Example sentences of "stand [adv prt] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Craig Brown , the under-21 team manager , has lost three of his current squad — Ferguson , Booth and Wright — to the full squad and has decided to stand down the rest of his Premier Division-based players at a time when league commitments in England have deprived him of Anglos . |
| 2 | Every golfer in the world experiences that awful feeling of helplessness when he stands over a putt and knows that he has not the slightest chance of getting the ball near the hole , let alone into it . |
| 3 | Coping strategies which are sometimes suggested , like making a mental agreement with yourself or even an actual arrangement with the other party , to stand over an arm 's length away and promise not to move from your spot , are sensible if the temperature really soars . |
| 4 | ONE voice stands out every time the choir begins to sing in a village church . |
| 5 | ‘ It stands out a mile ; she never was much of an actress , ’ he drawled . |
| 6 | Oh god it stands out a mile , quite a good photo , it looks as though he just about |
| 7 | ‘ With everything that has happened over the last couple of years , I just want to stand back a bit and have a couple of weeks to think about it ’ , he said , before later confirming his desire to lead a new-look Scotland in 1992 . |
| 8 | Once again many of us were conscious of the opportunities rather than the obstacles which stand along the path of Church Unity . |
| 9 | Daniel Digby , provost of the G-Mek Orbital , has issued a formal denial to allegations by Ayatollah Bakhtiar that fugitive graphic novelist Neil Gaiman has been in hiding in the facility , and has requested that the Pan-Islamic congress stand down the Inter-Satellite Ballistic Missiles currently targeted on them . |
| 10 | ‘ Stand up a minute , Christopher , and let me measure this . ’ |
| 11 | And er she won a point for that , and a point for this so anyway , showed me that , so he said well just stand up a minute Geoff , so I stood up , so he said erm now do n't move ! |
| 12 | I 'll empty the pockets , and you stand back a bit . |
| 13 | Players stand around the room . |
| 14 | The children stand around the leader in a semi-circle and are numbered off until the last two become Jack and then King or Queen . |
| 15 | Stand around the fire , talk to the night-watchman but all the time taking a risk that the sergeant might have doubled back on you , to see if you were working your beat . |
| 16 | He had addressed it to the Chief Accountant personally , and a letter so addressed , in his distinctive handwriting would stand out a mile when the letters were spread across Steve Pyle 's desk . |
| 17 | With their brittle tales of lost innocence , broken hearts and serial killers ( Ted Bunday and Charles Manson , in fact ) , they 'd stand out a mile anyway . |
| 18 | If you made er if you pocketed ten thousand , of course , it 'd stand out a mile . |
| 19 | It 'd stand out a mile would n't it ? |
| 20 | If you 're fighting Dwarfs , who you know will stand around a lot waiting for you to come and get them , then a few rounds of bolt fire from two or three machines can soften them up nicely . |
| 21 | Poignantly standing along a stretch of the fast-disappearing Berlin Wall . |
| 22 | The intelligence officers , having failed to allow for Double Summertime , which had been introduced the night after the first ‘ Hess ’ flight , were on the point of standing down the op just as the bombers droned into hearing . |
| 23 | There were stories about the echo on those records being created by someone standing down the end of the corridor and playing . |
| 24 | They 've got all this digital equipment and yet they 're standing down the end of a corridor … |
| 25 | Mrs Crumwallis and Mrs Garfitt had run from the serving table and were standing over a boy . |
| 26 | I remember watching the television report showing him standing over a map in the local Party headquarters , sweeping his hand across it presumably indicating which areas were to disappear from the face of the earth . |
| 27 | Sticking your willy up strange holes had to be riskier than standing over a lavatory basin . |
| 28 | Slatter was standing over a youth and his girlfriend in the corner . |
| 29 | So , standing up a bit here , come over by the window . |
| 30 | If there was any criticism of the engine , it was that the aluminium alloys used gave the impression of not standing up the rigours of 40 years under the ground quite so well . |