Example sentences of "stand [prep] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm just going to wipe out everyone who stands between me and whoever 's running this place . |
| 2 | Moreover , Unix System Labs and Novell Inc are believed to be antagonistic and resentful of UI if for no other reason than it stands between them and their OEM customers . |
| 3 | Not that what I say makes any difference , because these two are still eyeing each other like welterweights at the weigh-in , and Darius stands between them like a referee . |
| 4 | LIGHT BULBS are a symbol of all that stands between us and the greenhouse effect . |
| 5 | If a negated conjunct is really necessary in some condition , then the standard trick is to introduce a new predicate which stands for it . |
| 6 | MacLachlan successfully obtained through Milton 's aid a delay in a foreclosure by the Royal Bank , and the freeholder hoped to persuade the politician to continue to stand between him and his creditors because of the value of his vote to the Argyll interest , arguing that |
| 7 | Fergus had fallen back across the table and Taliesin and Fribble both moved to stand between him and the Lad . |
| 8 | Though this may sound childish — and I was in fact childish in many ways , as young women are who have never had to shift for themselves but have always had someone to stand between them and the world — it did , in fact , help me to behave better to Nonni , who was not stupid at all in matters of feeling , and easy to hurt . |
| 9 | It had already dawned on the girl that , from this moment on , she was on her own , and that there was nobody to stand between her and whatever might be devised for her in the future . |
| 10 | Unfortunately Nut began to suffer from vertigo so Re provided pillars to hold her up and instructed Shu , the air , to stand between her and the earth . |
| 11 | I 've told you , he 's got this mania for her : not only would he take us to court but … but I think he 'd kill anybody who dared to stand between her and him . |
| 12 | ‘ The idea I have in view whilst I make the demonstration ’ may be of a particular right-angled triangle with sides of a certain length , but I may , nevertheless , be sure that it holds of all right-angled triangles if , by not mentioning the ways in which it differs from them , I use this one to stand for them all . |
| 13 | I was n't going to stand for it anyway . |
| 14 | She decided then and there that she was not going to stand for it . |
| 15 | ROS : ( Near tears ) I 'm not going to stand for it ! |
| 16 | She just is n't going to stand for it . |
| 17 | She did n't have to stand for it ! |
| 18 | In 1924 , two Labour candidates stood unopposed in the Stamford municipal election and this prompted Leese and fellow Fascist Henry L. Simpson , an engineer , to stand against them . |
| 19 | Well , there 's never been a man to stand against me and see another day ! ’ |
| 20 | She felt the hard wood press against her back and buttocks , as she was forced to stand against it . |
| 21 | I have found that erm it seems basically to be a very pessimistic kind of fiction , more pessimistic than people have often given it credit for , largely because they tend to see , for example in Dashiell Hammett , who 's the author I 'm most interested in from this period , erm a precursor of a lot of heroes , private eyes , who were said to have a very kind of steely moral integrity , which they balance against a general corruption in the world outside , and it does seem to me that in fact with Hammett the detective mirrors the corruption of that world as much as he stands against it , so that it does seem to me rather pessimistic . |
| 22 | Where the latter have rejected other gods in favour of the one they wish to follow , the former has attempted to assimilate the many gods in which it believes into a single Deity who stands behind them as their ground . |
| 23 | The aim behind this use of the Commissioner 's name is twofold : to give assisted persons more assurance that the Commissioner stands behind them in the proceedings , and to increase public awareness of the grant of assistance and of the Commissioner . |
| 24 | if there are if there are other restrictions then I say section fourteen is automatically void in it 's entirety because it reinforces , it has to be independent effect of reinforcing the other restrictions it stands behind them boosting them on |
| 25 | As one former NVA officer put it , ‘ in terms of the purely military situation , when the commander stands behind me , I have to shoot . |
| 26 | Should we say ‘ An experience which stands behind it ’ ? |
| 27 | ‘ Yeah , well , ’ Andy says , coming to stand near me and look out over the water . |
| 28 | He waved us across the room to stand behind him . |
| 29 | Is he to stand behind her , to take her right hand in his right and to lift it over her head while their clasped left hands stretch sideways before they move swiftly and diagonally into an allement ? |
| 30 | I get this real strong urge to stand behind her and put my arms round her and give her a hug , but I do n't move . |