Example sentences of "stand the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do n't see how you can stand the celibacy when you do n't have to . |
| 2 | If you ca n't stand the heat , spend this winter with an old age pensioner . |
| 3 | When he could stand the silence no longer he went briskly into the other room . |
| 4 | ‘ Our sons are always fighting and I ca n't stand the strain any more ’ |
| 5 | ‘ After I stopped eating factory-farmed meat I now can not stand the feeling of eating flesh . |
| 6 | He had taken up the cello at Gordonstoun , when his housemaster , Bob Whitby , could stand the noise of the bagpipes — his chosen instrument — no longer . |
| 7 | I have gone into this rather lengthy description for two reasons : one , because it leads back into the folklore of the November Owl Pie , and two , because I ca n't stand the blighters at any price . |
| 8 | ‘ If you ca n't stand the heat , Richard , old boy , ’ an anonymous voice said . |
| 9 | The economy can stand the strain too : a 5 per cent drop in the GNP this year is deemed manageable . |
| 10 | The economy can stand the strain too : a 5 per cent drop in the GNP this year is deemed manageable . |
| 11 | Oh : car of menace , car of blight Cars the atmosphere ignite Greenhouse warming , Havoc forming Parkinson must see us right We 're au fait with entropy Gaia , Ecosphere , synergy Words for greening But their meaning 's A linguistic mystery Oh : politicians must invent Worship of environment Genuflecting by reflecting Words of verdant bafflement Now our water 's unfit to drink Too much aluminium and zinc No solution To pollution No-one can stand the stink Oh : public filth and pestilence Highlights private opulence Does the glitter , clear the litter All it needs is pounds and pence GOD REST YE MERRY God rest ye merry , gentle Greens Let nothing you dismay The much foretold apocalypse Is now well under way Not even Mr Gorbachev Can stop the world 's decay Oh , tidings of comfort and joy , Oh , tidings of comfort and joy We ca n't eat meat or hens or fish The farming is too cruel The only food we now permit Is foul organic gruel Irradiated food and veg Now double up as fuel Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Now everybody wants a car Though noise and fumes are vile The Iron Curtain fractures and The jams stretch back for miles Mobility and liberty Can not be reconciled Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy We think that greenhouse warming will Bring on the world 's demise If forests burn it 's not just trees but mankind too that fries But all this may be garbage Because scientists tell lies Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Consumers must buy less to reach Sustainability For galloping consumption is More lethal than TB So much for Third World dreams of fleeing Grinding poverty Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Unless we stop producing kids The planet will not cope No hope for birth controllers short of Kidnapping the Pope But since the Greens recycle people they May turn us into soap Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy In searching for clean energy The choice is pretty stark The floods that come when coal is burnt will keep us in the Ark But had Lord Marshall got his way We 'd all glow in the dark Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Dumb animals are much preferrred To flawed humanity Ill-treatment of old people may Provoke insanity But culling seals and whales is judged The worst profanity Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Now Mrs Thatcher goes bright green A highly suspect hue Her policies have after all Kept filth and squalor blue It 's just another way she 's found To tell us what to do Oh , tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy With greenhouse gases , PCBs Sulphuric acid rain This fragile globe 's environment Is going down the drain It is a cosmic punishment That we ca n't start again Oh , tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Melanie Phillips OVERNIGHT FILE |
| 12 | Not a true beauty , but the girl beckoned you off the paper ; confident , sexy , that face invited you to join in if you could stand the pace . |
| 13 | I used to like giving poetry readings , but in the end I had to give up , for I could not stand the socializing afterwards , as if my poetry had just been the excuse for a drinking spree à la Dylan Thomas . |
| 14 | I could not stand the ridiculous questions people came and posed about my work : ‘ But how do you find such interesting subjects for your poems , Mr Kirkup ? ’ |
| 15 | ‘ My father never could stand the sight of that cat afterwards , ’ said Mrs Browning . |
| 16 | ‘ Ca n't stand the false officers and their fancy women a moment longer . |
| 17 | He 's asked me to go along as wardrobe mistress , I said I 'd think about it but I ca n't stand the heat . |
| 18 | Many owners can not stand the thought of their animal going without sustenance for two or three days at a time , but the dog will inevitably eat when it is hungry enough . |
| 19 | BATMAN 2 ( can you stand the anticipation ? ) starts shooting in Mexico later this year , much to the displeasure of the British film industry : the original Pinewood set has been kept intact since last year at a cost of £60,000 per month . |
| 20 | Alternatively , you can stand the trays in shallow water until the compost surface appears moist . |
| 21 | No educated man could stand the Dissenters . ’ |
| 22 | For example , they can not stand the well-off , pushy , pleased-with-themselves , Tory young . |
| 23 | That meant that they could not stand the Central Office youths involved in the nuts and bolts of the campaign . |
| 24 | I ca n't stand the smell . |
| 25 | Even though he ca n't stand the sight of me , he 'll do anything to get me to play if he thinks it will help . |
| 26 | To be on the safe side why do n't we stand the zinc bath out the rear and let that fill up with rainwater ? ’ |
| 27 | Late on Sunday evening , William Prime could stand the pressure no more . |
| 28 | He could n't stand the idea of going back to the section-house , so he had taken a series of private lodgings . |
| 29 | At first the thought of going back to work made me shudder because I could n't stand the thought of leaving Danielle for an hour let alone a whole day , but once my husband Dave and I had left Danielle with a babysitter a couple of times , I realised that she would still be there when I came back and that she would be fine . |
| 30 | But I could not stand the humiliation of crossing the Allenby Bridge — at my age , being stripped and searched by a Zionist , Jew , a Pole , a Russian or a Romanian who is living in my country , in my home , asking me questions and searching me . |