Example sentences of "stand [adv] for a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At first he was asked to stand literally for a couple of seconds before being praised and asked to walk on . |
| 2 | We are able to stand down for a while in the evening to get some sleep , write letters , play darts or watch TV . |
| 3 | It started when a man working in the sorting office was suspended for refusing to stand in for a colleague who 'd gone sick . |
| 4 | Did you want to stand up for a minute ? |
| 5 | You 're obviously more cautious than you were before , and erm a lot of kids now they tend to stand back for a while just in case 'cause you can never judge how fast they 're really going to go through there . |
| 6 | He also points out that the expedition led by himself and Clark had assembled ‘ the best people , worldwide , and the top people ca n't afford to stand around for a couple of years waiting for research to happen ’ . |
| 7 | He also points out that the expedition led by himself and Clark had assembled ‘ the best people , worldwide , and the top people ca n't afford to stand around for a couple of years waiting for research to happen ’ . |
| 8 | Sometimes they stand in for a deity , haunting the sacred places and occupying a position midway between gods and men . |
| 9 | Well stand up for a start ! |
| 10 | ‘ Now just stand here for a minute and listen . ’ |
| 11 | He pulled me to a halt and said , ‘ Willie , stand here for a minute . |
| 12 | Just stand here for a minute and eat your ice cream . |
| 13 | We stand there for a second or two . |
| 14 | I stand there for a second , before stepping back . |
| 15 | But the book 's publishers should be warned : if searches for extraterrestrial intelligence ever pay off , then stand by for an avalanche of orders from interested parties . |
| 16 | John Thorn , who makes red boxes for ministers , is standing by for a rash of orders . |
| 17 | THE airpass holder who whinged to the Dallas check-in clerk that she had spent all day standing by for a flight out of one of America 's less attractive airports was gently chastised . |
| 18 | You 're stood up for a number of offenses , the first of which is that on the twenty first of June nineteen eighty eight you , on the public road way in Accrington Road Worley used the mechanics of the vehicle when there was an excise licence in force , it 's an offence of the vehicles excise act in nineteen seventy one . |
| 19 | said I 've got a guy that 's been stood here for an hour , do n't know what to do with him . . |
| 20 | I must have stood there for a couple of hours , getting more and more fed up as my imagination worked overtime . |
| 21 | They stood together for a moment in the doorway , linking arms proudly . |
| 22 | Once outside , she stood uncertainly for a moment , oblivious to the curious glances of passers-by . |
| 23 | The blue stood off for a moment , and the judge called another handle . |
| 24 | I stood up for a gasp of air , ducked down again , searching with fingers , with feet , with urgency turning to appalling alarm . |
| 25 | When this goon is at the point of his beat furthest away from our stretch of wire , the Wing Commander will give the signal to Clinker here — ’ a dark beetle-like man stood up for a moment and sat down again , ‘ — who will fuse the entire lighting system of the camp including the searchlights . ’ |
| 26 | Fernie stood irresolutely for a moment . |
| 27 | They stood then for a moment in mutual silence and surprise , rather as Sophia and Rupert had stood on Ianthe 's doorstep , or like two strange cats meeting each other for the first time . |
| 28 | I stood there for a while in the damp grey afternoon and whispered : ‘ Godspeed . ’ |
| 29 | Adam closed the front door and stood there for a moment as if he could not wrench himself away . |
| 30 | He stood there for a moment and then said , in a gentler voice , " I did n't mean that the way it sounded … " |