Example sentences of "stood him [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They stood him on his feet and punched him mercilessly until he fell to the ground . |
| 2 | He carried him over to the great oak chair and stood him on it . |
| 3 | ‘ There you go , ’ he said , and stood him on the floor . |
| 4 | That would be about sixty , sixty one as I see , and er they were the last match of the season virtually was that they gained promotion on was Shrewsbury , which was at the game meadow and Arthur , the player manager who was a prolific goal scorer in his day , was playing at the time and er nobody expected Walsall to win but they ran out two-one winners and all down the A five that night all the pubs were full coming back with everyone celebrating , so erm , after then they had a civic dinner at the Town Hall for the players and they did a big flower display in the arboretum all set out in flowers the club badge and congratulation lads on winning promotion , and this when they kicked off the following season , in the second division , prior to that they played a friendly match against Leicester and Gordon was in goal and I took my boy with me Tim , who was only a toddler at the time , and he , I stood him on the old archway where the players used to run out , but the first league match was against Sunderland and Brian , actually played for Sunderland as centre forward and er Walsall ran out four-three winners in the end Tony , who was Walsall inside left got a hat trick and I believe Tommy , got the other goal and Brian scored for Sunderland , then the er we went on to the , the first away match which was at Derby County , and Walsall won that three-one . |
| 5 | Now he was hopelessly confused and lost , and the fear he had extended himself to contain shook him from head to foot as they unstrapped him and stood him on his feet again . |
| 6 | Despite his lack of political experience , Clouthier 's 20-year leadership of business organisations stood him in good stead . |
| 7 | Sartorial details aside , such efforts stood him in good stead with Disney . |
| 8 | The grounding Mr Morrison received at James Dowling 's feet stood him in good stead . |
| 9 | His previous experience stood him in good stead . |
| 10 | Beattie 's outstanding record as a dedicated social worker stood him in good stead at the ‘ Diplock ’ tribunal and partly explained the presence of a total of twenty-four persons who came to testify on his behalf . |
| 11 | Lanfranc , who had a practical mind , had foreseen this need when he was still prior of Bec , and had put together a collection of Canon Law , which stood him in good stead as archbishop . |
| 12 | The first study in recent years of this important Boston painter and teacher whose Paris training stood him in good stead in introducing into America a fascinating mixture of French Academicism , Barbizon and early Impressionism . |
| 13 | James had armed himself with the sword of Robert the Bruce , but it stood him in poor stead . |
| 14 | Minton , perceiving Cornish 's shyness , made him answer most of the questions and listened attentively to his replies , thereby forcing Cornish through the shyness barrier , an experience he ever afterwards felt stood him in good stead . |
| 15 | His early training as an engineer stood him in good stead , and he not only devised but also constructed most of the apparatus that he used . |
| 16 | None the less , his fall from favour and loss of revenue farms and offices under the restored Commonwealth of 1659 may have been what stood him in best stead in the following year , rather than secret payments to the Royalist cause before May 1660 , for which there is no evidence beyond inference . |
| 17 | During this period of voluntary ostracism from social contact with those around him , Mr Thesiger 's fondness for out-of-doors sports and predilection for the simple life stood him in good stead . |
| 18 | The experience in Gentle Jack and the speech that caused all the problems in that play stood him in good stead . |
| 19 | LOW cloud caused problems for some of the runners in the 11.5-mile Carneddau mountain race but Kevin Hagley 's navigational skills stood him in good stead . |
| 20 | And this stood him in good stead when he moved to the Darlington area . |
| 21 | experience of project managing the construction of a new store stood him in good stead for creating a corner of Cornwall in Stamford Street in just two days . |