Example sentences of "stood [prep] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A founding member of the Christian Democrat Party ( PDC ) and a former ambassador to the USA under the 1964-70 Frei government , Tomic stood as the PDC presidential candidate in the 1970 elections which brought Salvador Allende to power . |
| 2 | He also claimed his party would ‘ kick-start ’ the Mike Potter , who stood for the SDP in the 1989 Richmond by-election , said he would n't be standing in the forthcoming general Labour 's Tony Blair , Tory Michael Fallon and Lib Dem 's Alan Beith clashed in a live TV debate over the NHS . |
| 3 | Harry stood for the Isle of Man parliament in November officially Independent , ideologically Conservative . |
| 4 | The same year , 1958 , Albert Duff , a Belfast Alderman and the superintendent of a small mission hall , stood for the Stormont Parliament in the Iveagh constituency . |
| 5 | The first Kowloon station stood opposite the Hong Kong Star Ferries terminal . |
| 6 | Local scouts and guides lined the route through the cemetery to the memorial , where Scotland 's chief law officer , the Lord Advocate , Lord Fraser , stood alongside the US ambassador , Mr Henry Catto . |
| 7 | I asked him what it felt like when he stood in the Richmond Building Foyer . |
| 8 | Dr. Upshall stood in the Richmond by-election in 1989 , the last county council elections and Darlington borough elections last May . |
| 9 | Thomas Walsingham , who stood in the St Albans tradition of writing history from the baronial point of view , wrote a ferociously hostile attack on him which may well reflect popular feeling . |
| 10 | The elegant old Price building stood in the Plaza del Rey , right at the heart of Madrid 's banking and commercial district . |
| 11 | Michael and Geoffrey stood in the Griersons ' front garden . |
| 12 | The stranger stood in the Fournier 's drawing-room in a simple white dress and some jewellery . |
| 13 | Etruria , the model village build by Josiah Wedgwood ( q.u ) for the workers in his pottery factory , stood beside the Trent and Mersey Canal at Hanley . |
| 14 | Twenty pleasant minutes retraced the morning 's steps and I stood beside the Land Rover waving goodbye and listening to the blue van 's familiar toots as it continued north . |
| 15 | Vice-chairman Sydney Moss revealed : ‘ He came here at the age of four , then stood on the Kop when he was old enough . |
| 16 | Ron Paget 's Rover stood outside the Swan , the more plushy of the two pubs . |
| 17 | She got to her feet and stood over the Dalek Killer 's body . |
| 18 | At Alice Fernie and Stanley Curtis who stood at the Fernies ' gate . |
| 19 | ‘ There is another way back , ’ he said quietly as Maggie stood by the Land Rover and cast a rather fearful eye up the valley . |
| 20 | Both France and England stood by the SARB in their hour of need . |