Example sentences of "stand [adv] the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Craig Brown , the under-21 team manager , has lost three of his current squad — Ferguson , Booth and Wright — to the full squad and has decided to stand down the rest of his Premier Division-based players at a time when league commitments in England have deprived him of Anglos . |
| 2 | But against the poverty of God 's hope stands again the faith of Moses . |
| 3 | Once again many of us were conscious of the opportunities rather than the obstacles which stand along the path of Church Unity . |
| 4 | The children stand around the leader in a semi-circle and are numbered off until the last two become Jack and then King or Queen . |
| 5 | There were stories about the echo on those records being created by someone standing down the end of the corridor and playing . |
| 6 | They 've got all this digital equipment and yet they 're standing down the end of a corridor … |
| 7 | If there was any criticism of the engine , it was that the aluminium alloys used gave the impression of not standing up the rigours of 40 years under the ground quite so well . |
| 8 | ‘ As he stood there the sky over the house screamed . |