Example sentences of "stand [adv] [prep] [noun pl] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not surprising then that the earliest women to enter politics did so as ‘ surrogate ’ males , to stand in for husbands or fathers ( see the case of Nancy , Lady Astor ) or that no ‘ monstrous regiment ’ of women was waiting to overwhelm men in the battle for parliamentary seats . |
| 2 | She drew comparisons between the present crisis concerning Iraq 's invasion of Kuwait and the experience of 1938 , declaring that " Czechoslovakia of all countries needs no reminding of the need for nations to stand up to bullies and do so at once " . |
| 3 | All of this finally resulted in ’ Maus ’ , his book-length comic strip version of the Holocaust in which pigs stand in for Nazis and mice for Jews . |
| 4 | ‘ I know it all depends on me how I stand up to games and how I play . ’ |
| 5 | They stand around with rulers and clipboards . |
| 6 | The band said they would look stupid , standing there with guitars but not actually playing . |
| 7 | An example was John Wilkins ' ‘ real character ’ of 1668 , in which symbols stood not for words but for things . |
| 8 | They watched the horses follow the tractor round the ever narrowing stand of corn in the centre of the field , and the tinkers who came to get work stood by with dogs and shot the rabbits that came surging out . |
| 9 | Harriet stood there in breeches and waxed jacket , holding a rope halter and a plastic bucket . |
| 10 | stood round in groups or knelt on half-bald knees |