Example sentences of "can stand [adv prt] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can stand up for myself . |
| 2 | I can stand up for myself . ’ |
| 3 | On April 26 it was announced that Tesfaye Dinka , Deputy Prime Minister in charge of Foreign Affairs and a US-trained economist , had been made Prime Minister ( a post vacant since November 1989 ) , with a brief to form a new Cabinet composed of individuals " who can stand up for Ethiopian unity " . |
| 4 | , well I hope he can stand up for himself , you know . |
| 5 | A clenched fist , a frosty stare or a head-thrust , feet-planted , arms-akimbo posture , being recognizable as proper parts or adjuncts to acts of real violence , can stand in for the real thing in the ritualized ‘ aggression ’ to be described in a later chapter of this book . |
| 6 | So information sources can stand in for what we do not automatically know . |