Example sentences of "stand [adv prt] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He stands down this summer looking tired and weary after 20 years in office running a metropolis of ten million people which has a world-wide reputation for its crime , its gangs , its murders , its drugs , its violence , its riots , its burning streets . |
| 2 | this lad was , now he was , coming in the bar , he sat just as you come in the door and then he moved to that long thing where we sit , well I go at the bar and Jackie was sat there Jackie , I said time to be social , no I cos I laugh , I were laughing me head off me and he 's jabbering away move like that , his arms moving you know , then he sets off to sing , well , la , la and Johnny said shut up I know Johnny put his glass of beer on the next table to ours and sets off to see Mickey , then he stands up this lad sit down you , must have thought for his beer , I think he was like , I says to Jack I says er you want to put his trousers is all undone , you know sat and his trousers what and his jumper , so our Johnny went he said get that covered up and , but he pulled it down like that , and now he took 'em out he walked through the door and his trousers were falling down but |
| 3 | I 'll have to stand up all day Friday |
| 4 | A strip which has been missed with the herbicide stands out all season long , to the embarrassment of both spray operator and farmer . |
| 5 | Lochsong was a snip at the weights in last year 's Tote-Portland Handicap but no horse stands out this time . |
| 6 | Further symbolism can be found in the row of sixteen dark metal columns that stand along one side , one for each Land . |
| 7 | I ca n't stand around all day chit-chatting . |
| 8 | Over the extended hand she looked up into the prince 's eyes , and saw there the same candid regard she had seen in his model ; yet the shafts that pierced into this boy 's inmost being were somewhere shuttered close , standing off all communion . |
| 9 | He succeeds Peter Philp who stood down this year after serving six years as President . |
| 10 | He succeeds Peter Philp who stood down this year after serving six years as President . |
| 11 | In the wide centre space , where one box alone stood along one wall , there was a comfortable chair for the redoubtable Ms Brown , along with a table , equipment lockers , a refrigerator and a heavy plastic water tank with a tap low down for the filling of buckets . |
| 12 | Not , oh it was bad , it were it were , well , well stood up all traffic certainly . |
| 13 | In New York the Dow Jones Index tried to regain some of yesterday 's lost ground , at at four thirty stood up two point seven two points at two four five five point six nine . |
| 14 | A little Brick stood up one day |
| 15 | And , the people that were milling around us when you 're trying to drink a cup of coffee stood up last year it was just the , you know , people are not |
| 16 | The men at the time all stood round one side while all the girls stood opposite . |