Example sentences of "[vb past] stand [adv] and [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He tried to stand up and fell back with a little snort of pain . |
| 2 | ‘ Teeny ! ’ he shouted standing up and knocking his packet of cigarettes and lighter on the floor . |
| 3 | He put different shapes and sizes of enclosure inside the larger pen , and found the expected mothers readily went into an enclosed but generously bedded area , slightly larger than the space needed to stand up and lie down . |
| 4 | At every gig we went to , there was a woman there — that 's what we wanted , we liked to see women hanging around the star attraction of the group because he was good-looking and he did stand out and look good on stage . |
| 5 | Unfortunately , Mrs Tuckett spotted me and I saw recognition click into place in her mind before I had to stand up and do my bit . |
| 6 | Each recruit had to stand up and sing a song in his own language . |
| 7 | Was it a game where you had numbers and you had to stand up and say your number ? |
| 8 | And , do not forget , only a few months earlier , in a restaurant filled with sophisticated diners , the same Balestre had stood up and bared his torso to show the scars of an ancient surgical operation . |
| 9 | Before she knew it Rosa had stood up and deposited the soft warm bundle in Ruth 's arms . |
| 10 | Before leaving school we had knelt on the floor in a row to make sure our hem lines touched the ground , just grazed it , and then we had stood up and had our knickers checked . |
| 11 | It was unbelievable — not only that he had done it but that she had stood there and let him . |
| 12 | It was ultimately Craig 's responsibility and yet he had stood back and allowed himself to be duped and Emily 's father to be ruined . |
| 13 | Maybe fish had developed muscular fins and crawled on to land to become amphibians ; maybe amphibians in their turn had developed water-tight skins and become reptiles ; maybe , even , some ape-like creatures had stood upright and become the ancestors of man . |
| 14 | I 'm a Paddy , she wanted to stand up and say . |
| 15 | He expected William Temple to back Henson and was grieved to find that his hero was weak because he refused to stand up and fight . |