Example sentences of "[pron] stood for [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I stood for a long while looking at Voting Right .
2 I stood for a long time in a telephone box just to keep out of the slicing rain .
3 I stood for a long time , staring at the mirror .
4 But our to avoid that situation I left and went to work with which kept me in the Edinburgh branch and within three or four weeks I stood for the local organizer and had not been successful .
5 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 .
6 There she stood for a long time , gazing out to sea , her heart full of sadness and her eyes full of tears .
7 When he had gone , she stood for a long time in front of the looking-glass that hung over the fire , her hands pressed to her cheeks , her face quite alive with excitement .
8 She stood for a long time , trying to make sense of her feelings , the words he had said tumbling around in her brain .
9 I began to wonder what was happening when we stood for a long time at Birmingham New Street .
10 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 ’ .
11 There they stood for a long time by a low stone wall , staring hopelessly out at the yellow fields of stubble , where the wheatsheaves were stooked and ready for gathering into the barn .
12 They stood for a long time in silence , and the others left them alone .
13 Thus when Clarkson spoke movingly to the gathered World Convention of 1840 he was intended to symbolise continuity and provide in what he stood for a unifying focus .
14 Creed had requisitioned an open car , and he stood for the entire procession , as a mark of his own personal respect for the deceased .
15 In 1964 he stood for the pretty safe ( at the time ) Conservative seat of Glasgow Pollok .
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