Example sentences of "stood [adv prt] for [pers pn] " 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 I stood up for him and said it was rubbish , and told all the black players to quit training .
4 But Mike Medavoy , head of Orion Pictures and producer of Colors stood up for him , saying , ‘ Give the kid a break .
5 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 .
6 Clare stood up for me .
7 ‘ 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 . ’
8 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 .
9 There were two other things that stood out for me , though .
10 I have to say that the galleries were the thing which stood out for me this week , apart from the fine golf played .
11 Ewen Mackay stood back for him to enter .
12 She stood back for him to see the roe deer .
13 Walking along the top landing , he flung open a door at the end , and stood back for her to enter .
14 She drew aside the curtain of a small window and stood back for me to see the picture thus revealed .
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