Example sentences of "stand [adv prt] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.

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31 There 's a man , Steve , stands up in Hyde Park every Sunday er talking about communism and socialism .
32 IT CA N'T be very long before a rapist or a murderer stands up in court and pleads in defence : ‘ It was n't me , Your Honour , it was the Press . ’
33 For instance , when he is wheeled to the toilet , he stands up in order to get into the wheelchair , and again to move onto the toilet , instead of being lifted or transferred .
34 And I get it green for when she stands up in class .
35 Accordingly , nothing in his framework was designed to stand up for liberty where the legislature saw fit to intervene with new restrictive laws , or where the courts contrived to discover or develop them ; Dicey simply assumed that this would not occur .
36 The government found itself derided for its failure to stand up for Serbia , assert Russian interests in the Straits — the focal point of nationalist aspiration — and face the confrontation between Slav and Teuton which was widely thought to be inevitable .
37 Mr Grosz was the only senior politician yesterday with the courage to stand up for Communism in front of a hostile audience .
38 Clarissa would have liked to stand up for Charles , but it came out as nothing more positive than ‘ Oh ’ .
39 Germany 's Jewish Council , noting Monday 's anniversary of the Nazis ' 1938 Kristallnacht ( Night of the Shattering Glass ) pogrom , said the Right-wing resurgence obliged Germans more than ever before to stand up for democracy and tolerance .
40 As a result there are now Government , as well as private consumer organizations , whose purpose is to stand up for consumers ' rights .
41 ‘ I am demonstrating that I want to stand up for Hong Kong 's interests .
42 At the election he stood as the architect 's architect , pledged to stand up for quality of design .
43 Love wo n't change the history of the world ( that nonsense about Cleopatra 's nose is strictly for sentimentalists ) , but it will do something much more important : teach us to stand up to history , to ignore its chin-out strut .
44 This aspect of the writing of reports has been exaggerated to impress on you that every report , even the least important , must be able to stand up to expert cross-examination .
45 The whole system had been constructed to stand up to earthquake pressures .
46 Reports from Kampuchea claim that the country 's 35,000-man army is good enough to stand up to Khmer Rouge incursions .
47 Maxine Johnson , who had been uneasy at his interview , was worried about whether Sutton would ‘ be able to stand up to Pilger ’ .
48 The Office of Fair Trading chose not to examine this market and the Hatton Garden traders have not always been able to stand up to Ratner 's negotiating muscle .
49 Frankly , I do n't think he has the moral power or courage to stand up to Dublin and take Dublin on .
50 Thank goodness for people prepared to stand up to authority and tackle the system they believe is wrong . ’
51 I could n't imagine any of them having the nerve to stand up to Filmer and demand their money .
52 She drew comparisons between the present crisis concerning Iraq 's invasion of Kuwait and the experience of 1938 , declaring that " Czechoslovakia of all countries needs no reminding of the need for nations to stand up to bullies and do so at once " .
53 They were told , now was the time to find the courage to stand up to terrorists ,
54 A Home Secretary needs one , not so much to stand up to criminals as to stand up to people with damaging non-solutions to crime .
55 I thought Bobby Carter was a brave man to stand up to Billy , and him twice his size . ’
56 With output recovering , the prime minister , Hanna Suchocka decided to stand up to Solidarity 's threat to call a general strike .
57 We all had to stand up in turn in front of the class and give a short talk , followed by a question-and-answer session .
58 So you 're going to stand up in front of a judge and say all that , are you , Wally ?
59 Miss Harker was certainly very charming and many had hoped that her arrival might bring them some relief , but not one of them wanted to stand up in front of the boss 's relative and complain about the mill .
60 There he was encouraged to stand up in front of other patients and describe his own particular addiction .
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