Example sentences of "[pron] stood up [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I stood up for a gasp of air , ducked down again , searching with fingers , with feet , with urgency turning to appalling alarm . |
| 2 | If I stood up on the walkway , I thought , I could probably stretch up and touch the ceiling , but would n't be able to reach the hole . |
| 3 | Most attention concentrated on the last sentence of my statement which I had inserted just before I stood up in the House of Commons : |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm a Bank Assistant ’ , was the first thing she said when she stood up at a recent IBOA meeting . |
| 5 | The boat too affected her profoundly ; she had never been on a boat before , except for a rowing boat in the park , and she stood up on the top deck in the bitter grey April wind , and watched the foam and the emptiness and the receding bar of Folkestone , and she thought that she had never seen anything so wonderful in her life . |
| 6 | She stood up in the boat . |
| 7 | Those returning Marines crashed their arms across their spreadeagle-painted chest plastrons , saluting Lord Pugh who stood up on a high balcony of traceried wrought tungsten . |
| 8 | We cheered three Egyptians who stood up in the body of the hall and cried , ‘ We want Nasser ’ . |
| 9 | It stood up to the race well and he and co-driver John Anthony had a fabulous time . |
| 10 | We told Frank that we would support him if he stood up to the little tyrant , that he would feel better if he did , citing our own experiences , mine in particular . |
| 11 | Deeply committed to the pursuit of mathematics and the physical sciences , he stood up for the universities when they were attacked by vituperative radicals such as Cromwell 's army chaplain , John Webster . |
| 12 | He stood up with a muttered curse of impatience , and when the lightning flashed a little while later she caught a glimpse of his hunched back . |
| 13 | He stood up at the same time as she did , and caught her as she made for the door . |
| 14 | He stood up like a man in a dream . |
| 15 | He stood up in the controlled , fluid style she was beginning to recognise as peculiarly his , and came around the desk again . |
| 16 | As he spoke , so Ray Doyle 's voice hardened , and he stood up from the armchair , hoping that Jack Stone was getting the message : the favour was over . |
| 17 | He stood up from the flight deck console and crossed over to where Postine lay , successfully sedated , on a buttress . |