Example sentences of "[noun] stand [adv] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She drew comparisons between the present crisis concerning Iraq 's invasion of Kuwait and the experience of 1938 , declaring that " Czechoslovakia of all countries needs no reminding of the need for nations to stand up to bullies and do so at once " . |
| 2 | He made a macabre figure standing there with wires up his nose and the whites of his uprolled eyes showing through his empty faceplate . |
| 3 | Live snakes stood in for ropes , constricting viciously . |
| 4 | The veins in Jonadab 's neck stood out like whipcords , as he tried to control his voice . |
| 5 | Nana was small and scrawny , and the sinews in her neck stood out like guy-ropes above the demure white collar of her dark blue dress . |
| 6 | It was pointed out to him — a small , plain , vaulted room with only a table for an altar and gaily-painted saints carved in wood standing about like skittles at a fair . |
| 7 | They watched the horses follow the tractor round the ever narrowing stand of corn in the centre of the field , and the tinkers who came to get work stood by with dogs and shot the rabbits that came surging out . |
| 8 | In the semi-darkness the houses around the village and the church in the centre of the green stood out like monuments with their shadows changing their shapes from time to time as a cloud obscured part of the moon . |
| 9 | They were told , now was the time to find the courage to stand up to terrorists , |
| 10 | Runner still stood motionless , eyes staring straight ahead , the blue veins in his bulbous red nose standing out like lines on a map . |
| 11 | After a muttered exchange through the bars , the captain ordered two of his officers to stand by with pistols drawn while he unfastened the padlocks . |
| 12 | Two practical problems stand out above others in precipitating the predictable management action . |
| 13 | Canals within the algae stand out as rods in this kind of preservation , which is common in Ordovician rocks . |
| 14 | At the recent JANE 'S ADDICTION gig at The Marquee , people were not so much holding onto their ears as trying to stop their eyeballs standing out on stalks , so plenteous were the glittering celebs out to cheer the visiting Americans on . |
| 15 | To her horror she came face to face with the two officers standing there with guns drawn . |
| 16 | He was n't going to be as heavily built as his father , but was lithe and agile , and she loved to watch him going after gulls ' eggs out by Blackbottle Rocks , his long legs braced against the cliff face and the muscles in his neck and back standing out like cords as he heaved himself up over a ledge . |
| 17 | Then , he could soak in the vivid feeling of the song until the sweat stood out in gobbets on his forehead and his veins swelled in his neck like vines and Nunzia and Maria Filippa listening would wring their hands , invoking the protection of all the saints against that winged demon Fate flapping at his back . |
| 18 | All the farmers stood apart in groups , looking around . |
| 19 | Below the knees her calf muscles stood out like grapefruits inside her stockings . |
| 20 | Other teams stood by with bits of wood pressing , like battering rams , on the pedals . |
| 21 | All of this finally resulted in ’ Maus ’ , his book-length comic strip version of the Holocaust in which pigs stand in for Nazis and mice for Jews . |
| 22 | An example was John Wilkins ' ‘ real character ’ of 1668 , in which symbols stood not for words but for things . |
| 23 | His white cotton gloves stood out like beacons on the steering wheel . |
| 24 | Regular spraying with this soot solution kept leaf miners off chrysanthemums standing outside in pots . |
| 25 | Pakistan 's judges have not in the past stood up to presidents . |
| 26 | Approaching from Cozumel or the north , the Mayan temple at Tulum in Mexico 's Yucatan province stands out from miles away , a square mass in a small indentation on an otherwise low-lying and featureless coastline . |
| 27 | HarperCollins stands out in terms of both quality and volume of titles published , with Little , Brown 's Orbit imprint and Random House 's Legend list also showing strongly . |
| 28 | The pale blue flowers stand out like jewels against dark , bare soil . |
| 29 | The dealers , exporters and wholesalers walking round inspecting the produce , discussing prices , negotiating ; the hangers-on standing about in groups smoking , chatting ; the market police and official inspectors strolling round seeing that all is in order . |
| 30 | Ill-dressed children stood around in groups , scowling at the intruders . |