Example sentences of "stood [adv] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Carewscourt has stood successfully against the elements for more than two hundred years . ’ |
| 2 | We have stood up for the values our country has always represented . |
| 3 | The Fontanellatesi , like all Italians , felt happy ; happy that they had stood up to the Fascists , and happy that they had helped the escaped prisoners . |
| 4 | Only the Jews and the Iranians stood up to the Romans , as they had stood up to the Seleucids . |
| 5 | Before October the anarchists had stood closest to the Bolsheviks , and had been every bit as radical in their determination to overthrow the Provisional Government . |