Example sentences of "[prep] stand [adv prt] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The oral frame has the appearance of standing out from the disk . |
| 2 | Greta Scacchi , 31 , star of White Mischief and Heat and Dust says , ‘ I hate the thought of standing out in the crowd . |
| 3 | Bertrand Russell , who took over the chairmanship of the NCF when Allen was jailed , later remarked : ‘ In some men the habit of standing out against the herd had become so ingrained that they could not co-operate with anybody about anything . ’ |
| 4 | Vigilant was also called upon to stand by in the Thames approaches to assist as necessary . |
| 5 | The lyric is not generically debarred from standing out against the state , or from taking a generous interest in what goes on in the world . |
| 6 | It involves one of the few regulators that have shown some teeth in standing up to the powers that have been conferred by the Government on privatised British Gas . |
| 7 | It was very successful , both in appearance and in standing up to the wear small children give their clothes . |
| 8 | A leading liberal , Mr Martin Lee , whose United Democrats won a landslide in elections for the partially-democratic legislature in September , defined the Governor 's job differently : ‘ He must be committed to democratising Hong Kong and to standing up for the territory 's interests , especially in the case of conflict with Britain and China . |
| 9 | By the end of the campaign , his average image score had risen to 65 but his score on standing up to the USSR had dropped to 56 . |
| 10 | So I was racing through South London on my bike , nearly getting crushed several times by lorries , head bent over the dropped handlebars , swiftly running through the ten Campagnola gears , nipping through traffic , sometimes mounting the pavement , up one-way streets , breaking suddenly , accelerating by standing up on the pedals , exhilarated by thought and motion . |