Example sentences of "[verb] stand [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each item of such a carefully considered scheme will have been intended to stand in a specific position in Kent 's rooms . |
| 2 | In the Curragh Affair of 1914 some British officers appeared to claim to stand for a special national interest above that asserted by civilian politicians and their attitude would have been understood by professional soldiers in other countries . |
| 3 | A few days ago , when it had been snowing , I saw a group of Savoy cabbages standing frozen and benumbed , and it reminded me of a group of women in their thin petticoats and old shawls which I had seen standing in a little hot-water-and-coal shop early in the morning . ’ |
| 4 | Did she hope to stand in a winnable seat at the next election ? |
| 5 | You do n't have to stand in a classic karate or boxing stance to kick or punch someone . |
| 6 | Certainly , if the latter did not want to be represented or could easily apply for judicial review in person , there might be no good reason to accord standing to a self-appointed representative . |
| 7 | While temples built in the later eighteenth century may have stood in a naturalistic landscape inspired by the paintings of Claude , earlier garden buildings almost certainly stood in more formal settings , and fragments of avenues or long overgrown yew and beech hedges may remain . |
| 8 | Football meant standing on a muddy pitch hoping the ball would n't come anywhere near me , so that I would n't be forced to tackle some vicious little boy who really cared who won the game . |
| 9 | A lecturer visiting a student on teaching practice tells of being mistaken for a parent and being kept standing in a cold corridor while behind a closed door the head shouted and screamed at a tearful child . |
| 10 | The American novelist Thomas Wolfe wrote standing at a tall refrigerator — a chair and table being too cramped for the big mountain man — and he dropped unnumbered sheets , each with a few scrawled words , into a cardboard box at his feet . |
| 11 | Arthur Leopold of County Cork had taken the picture , and the first time Ellie had tiptoed into the bedroom she had stood for a long time staring at the photograph , because it was the first time she had ever seen the likeness of her dead mother . |
| 12 | So I had stood for a little while on the bridge and saluted as the ship went down after all . |
| 13 | He blamed political bias , but when he had stood as a Labour candidate in the 1945 elections in which the socialists swept to post-war victory , Hugo had not won his seat . |
| 14 | It is like viewing an Impressionist painting , where the viewer is required to stand at a certain distance before the image comes into focus ; the bigger the individual strokes of paint , the further back the viewer has to stand . |
| 15 | One prominent cinema organist would completely lose control of his feet when attempting to record ; the violinist Bronislaw Huberman needed perfect quiet , and could even hear a typist operating six storeys away , but Jan Kubelik , though always needing to stand on a rubber mat , had possessed perfect studio concentration . |