Example sentences of "[prep] stand [adv prt] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It offers adventure , contacts and understanding of other cultures and the opportunity of standing up to pressure . |
| 2 | I am allowed a say on this question of standing up at football matches because I first planted my feet on the terraces at Barnsley when I was five and spent the next 15 years or more rooted to the spot . |
| 3 | A member of the Drayton class who was attending ante-natal classes demonstrated to other participants the best way of standing up after floorwork , and greatly impressed the class tutor . |
| 4 | It 's not just the end result of standing up in court and representing a client . |
| 5 | Washington insiders believe that she told her husband how she felt and suggested he should use the ‘ excuse ’ of Graves Disease , a condition affecting the heart rhythm which they both suffer from , as a way of standing down from office . |
| 6 | President Bill Clinton , giving his first formal press conference since he took office two months ago , said Mr Yeltsin had shown a great deal of courage in standing up for democracy , civil liberties and market reforms . |
| 7 | The Labour party has form in standing up for secrecy in local government , in opposing the publication of school results or of any other kind of league table . |
| 8 | How would you feel about standing up in front of a group of people and telling them something about I mean in her situation telling her class or even the whole what you were doing . |
| 9 | Until recently Saddam Hussein was supported only by a lunatic fringe in the Soviet Union ; the leader of Pamyat , an anti-Semitic group , praised him for standing up to Zionism . |
| 10 | If they moved against him as if he were a common criminal , he would retaliate by standing up in court and defending himself . |