Example sentences of "stood [adv prt] for [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1469 , King Louis XI of France conferred with King Henry IV of Castile here ; in 1526 the captive King Francis I was exchanged for his two sons , who stood in for him as hostages with his great enemy , the Emperor Charles V ; in 1659 , the Peace of the Pyrenees between France and Spain was negotiated on the island ; and a year later , the contract of marriage was signed which consolidated that epoch-making treaty , between Louis XIV and the Infant a ( it was while helping to decorate the Spanish pavilion for the occasion that the painter Velázquez is said to have caught his death of cold ) . |
| 2 | Sometimes the actors went back up to their dressing-rooms for an hour at a stretch while she and Geoffrey stood in for them , posing languidly at the fireplace or leaning back on the settee , twirling empty wine glasses . |
| 3 | In earlier times , the family had often held the key to power and women had more opportunity to influence affairs : thus , in feudal times , the Lady of the Manor supervised a large household , exercised great practical authority over both men and women , and stood in for her husband in his frequent absences from home . |
| 4 | John Bate stood in for his father during his frequent absences — he suffered from chronic bronchitis — giving evidence to several parliamentary commissions on weights and measures before his own early death of consumption in 1840 . |
| 5 | This is not to say that the simplistic socialist argument — that all would be well if only Labour stood up for its class interests with the same vigour that the Tories stand up for theirs — is correct . |
| 6 | I stood up for him and said it was rubbish , and told all the black players to quit training . |
| 7 | But Mike Medavoy , head of Orion Pictures and producer of Colors stood up for him , saying , ‘ Give the kid a break . |
| 8 | Joe is a very kind man and always was Pip 's friend and stood up for him , but after he wants more , he is embarrassed . |
| 9 | His finest hour was when , as a member of the Royal Commission , he stood up for their interests and dissented valiantly from the majority . |
| 10 | Clare stood up for me . |
| 11 | ‘ He was always the one cast member who always stood up for me if there were any bleating from Equity members about them not getting their money from repeats , compilations and so on . ’ |
| 12 | Their administrators then proceeded to act in accordance with what they took to be the finest traditions of their service and stood up for them . |
| 13 | ‘ I stood up for what 's right . |
| 14 | I mean lunch time we were hearing how , because they stood up for what was right , it was over the killing of soldiers and that , this man job and actually he more or less said that he was something wrong with his head did n't he ? |
| 15 | I 'm sure Father Chris would be pleased to hear that and would be very flattered to hear that as well but erm he 's erm I 'm sure he does try to live by those rules because er obviously that 's one of the bases of his life but erm I was thinking more in terms of somebody who stood up for themse stood up for what they believe in in a situation where it was difficult . |
| 16 | The 35-year-old gave birth to his son a year ago and stood up for her husband during his trial . |
| 17 | I wanted to pick someone who saw herself as part of the community and yet stood up for her rights . |
| 18 | Well , it 's time we men stood up for ourselves . |
| 19 | There were two other things that stood out for me , though . |
| 20 | I have to say that the galleries were the thing which stood out for me this week , apart from the fine golf played . |
| 21 | Ewen Mackay stood back for him to enter . |
| 22 | She stood back for him to see the roe deer . |
| 23 | Walking along the top landing , he flung open a door at the end , and stood back for her to enter . |
| 24 | She drew aside the curtain of a small window and stood back for me to see the picture thus revealed . |