Example sentences of "[noun] to stand [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He stood up and walked across the deck to stand by the chromium guard rail , looking down at her . |
| 2 | However , some 300 members of the National Peasants ' Party staged a march on Jan. 7 through the centre of Bucharest in memory of those killed by the Securitate during the revolution and to protest against the NSF decision to stand in the elections . |
| 3 | Now he had the opportunity to stand at the counter with one of his mates and talk about other things . |
| 4 | The attendant said there was a gentleman already undressing in No. 1 Frederica received no answer to her question about numéro sept , but was given permission to stand in the corridor of the train , which was already sliding away from its platform . |
| 5 | But this is not a time for personal pride and stubborn resistance to stand in the way of the cold , hard facts of life . |
| 6 | Norman Porter , the general secretary of the National Union of Protestants and at that time still a close colleague of Ian Paisley , had been asked by a number of conservative clergymen to stand against the Minister for Education in order to protest against amendments to the Education Act which increased and regularized state funding of Catholic schools . |
| 7 | Nevertheless the underlying sentiment had a good deal to do with Iraq 's inability to stand by the treaty it had signed with Britain at Portsmouth in 1948 , and resentment aroused by post-war developments in Palestine did little to help . |
| 8 | At 1807 Ruby and Arthur Reed II launched from the slipway to stand by the vessel and proceeded on service with Coxswain Richard Davies in command . |
| 9 | On May 8 Martin Shikuku , interim secretary-general of the party , declared his intention to stand for the presidency . |
| 10 | The girl mounted the steps to stand beside the master of ceremonies and they carried on a conversation which , though audible , was unintelligible . |
| 11 | When Joseph Parker urged a radical reorganization of the Congregational Union to create a ‘ Congregational Church ’ he asked pointedly , ‘ What right has Congregationalism to stand outside the law of evolution ? ’ |
| 12 | Get the schoolmaster to stand in the puddle or a stream , preferably on a hot day when splashing could be associated with cooling off . |
| 13 | This has come about because southern politics were so dominated by the Democratic party in the century after the Civil War that many of its Senators and Representatives faced sterner re-election contests in the Primary elections within their own party ( i.e. for the right to stand for the Democrats again ) than they did against the Republicans in the election itself . |
| 14 | He listened silently , simply nodding when she had finished He could never marry her and he had no right to stand in the way of any happiness she could find . |
| 15 | Sincerely though I respect the wish of hon. Members on both sides of the House to ensure that their constituents can benefit from access to the channel tunnel — I have no desire to stand in the way of their efforts to make that wish come true — I urge that the interests of my constituents , who will have to put up with untold misery for an extended eight-year period , should be given closer consideration than BR has given them hitherto . |
| 16 | It will cost £7 to stand on the terraces at St James 's Park from August and £270 for season tickets in the Milburn and East stands . |
| 17 | ‘ Why do n't you bribe a waiter to stand outside the door ? ’ she snapped back , then stalked past him without a backward glance , acutely aware of the small smile playing at the corners of his mouth as his gaze followed her . |
| 18 | After a welcome and introductory talk by Sylvia Townson , the theatre 's public relations officer , visitors were able to wander all over the Edwardian building with most grabbing the chance to stand behind the footlights for a thespians ' eye view of the ornate auditorium . |
| 19 | Franco and his henchmen had undoubtedly allowed the monarchists to stand in the hope that they would be discredited by defeat . |
| 20 | Konstantinos Karamanlis , a former state President and founder of New Democracy , had on Feb. 10 turned down ND 's request to stand for the presidency . |
| 21 | Some experienced speakers ask a friend to stand against the back wall and signal with hands facing forward by their ears if you need to speak louder , and with hands horizontal if you should speak more softly . |
| 22 | With the installation of the engines , Bob MacSmythurs , the chief engineer , had gone down to Lowestoft to stand by the ship during the last stages of installing the complex machinery . |
| 23 | The court recognised that it did have a discretion under the Rules of the Supreme Court to allow service to stand despite the failure to comply with the relevant Rules , but declined to do so on the facts ; it would take ‘ a very strong case ’ , for example express representation by the defendant that the method of service adopted was lawful , before the discretion would be exercised . |
| 24 | In practice , however , such is the scope for self-interest to stand in the way of the smooth running of the firm that the right of any one partner to veto some proper alteration should be excluded . |
| 25 | From the start , he was in conflict with the DUP 's leadership who tried to persuade him not to accept the local branch 's nomination to stand for the Assembly . |
| 26 | I ate the biscuits in one go and walked on to the boat , climbing up the decks to stand at the back . |
| 27 | The organizers of the exhibition wanted a Boston Tacker to stand in the foyer to tie in with the theme of the seventy fifth anniversary of the B U locating however , locating the complete model has proved something of a headache like the Model T Ford , the Boston Tacker was always very common but is now something of a rarity and the branch had finally settled for head to be borrowed from C and J Clarke , shoe machi , museum in Street , Somerset . |
| 28 | Each member receives an Annual Report and the opportunity to propose people to stand for the Executive Committee . |
| 29 | The brothers chatted with their father Prince Charles and the Duke of Edinburgh while the family lingered in front of a crowd of around 600 who braved a cold misty Norfolk morning to stand outside the church . |
| 30 | Angels posed obligingly in front of my easel and it was nothing for Christ to stand on the river in front of this Mill . |