Example sentences of "[prep] stand [adv] and [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can hardly see your hand in front of your face and er I mean there was no way to fight the fire , so I mean all we could do was sort of stand back and look 'cos we were up There was about At that stage there was twenty or thirty of us standing in this north west corner of the platform . |
| 2 | Dog sort of stood there and looked at you know , he did n't know where to put himself , let him , eventually he , he 's sort of , you can see it on his face did that , fucking thing keep away from me . |
| 3 | Er and the management equally sort of stood back and said , well if that 's your attitude , er you can do what you like . |
| 4 | It 's a pity you do n't feel like standing up and racing cos it 's lovely . |
| 5 | The most consistently bearish — well he is a Brit — Stephen Smith of PaineWebber , says that until recently , saying you did n't like IBM was ‘ like standing up and saying I do n't like apple pie . ’ |
| 6 | Trolley safe from the Heinz Baby Club 's Safety Catalogue is a two-inch wide polyester webbing belt , which is fully adjustable and will restrain babies and children , preventing them from standing up and falling out of a trolley , or tipping it over completely . |
| 7 | Apart from standing up and sitting down there 's nothing at all to do . ’ |
| 8 | There is a lot to be learnt from standing back and observing the way a child plays with shape and form , but it may be that the child will want to talk about it afterwards , or ask for help to find particular shape materials as he works . |
| 9 | He turned his head lazily and smiled before standing up and explaining that as it was Good Friday his mother had gone to church with some old friends and was likely to have dinner with them as well . |
| 10 | She quickly dropped one into each saucer before standing back and looking at Beth with a forlorn expression . |
| 11 | This is where we have erm er as opposed to standing here and delivering erm an otherwise . |
| 12 | For he has realized something else , in the moment of inspiration between standing up and beginning to speak : that the aesthetic effect of honesty depends upon restraint in its application . |
| 13 | She tried to get out of it by standing up and stretching as if the conversation was threatening to bore her stiff . |
| 14 | I was always a sensitive child , but he beat it out of me , taught me that the only way to make your way in life is by standing up and fighting for what you want . |