Example sentences of "stood [adv prt] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or he stood in for one or other of the teachers , notably Miss Gilberd when she wanted to ‘ pop home ’ , or Mr McWhirter when he failed altogether to arrive . |
| 2 | I mean , you stood up for four hits , Mouse ? ’ |
| 3 | I stood up for six questions , not least for question No. 3 , in which I have a constituency interest . |
| 4 | Is it not time the hon. Gentleman did the job he is paid for and stood up for British sport ? |
| 5 | She has been discovered by the feminists , who have rescued her from being seen as a minor pastoralist ; but in certain cases , they have also subject her to psycho-symbolic sexual analysis which she would have loathed , or blamed her for not having cared more for sexual politics or stood out for lesbian sexuality . |