Example sentences of "and stand [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They talked until the horses , squealing and nipping at each other , turned away to hurry purposefully across the field and stand afar , clouds of their breath plumed against the winter air . |
| 2 | Football League President Gordon McKeag is set to resign his post and stand again as an independent candidate . |
| 3 | Make sure the mags are off , mixture is in ICO and stand well clear of the prop arc . |
| 4 | Whereas greens and blues are cool and make flowers seem to recede , reds and yellows are warm colours that attract attention and stand forward from paler flowers . |
| 5 | The gluteus maximus muscle in the buttocks makes it possible to pull the legs back , push the hips forward and stand up straight . |
| 6 | This is the music playing in a thousand thousand houses while we have our drinks and eat our meals and stand up and shout . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Will you leave go , lad , and stand up … |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | And stand up when you speak to me ! ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The works , in whatever medium , must be self-sufficient and stand up for themselves . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | and stand up on the pedals as I passed |
| 16 | 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 ) . |
| 17 | " And forests do n't forget your trembly leaves And stand up straight and tall , " |
| 18 | In school I was prepared to handle my life and stand up for myself . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | I leaned over the girl who was squirming like a landed fish trying to get her balance and stand up . |
| 21 | 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 , |
| 22 | Yes , yes well we ca n't talk you see , we do n't know , we do n't know what 's happening , but she 's been suffering a lot with her back just now and she put that off you know that because she 's not attending the meetings , she ca n't sit , and if she comes to the meetings she ca n't sit down , she stands up , props herself against the wall and stand up right at the back so , we do n't know you see |
| 23 | affairs and stand up and recite them |
| 24 | Antony Yes Antony , come and stand up over here now . |
| 25 | The sorts of experiences that you then get people talking about is really well I 've learnt to stand up for myself for the first time , erm I now know what I want to do , I know who I am , erm projects where I 've been involved , where you get women saying things like well two years ago I would never have dreamt of going and talking to the Council about my house , or my children , or that I ca n't get a job because I ca n't get child care , and I would n't have dreamt of doing that and people who now say well now I can do that , I know that I can go and stand up for myself and stand up for what I think is right , just as well as my husband can . |
| 26 | I 'm concerned with er third world issues and the wider world , and the need for the Church to be prophetic and stand up and be counted for the sake of justice . |
| 27 | You might have noticed however , that people can spend small fortunes on themselves , go out to all the trendy places and stand around admiring themselves in their fashionable clothes but find that no one thinks any better of them for it . |
| 28 | And she 'd take him off to the second-hand bookstall which specialized in the politics of the left , or to attend a useful meeting , and stand around with banners . |
| 29 | Cut the foam to fit the container and stand slightly taller than its sides . |
| 30 | and stand right on it ! |