland Road terraces , fears Howard Wilkinson 's champions could copy Arsenal by going into free-fall after crashing out of Europe . |
| 22 | STONE products produced by the Border Hardcore and Rockery Stone Company , of Middletown , Welshpool , are enhancing display stands at the Paris Air Show . |
| 23 | For Balboa stands at the Pacific terminus of the Panama Canal — one of the most remarkable examples of man 's enduring engineering skills , one of the legacies of Balboa 's discovery and march . |
| 24 | Ontario 's Attorney-General , Roy McMurtry , says he stands by the CDC report and Digoxin expert , Alois Hastreiter of the University of Illinois says post-mortem levels found in some of the patients were ‘ far too high to be explained by any naturally occurring substance ’ . |
| 25 | The ruins of this 900-year-old castle , the first Norman castle in England , stand on the West Hill cliff top commanding panoramic views . |
| 26 | Three children , aged between four and seven , scream as uniformed East Berlin police drag them and their mother off and push them into a lorry as they stand outside the US embassy in East Berlin , hoping desperately to get inside . |
| 27 | Visit the Schwartz stand at the BBC Good Food Show and you could win an attractive Schwartz wooden spice rack ( spices not included ) . |
| 28 | In September Lafayette took pride of place on the Stoddard Templeton stand at the Harrogate exhibition , the main retail carpet exhibition of the year , where it was officially launched and shown for the first time . |
| 29 | Stand at the Shropshire Steam Engine Show , Bishop 's Castle , 26/27 August 1990 |
| 30 | The jump will be a familiar sight to people who attended the Citroen stand at the Yorkshire Show last year . |