Example sentences of "and stand up " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sequence of modern physiotherapy treatment normally follows a pattern : the patient has to recover his ability to balance first and foremost ; then he has to recover his ability to transfer his weight from side to side ; standing balance is the next stage , accompanied by the ability to sit down from standing up , and to stand up from sitting ; selective movements using the affected arm and leg come next ; then he learns to make steps , followed by walking ; function in the upper limb ( arm ) and controlling it in order to make selective movements against gravity happens at a late stage ; the final rehabilitation task is to regain functional , detailed movements in the affected hand and foot . |
| 2 | Other writers have emphasized the narrow social strata from which judges are drawn and have questioned the degree to which they are able to relate to ordinary people and to stand up against the powerful and the rich . |
| 3 | Up until April , you have Mars giving you the incentive to earn more and to stand up for yourself whenever the threat of a monetary show-down appears over the horizon . |
| 4 | If you charged Musicians Union rates no one hired you : if you did n't , your fellow musicians hated you : and to stand up there on a platform for four hours disappointing a room full of people was not his idea of living . |
| 5 | In the UK in the year to come , Joe Public will continue to pay the price ( perhaps with his life ) until he is a better citizen and stands up and protests enough about it . |
| 6 | Then she pushes the blanket off and stands up . |
| 7 | She pats my knee and stands up . |
| 8 | Everyone laughs and I think I said the wrong thing , but Peter smiles at me and stands up . |
| 9 | And in ‘ Macbeth ’ , ‘ when Tarquin ‘ rapes ’ the crown , and the Boar climbs into Duncan 's slashed skin and stands up King of Scotland ’ , one must simply groan , because for all the tortuous extravagance of metaphor , and the twists and turns of myth intended to give it power like twisted elastic , one is not being told anything novel . |
| 10 | A man sitting in a group , leaning against the wall of the shrine , starts shaking and stands up , throwing aside the woollen blanket he wears as a shawl and kicking off his shoes . |
| 11 | No matter : as the Ultra to Shakespeare 's Enigma , Hughes continues relentlessly to crack the code of symbolic language and translate it into his own cryptological system : ‘ [ Othello ] plunges into the skein of Iago 's Adonis words , and stands up in them transformed , as Tarquin stood up transformed in the skin of Adonis , over the bed of Lucrece . |
| 12 | He scrambles out backward and stands up , conscious of the dust on his shirt . |
| 13 | Jamie drains his coffee and stands up . |
| 14 | The gluteus maximus muscle in the buttocks makes it possible to pull the legs back , push the hips forward and stand up straight . |
| 15 | This is the music playing in a thousand thousand houses while we have our drinks and eat our meals and stand up and shout . |
| 16 | Now I can put both feet flat on the floor and stand up straight without slouching or bending a knee or looking strained in any way . |
| 17 | It should be noted before going any further that for a sample survey to be of any value at all the sampling procedure must be open to scrutiny and stand up to criticism . |
| 18 | Will you leave go , lad , and stand up … |
| 19 | LEGO : Ole Kirk Christiansen , a jobless carpenter in Denmark , had the idea to make good toys that would appeal to children 's imaginations and stand up to rough handling . |
| 20 | And stand up when you speak to me ! ’ |
| 21 | Your chances of getting what you want out of life improve greatly when you let others know what you want and stand up for your own rights and needs . |
| 22 | The works , in whatever medium , must be self-sufficient and stand up for themselves . |
| 23 | People who want to see a strong , unified , modern , industrial China created which is able to defend its territorial integrity , its independence and stand up for itself er in the world . |
| 24 | and stand up on the pedals as I passed |
| 25 | There appear to be four main Soviet categories for Latin American regimes : ( i ) ‘ revolutionary democratic ’ states or ( a label rarely applied ) states of ‘ socialist orientation ’ , such as post-1979 Nicaragua and 1979–83 Grenada ; ( ii ) capitalist , yet ‘ progressive ’ and ‘ anti-imperialist regimes which are willing to be friendly to the Soviet Union and stand up to the United States , such as Mexico and panama ( particularly under General Omar Torrijos ( 1969–81 ) , who negotiated a treaty with the Carter administration providing for complete Panamanian sovereignty over the Canal by 1999 , a campaign that was strongly supported by Moscow ) . |
| 26 | " And forests do n't forget your trembly leaves And stand up straight and tall , " |
| 27 | In school I was prepared to handle my life and stand up for myself . |
| 28 | At Finsbury Park tube a shambling white man comes up , blood from a cut drying on his brow , trying to beg with dignity and stand up at the same time . |
| 29 | I leaned over the girl who was squirming like a landed fish trying to get her balance and stand up . |
| 30 | And , and draw it , and stand up and think how you 're going to do it , and maybe you sort of , you know , sit here or something , when I 've gone and face the window and say , that 's North , and I must make sure I get it set up , get this the right way up and , |