Example sentences of "[pron] stand [adv] from the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Corinth on the other hand had kept its vase-painting on a small scale ; and the tradition of an early Corinthian school of painters is borne out by certain vase-paintings which stand aside from the rest : not in scale ( indeed they are often miniature work ) but in composition and colour . |
| 2 | The urge to succeed and be competitive was stronger in some of us than in others , and although the section was theoretically united there was a faction which stood apart from the rest . |
| 3 | He stands aside from the path and is warned that he tramples on sown seed . |
| 4 | There was a definite warning in his eyes now , as he stood away from the door-frame and folded his arms across his chest . |
| 5 | His account of Halifax 's great service to his country — when he stood aside from the offer of the wartime premiership , leaving it for Churchill ( then regarded as an unstable gangster by Chamberlainite Tories ) is considerably more convincing than Churchill 's own highly-coloured account . |