Example sentences of "he stood [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tracing his political lineage to the New Deal and Great Society , he stood for higher spending on domestic programmes . |
| 2 | He stood for damaged Danu ; he got your sympathy . |
| 3 | He stood to one side of the bay window and watched beyond the net curtains . |
| 4 | Mr Kinnock looked uncomfortable when Alec Dunn , a 20-year-old first-time voter , asked where he stood on proportional representation . |
| 5 | His steel-grey hair was neatly combed , and he stood with great pride acknowledging the cheers of the onlookers . |
| 6 | Half a tree trunk surrounded with logs crackled and flamed , warming his backside as he stood with one hand lifting the flap of his jacket . |
| 7 | Or rather ’ — he stood with one hand in his blazer pocket , squinting only a little — ‘ the guest of Mr Kettering . ’ |
| 8 | The teacher queried one boy 's answer , he stood in rapt recalculation , you could almost hear his brain working . |
| 9 | They kept slipping away , as her father had already slipped away , with no more than a mumbled excuse , to jot down a line of verse that had presented itself while he stood in some abstraction . |
| 10 | Another suspect , Mohammed Salameh , shouted ‘ I am not guilty ! ’ as he stood before federal Magistrate Judge Michael Dolinger . |