Example sentences of "stood for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | She stood for a moment on the other side of the room , sizing me up ( and me sizing her up ) , and then she came over to speak to me . |
| 2 | Hundreds of eyes stared fixedly as the laird stepped out onto the gravel and stood for a moment with his chin jutting and his mouth pulled down , like a general reviewing his troops . |
| 3 | He stood for a minute , appraising the close-fitted timbers and sleek varnish , then knocked again . |
| 4 | I replaced the blanket over his head and stood for a few moments looking at the bodies in their neat little rows . |
| 5 | Mr Wolfgang Berghofer , the 46-year-old mayor of Dresden who had been tipped to become the new party chief , said yesterday that he and a renewed party stood for a break with Stalinism and instead wanted socialism with a human face . |
| 6 | In the theatre , a single chariot-wheel propelled across the stage stood for a whole army : in the film version , you have horses , chariots , contending extras . |
| 7 | The younger Dr Gysi used a term from the 1920s when he said he stood for a ‘ third path between Stalinism and capitalism ’ . |
| 8 | The Polish Parliament stood for a minute 's silence after approving unanimously a resolution which accused the Romanian authorities of ‘ exceptional brutality ’ leading to children being shot at and expressed solidarity with the ‘ victims of terror . ’ |
| 9 | Voysey stood for a drastic and stylized return to English country tradition and , along with Charles Rennie Mackintosh , relied on simplicity of composition for greatest effect . |
| 10 | He stood for a moment laughing at her as she cast furiously for the vanished rabbit , and walked on , to catch her up , along the raised embankment . |
| 11 | Mark stood for a few moments at the corner of Parliament Street and Bridge Street . |
| 12 | I had an old air-raid shelter , partly dug into the ground because of the slope : there was a load of stones on top , waiting to turn the shelter into an apple store disguised as a rockery , and when Mrs Wilson saw this she stood for a long time looking at the hump in the ground and the pile of stones . |
| 13 | He stood for a few moments thinking , and looking apprehensively from one stallion to the other . |
| 14 | Surprisingly , it did not feel too cold and Endill stood for a moment trying to see the end of it but it disappeared into darkness . |
| 15 | They stood for a few moments in shy silence , staring from one to another . |
| 16 | She stood for a few moments catching her breath , then continued through to the kitchen . |
| 17 | Giving himself dialogue seemed to calm him and he stood for a moment , arms idle at his side , breathing slowly and heavily . |
| 18 | On the doorstep of number 54 , Henry stood for a moment in the gloom , flexing his fingers . |
| 19 | In the garden of Burleigh Court , situated near the present Ulster Bank , there stood for a long time an old pear tree known as ‘ King William 's pear tree ’ . |
| 20 | I stood for a long time in a telephone box just to keep out of the slicing rain . |
| 21 | Breeze stood for a moment , listening to its savage , eternal music , watching the grey-green water swirling round the half-submerged rocks . |
| 22 | I stood for a long while looking at Voting Right . |
| 23 | Delaney stood for a second looking after it . |
| 24 | Edouard stood for a while , alone in the gardens . |
| 25 | It dominated the room so that he and Alice Mair stood for a moment , silently regarding it . |
| 26 | Before leaving he stood for a moment at the door and let his eyes range round the room as if he were seeing it for the first time . |
| 27 | They stood for a moment regarding it , then Meg Dennison said : ‘ When I first came here from London it almost frightened me , the sheer size of it , the way it dominates the headland . |
| 28 | Dalgliesh waited until Meg had unlocked the front door and stepped inside before saying his final goodnight , and she stood for a moment watching his tall figure striding down the gravel path and into the darkness . |
| 29 | Here they stood for a moment , looking round . |
| 30 | With increases in rates paid by the tenant , the people were ‘ awakening to the fact that the Alliance stood for a saner and wiser administration of public affairs ’ . |