Example sentences of "[pron] stand [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The women have become more feminist in their outlook and this has helped them to stand up against the men of the villages and take a firm stance in their lives . |
| 2 | Sometimes in the Cauldhame Arms I stand up at the urinal , but most if it ends up running down my hands or legs . |
| 3 | I stand up in the entrance of my bower , still in shadow . |
| 4 | As always when drawing , I stand back from the piece at regular intervals to get an overall feel as to how the drawing is developing , and to see if it is uniform in shade and texture . |
| 5 | As always when drawing , I stand back from the piece at regular intervals to get an overall feel as to how the drawing is developing , and to see if it is uniform in shade and texture . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Most attention concentrated on the last sentence of my statement which I had inserted just before I stood up in the House of Commons : |
| 8 | ‘ Good bye , Granny , I 'll try to be a good girl , ’ I sobbed before I stood back for the undertaker to screw down the lid . |
| 9 | It is a small but spread-out , almost incoherent town , the pleasantest part of which stands up above the river and has a row of modest hotels . |
| 10 | Forests get hacked down because nobody stands up to the logging industry . |
| 11 | Around the margins of the hill , the termites construct tall , thin-walled chimneys which stand out from the sides like ribs . |
| 12 | Vice-chair was Wolfgang Thierse , who had been elected chair of the East German SPD on June 9 , 1990 , in place of Markus Meckel ( himself standing in since the March resignation of Ibrahim Böhme — see p. 37302 ) . |
| 13 | It was the worn-down plug of an old volcano which stood out from the lowland plain . |
| 14 | The only paper which stood out against the tide was the Communist Party 's Morning Star . |
| 15 | The village school , now quiet behind its white palings in the morning sunshine , was next in the row , and beside it was a well-built house of Cotswold stone which stood back from the green . |
| 16 | But then I 've got ta meet Emma and she stands up at the top . |
| 17 | The contemporary hero is one who stands out against the crowd to fulfil a personal destiny . |
| 18 | Junior Bent ( Bristol City , 12.06 ) , Efan Ekoku ( Bournemouth , 12.07 ) , Adrian Littlejohn ( Sheff Utd , 12.08 ) , Iffy Onuora ( Huddersfield 12.09 ) , Keith Curle ( Man City , 12.10 ) , Rod McDonald ( Walsall , 12.18 ) , Tony Witter ( QPR , 12.19 ) and John Goodman ( Millwall , 12.40 ) , and late replacements Vance Warner ( Nottm Forest ) and Michael Brown ( Bolton ) , who stands in for the injured Stuart Storer ( 12.17 ) . |
| 19 | It 's the sort of thing it is easy to observe if you stand around in the garage during practice or generally stick around a team , watching who gets the first briefing , who is paying more attention to whom . |
| 20 | IT 'S that time of year when there seems to be a party every other night and it takes a little extra imagination to make you stand out from the crowd . |
| 21 | So will you stand down from the government after the elections ? |
| 22 | She standing up against the racial stereotype with purple hair . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | She stood up in the boat . |
| 25 | And similarly , most of the CTC and especially the , were utterly and outspokenly delighted when she stood down from the committee on moving to PLACE . |
| 26 | She stood out of the way of a party of scantily clad Scandinavian women who were leaving , then waited while her eyesight adjusted to the contrasting darkness . |
| 27 | Although there were many attractive women mingling with the tourists and officials in the bar , she stood out as the most desirable of them all . |
| 28 | Peter admired her for it ; he liked the way she stood out from the other wives . |
| 29 | She stood out from the general run of Tory women like a Bird of Paradise in Trafalgar Square . |
| 30 | We cheered three Egyptians who stood up in the body of the hall and cried , ‘ We want Nasser ’ . |