Example sentences of "[verb] stand [adv prt] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As part of the deal Mr de Ferranti agreed to stand down in favour of Sir Derek and to allow James Guerin , International Signal 's founder , to come on to the board as deputy chairman . |
| 2 | Accordingly , nothing in his framework was designed to stand up for liberty where the legislature saw fit to intervene with new restrictive laws , or where the courts contrived to discover or develop them ; Dicey simply assumed that this would not occur . |
| 3 | The candidate who took third place in the first round , however , Manandafy Rakotonirina , was expected to stand down in favour of Zafy . |
| 4 | Thank goodness for people prepared to stand up to authority and tackle the system they believe is wrong . ’ |
| 5 | So you 're going to stand up in front of a judge and say all that , are you , Wally ? |
| 6 | You 're going to stand up in front of a hundred or so of your closest friends and tell them your deepest , most private thoughts . ’ |
| 7 | At the election he stood as the architect 's architect , pledged to stand up for quality of design . |
| 8 | Well of course tha that might just be intimidation by large numbers of other people , like you know having to stand up in front of a group of other people , I think anybody feels the same . |
| 9 | Some a lot of you said yesterday that you do n't always get in this formal situation having to stand up in front of people . |
| 10 | With output recovering , the prime minister , Hanna Suchocka decided to stand up to Solidarity 's threat to call a general strike . |
| 11 | I mean we do n't whether she sort of it does n't say whether she volunteered to go and talk to the people in the school , but even so it 's quite it takes quite a lot of doing to stand up in front of a group of people you do n't know and talk about the work . |
| 12 | Fans in the seats are asked to stand up in solidarity . |
| 13 | There he was encouraged to stand up in front of other patients and describe his own particular addiction . |
| 14 | Can I make it fair Mr chairman that erm obviously with all ours being mainly caretakers , it would only be fair to , to the actual caretaker erm person who looks after caretaking , to only invite cos otherwise you 've got ta get stand in for school which will cause problems . |
| 15 | The whole system had been constructed to stand up to earthquake pressures . |
| 16 | We all had to stand up in turn in front of the class and give a short talk , followed by a question-and-answer session . |
| 17 | An important lesson that has been learnt from the Beck case is that it is time for art historians to stop standing by in cowardice and make responsible evaluations of the restoration techniques used . |
| 18 | That was the man who the same year had stood up in front of the full pad and launched into his celebrated five-hour denunciation of Joseph Stalin . |
| 19 | Miss Harker was certainly very charming and many had hoped that her arrival might bring them some relief , but not one of them wanted to stand up in front of the boss 's relative and complain about the mill . |
| 20 | Germans have stood up for freedom . |
| 21 | Those people have stood up for justice , despite the abuse that they received from the public . |