Example sentences of "[noun sg] stood for a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Lad stood for a moment , his hands caressing the formless thing . |
| 2 | Breeze stood for a moment , listening to its savage , eternal music , watching the grey-green water swirling round the half-submerged rocks . |
| 3 | The young man stood for a moment on an overhanging ledge of the bank , looking down at the water ; the dog swam round and round below ; the man 's body was flecked all over with light and the shadow patterns of leaves , so that he seemed some human extension of the place . |
| 4 | The Polish Parliament stood for a minute 's silence after approving unanimously a resolution which accused the Romanian authorities of ‘ exceptional brutality ’ leading to children being shot at and expressed solidarity with the ‘ victims of terror . ’ |
| 5 | Mr Wolfgang Berghofer , the 46-year-old mayor of Dresden who had been tipped to become the new party chief , said yesterday that he and a renewed party stood for a break with Stalinism and instead wanted socialism with a human face . |