Example sentences of "[verb] not stand for [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Committee Miss J. Brown and Mrs. V. Hawkins have decided not to stand for re-election to the committee . |
| 2 | Committee Miss J. Brown and Mrs. V. Hawkins have decided not to stand for re-election to the committee . |
| 3 | He did not stand for re-election to the Parliament of 1780 ; but he was elected for Ripon in 1787 , and became a commissioner of the Board of Trade in 1788 . |
| 4 | European leaders who had feared since Korea that America 's relentless anti-Communism would end in disaster gave Johnson little support and he did not stand for re-election in 1968 . |
| 5 | However , she did not stand for re-election in 1979 . |