Example sentences of "stand [adv] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Saturdays made no difference to us , for there was no school then , but on Wednesdays some of us had to stand up the whole way to Parma . |
| 2 | He retained his seat in January 1910 but declined to stand again the following December . |
| 3 | Lord Deverill was standing down the far end of the room , staring out of a window across the estate . |
| 4 | I was standing there the other night |
| 5 | I can see part of Horse Guards Parade almost see myself standing there the other afternoon , looking up at these windows , still ignorant of what I was looking at . |
| 6 | I 'm standing there the silly bloke , he stood near where the gas equipment was and I was standing there both hands clenched ready for him to start saying something ! |
| 7 | And there was a mark on his finger where his the handle of the pail was just sunk into the flesh of his fingers he was stood there the whole Winter listening to this music . |