Example sentences of "stand [adv] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her poetry is addressed immediately to her friends ; the reading public , the anonymous book buyer , stands somewhere outside that circle , but within earshot . |
| 2 | I appeal to everybody in the Annadale flats to stand together against these thugs there can be no justification for this murder . ’ |
| 3 | Tommy 's record as a manager stands up to any scrutiny ; two championships , three Bass Cups , ten other trophies and regular jaunts to Europe . |
| 4 | I will be true despite thy scythe and thee ’ ) , in Sonnet 116 the Friend seems to have receded into the background while the poet stands up for all men ; Although the poet 's love is included in the affirmation , I would agree with Ingram and Redpath in seeing the poem rather as ‘ a meditative attempt to define perfect love ’ . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's hard to stand up for that length of time , ’ said Couples , who had two double-bogeys in his 71 . |
| 6 | She had no doubt that Dana would be with Garry and her twin was n't made to stand up to that kind of trouble . |
| 7 | No one has yet been able to stand up to that complex and refuse to give it the money . |
| 8 | So if , if you are a poor peasant you are thinking hold on the Party expects me to stand up to this landlord and accuse him of this this and this , actually point a finger at him when there is a chance that , you know , the Kuomintang is , is twenty miles away and they , I know they 've come into other villages as they come back , m of land to peasants.s in the form of land |
| 9 | But Joseph was now resigned to moving to the reservation , saying : ‘ It required a strong heart to stand up against such talk , but I urged my people to be quiet , and not to begin a war . ’ |
| 10 | During the last few years , we have begun to learn something of these mothers ' true feelings from the women who suffered the regime at first hand : what stands out in such accounts is the emotion which is still generated in the mother by her own memories . |
| 11 | The car 's fifteen years old , it stands out in all weathers , and the undercoat 's still intact . ’ |
| 12 | Prominence is the related psychological notion : Halliday defines it simply as " the general name for the phenomenon of linguistic highlighting , whereby some linguistic feature stands out in some way " . " |
| 13 | She almost has a three D effect , I er , you know her face really stands out from that background . |
| 14 | Maybe it was because they thought it was dangerous to stand out in any way from the crowd , in case fate was tempted to drop a crate on their heads . |
| 15 | If it 's somebody who we really expect to stand then by all means then chase them up . |
| 16 | The train was electrically lighted , and in order to economise current when the train had to stand by for some time , nearly every lamp was under separate control . |
| 17 | Edward continued to stand there for another minute or two . |
| 18 | My father had proceeded to stand there for some moments , saying nothing , merely holding open the door . |
| 19 | But at least I was not trying to stand completely outside this life with my little notebook . |
| 20 | We stand together under that sign of evil and pain . ’ |
| 21 | stand in for any Committee member , if you |
| 22 | Obvious care was taken to make these small black and white photographs stand up to such scrutiny as they were immaculately printed on fibre-based paper and mounted on expensive conservation board , also protecting the investment of the potential buyer . |
| 23 | I move them and instead of having a good scuttle across the floor , I stand up on these legs in quite the wrong attitude . |
| 24 | How , they argue , would Alice , or The Wind in the Willows , stand up against such scrutiny ? |
| 25 | The reader 's relationship to Proust 's text switches from the closeness , produced by paraphrase and quotation , of listening to the text speaking for itself , to a more removed perspective from which de Man and his reader stand back from that text and speculate on a general rule about language . |
| 26 | Before I stand back from this chapter , a summary . |
| 27 | As we can see rather graphically here , the difference in if you stand back against that wall if you would very kindly , erm you see here the difference in level between nineteen ninety |
| 28 | Evidently , one tends to forget the worst episodes over time , and remembers only those items that stand out for some reason ’ . |
| 29 | I am sure illnesses stand out in all childhood memories . |
| 30 | Two tracks , ‘ Crucified ’ , with its robust go-go beat , and ‘ Late Great Black Man ’ , with its slinky-funk groove stand out in this respect . |