Example sentences of "[pron] stand [adv] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I know it all depends on me how I stand up to games and how I play . ’ |
| 2 | I stood up with knees that felt like buckling and tried to open the door into the dock ; and it was as immovable from outside as from in . |
| 3 | The simplest are fine earth spots , which stand out like molehills on a lawn and are often defined by rings of large pebbles or stones , which they appear to have shouldered aside . |
| 4 | A sedentary existence or a job that keeps you standing around for hours is liable to encourage a poor circulation as well as allowing the buttock and thigh muscles to become weak and flabby , making cellulite much worse . |
| 5 | She stood there for hours watching the stonemason so that when he returned the next day , he gave her a piece of stone and two chisels . |
| 6 | She stood there with hands on her hips , glaring with a face like thunder . |
| 7 | In a discussion with Jenny Ball , we talked about those women teachers who stood up for women 's rights . |
| 8 | Kate had come across them all her working life , from the solicitors who tried to get off known offenders to the social workers who stood up in courts of law and gave character references for people who should have been locked up once and for all . |
| 9 | He has to decide whether he should stay on pending a full trial of the bitter dispute between the two men , who stood side-by-side as saviours of the financially troubled club in 1991 . |
| 10 | We stand up like enthusiasts |
| 11 | Tumbleweed had vanished leaving a bundle of pondweed under his chair but everybody else seemed reluctant to go and we stood about in groups while Aunt Bedelia and the ladies of the WI handed round cups of tea . |
| 12 | And , while not denying the severity of Poland 's problems , the scale of economic hardship and poverty facing Africa makes them stand out as candidates for debt relief . |
| 13 | They stand around with rulers and clipboards . |
| 14 | ‘ And they stand around in pentacles trying to raise the Devil ? ’ |
| 15 | We can imagine them standing by for orders to levy and equip soldiers from among their lords ' tenants when the king summoned his tenants-in-chief to furnish them . |
| 16 | His thick white hair was cut short and unevenly , so that in parts it stood up in clumps . |