Example sentences of "[pron] stand [adv prt] [prep] [noun] " 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 stand out of sight . |
| 3 | ‘ Oh , there were good times and bad times , ’ said Connor , adding reminiscently , ‘ Did I ever tell you of the night I stood up to Jack Johnson ? ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I stood out like Moby Dick . |
| 6 | ‘ We are delighted with the results so far , especially the performance , which stands up to comparison with the rest of the sports car world . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Layton described the four things which stand out in Leonard , which give him the confidence to work as he does , and promote his work : The strong tradition of learning ; the business entrepreneurship of his family ; the broad philanthropy/charity which hall-marked it ; and , lastly , the self-awareness that comes from being a Cohen — not understood as class-distinction , but from the high symbolism of ‘ the priest and his role . ’ |
| 9 | Out of this maelstrom we can select only a few thinkers and those ideas which stand out in retrospect as marking out the major developments and as setting the scene for more recent times . |
| 10 | And I get it green for when she stands up in class . |
| 11 | Cordelia , Kent , and France , who stand up to Lear , and whose judgement mutually reinforces one another , are right then , and are shown to be right by the way the action develops . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The structured the structured thought patterns gave me an actual er organisation to my talk be it only just a few words on a piece of paper it was simple yet er gave the organisation to the actual talk while you stood up in front of an audience . |
| 14 | She stood up in annoyance . |
| 15 | Like a rabbit she ran across the course to intercept Anmer and as the horse was hugging the rails she stood up in front of him holding both her hands above her head , and then sprang at him . |
| 16 | In a discussion with Jenny Ball , we talked about those women teachers who stood up for women 's rights . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | In recent years , however , a less simplified and more generous interpretation has emerged , as noted , for instance , by Syroechkovskii : ‘ It is now clear beyond doubt that shamans were usually quite poor individuals , who stood out by reason of their intelligence or personality , and their authority was normally based upon this ’ . |
| 19 | Eithne , an accomplished singer who stood in for Barbara Dickson in Blood Brothers at London 's Lyric Theatre , says she left the soap because there was no future development for her Mrs Rogers . |
| 20 | The widely tipped favourite is Mr Peter Brooke , who stood down as Northern Ireland Secretary in the post-election Cabinet reshuffle . |
| 21 | What are the skills that we need when we stand up in front of people to actually deliver what we have to say |
| 22 | We stand up like enthusiasts |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Look and see 'ow they stands out against t'brown o' t'earth . |
| 26 | Even Thatcherite loyalists were reported to be discussing the possibility of persuading her to stand down in favour of Major . |
| 27 | They stand around with rulers and clipboards . |
| 28 | ‘ And they stand around in pentacles trying to raise the Devil ? ’ |
| 29 | In particular , both demand of their philosophical accounts that they stand up to criticism based on the history of science . |
| 30 | The one thing that really marks them out is good preparation , so that when they stand up in court they have n't got to think much about the content cos it 's at their finger tips , they know it , they know Mrs Brown 's age , they know how many children she 's got , they have n't got to think about it . |