Example sentences of "[noun sg] stand [adv prt] for [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 THE airpass holder who whinged to the Dallas check-in clerk that she had spent all day standing by for a flight out of one of America 's less attractive airports was gently chastised .
2 His art emerges as the product of the extreme poverty of his early years when sex was cheaper than food and where the circus stood in for the corrida .
3 When this goon is at the point of his beat furthest away from our stretch of wire , the Wing Commander will give the signal to Clinker here — ’ a dark beetle-like man stood up for a moment and sat down again , ‘ — who will fuse the entire lighting system of the camp including the searchlights . ’
4 The blue stood off for a moment , and the judge called another handle .
5 Again , there were difficulties with Equity when I was selected and the whole thing had to go to arbitration because the company stood out for the casting it wanted .
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