Example sentences of "[pers pn] stand [adv] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I know it all depends on me how I stand up to games and how I play . ’ |
| 2 | I stood up with knees that felt like buckling and tried to open the door into the dock ; and it was as immovable from outside as from in . |
| 3 | A sedentary existence or a job that keeps you standing around for hours is liable to encourage a poor circulation as well as allowing the buttock and thigh muscles to become weak and flabby , making cellulite much worse . |
| 4 | She stood there for hours watching the stonemason so that when he returned the next day , he gave her a piece of stone and two chisels . |
| 5 | She stood there with hands on her hips , glaring with a face like thunder . |
| 6 | We stand up like enthusiasts |
| 7 | Tumbleweed had vanished leaving a bundle of pondweed under his chair but everybody else seemed reluctant to go and we stood about in groups while Aunt Bedelia and the ladies of the WI handed round cups of tea . |
| 8 | And , while not denying the severity of Poland 's problems , the scale of economic hardship and poverty facing Africa makes them stand out as candidates for debt relief . |
| 9 | They stand around with rulers and clipboards . |
| 10 | ‘ And they stand around in pentacles trying to raise the Devil ? ’ |
| 11 | We can imagine them standing by for orders to levy and equip soldiers from among their lords ' tenants when the king summoned his tenants-in-chief to furnish them . |
| 12 | His thick white hair was cut short and unevenly , so that in parts it stood up in clumps . |