Example sentences of "and stand [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | God is the Great Factory Farmer in the Sky ; closer and closer we are crammed together , the Pope our Bailiff , hatching our young for his profit , for , as the Bishop said to Marie Stopes , the purpose of man is to increase the flow of souls to God and to stand between God and his purpose is surely sin . |
| 2 | Political citizenship rights , notably the right to vote and to stand for election , were won in the nineteenth century and the early twentieth as the Representation of the People Acts extended the franchise by stages until universal adult suffrage had been achieved . |
| 3 | Article eight B two provides that citizens of the union shall have the right to vote and to stand as candidates in elections to the European parliament . |
| 4 | She fills her own glass and stands beside Clare and me , watching Andy pouring the champagne onto the top of the pyramid . |
| 5 | The common European toad , when it meets a snake , inflates its body and stands on tip-toe , a procedure that makes it appear to have grown suddenly and that seems to baffle most of the snakes that encounter it . |
| 6 | Whisk the mixture continuously until it thickens and stands in peaks . |
| 7 | Why is it that when you have been guarding a place as the players loom into view , Luciano Pavarotti comes and stands in front of you ? |
| 8 | His call for Strathclyde councillors to reject cuts and stand for re-election if the Scottish Office decided to cap the region 's budget was rejected by Labour . |
| 9 | Each pupil had to detail a movement in front of the squad pretending to be a drill sergeant and my detail was to get my squad from the stand easy position , slope arms and march them some 50 yards , then bring them back to the original position order arms and stand at ease . |
| 10 | Go upwards and stand on top of the wall ( above the window ) , go to the left of the wall and paint some ledges , then go onto the wall on the left , go left and shoot the switch , go up on the painted ledges and head right along the wall above you , go up on the trampoline and paint the button , go left along the passage , jump onto the trampoline , and from there onto the ledge on the left wall , jump to collect the painting , fall down and go up on the right of the window ( paint some ledges ) . |
| 11 | In another experiment , Sissons ( 1970 ) arranged for an actor to dress up in a suit and bowler hat and stand on Paddington station , periodically asking people the way to Hyde Park . |
| 12 | ‘ Do n't you but me , and stand to attention when you address an Officer . |
| 13 | ‘ No time for that , ’ Legion barked , and its tone made Ace automatically stop and stand to attention . |
| 14 | Go and stand near mummy |
| 15 | Go round the other side and stand near mummy , then you 'll be on me picture |
| 16 | Basic impulses towards such things as food , drink , warmth and sex are called particular passions by Butler , and stand in contrast to self love ( or prudence ) and benevolence which are the desire to have a maximal balanced satisfaction of the particular passions either in ourselves or in others . |
| 17 | ‘ He teaches us funny things like how to be frightened and stand in corners or how to walk around without your hands in your pockets . ’ |
| 18 | When the whites are firm and stand in peaks , whisk in I tablespoon of the caster sugar for I minute . |
| 19 | Dress yourself now and stand in rank . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ There 's one person you meet sitting in a restaurant having a chat , and then that person will go and put on a see-through lurex all-in-one bodice and stand in front of 10,000 people and make a complete cunt of himself and not think about it . |
| 21 | ‘ Anne , go and stand in front of the class . ’ |
| 22 | I jump up and stand in front of them . |
| 23 | On that day , a member of the creditor 's staff must dress in his best suit , proceed to the debtor 's offices , and stand in line with perhaps 30 or 40 other representatives . |
| 24 | Horses which have a day off per week and stand in need to be in loose boxes ( stables ) |
| 25 | We have got to go and stand outside Marks and Spencers and ask questionnaires and we 've got ta do the same in Wimbourne . |
| 26 | Are you gon na go and stand outside Marks and Spencers and get arrested ? |
| 27 | In the post-war period and until the 1970s the content of Marshall 's citizenship — which has been called a ‘ citizenship of entitlement ’ — expanded in various ways : the political element in the form of the right to vote and stand for election grew to include participation in the political process through a proliferation of pressure groups ; the civil element was enhanced through anti-discrimination legislation , and the UK 's signature of the European Convention on Human Rights . |
| 28 | Moreover , some topics are placed by law within the ( co-determination ) jurisdiction of the works council , a formally union-independent system of interest representation in which all eligible employees may vote and stand for election regardless of union membership . |
| 29 | Thirdly , and I find it most worrying , it states here that this motion welcomes the concept of European citizenship , which throughout th through the Maastricht 's Treaty will give E C citizens the right to vote and stand in European and local elections wherever they reside in the community . |
| 30 | Actually , I 'm afraid I 'm sorry that mike seems to be dead , you 're going to have to come round and stand in front of all these hundred and fifty , three hundred people here doctor . |