Example sentences of "stand [adv] on the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The industrialist MP Samuel Morley and others persuaded him to stand down on the grounds that ministers should not directly enter the political arena and Morley paid all his expenses when he gave up the contest . |
| 2 | , stands mischievously on the terrace walk , which looks over Ickworth park . |
| 3 | To stand together on the Piazzetta in the early morning and look across the shimmering water to San Giorgio Maggiore . |
| 4 | Even now if I look at a video the hair still stands up on the back of the neck , and you get that tingle on the spine . |
| 5 | HP 's software effort for the new servers included endorsement from a veritable who's-who of mainframe software houses , all eager to stand up on the platform and say that their customers were queueing up to leave the IBM mainframe world behind . |
| 6 | This 18th century mansion stands magnificently on the cliffs overlooking the Bay of Naples . |
| 7 | The church tower stands out on the skyline in the middle of the village and the church dates from the 14th century , though extensively restored and to some extent rebuilt in Victorian times . |
| 8 | " Heinrich has to stand here on the deck while you drone on , said Tilda . |
| 9 | Measuring over 200 feet from head to toe it stands proudly on the south of Windover Hill , a few miles inland from Eastbourne . |
| 10 | ‘ Throughout the year people stand outside on the street and eat it . |
| 11 | and stand up on the pedals as I passed |
| 12 | St Wenceslas and St Vitus stand up on the cornice with Adalbert , the first bishop of Prague , and St Procopius , the patron saint of the Slavs . |
| 13 | stand back on the stool by daddy . |
| 14 | Stand here on the box . |
| 15 | I begin to appreciate for the first time , as I stand here on the outside looking in , how very reserved is the world in which we work . |
| 16 | She made him stand idly on the sidewalk while she made a big deal of paying the cab driver . |
| 17 | Rigid frame steerables can stand vertically on the frame ends , and be held in that attitude by line tension if the handles are pegged to the ground by a stake . |
| 18 | The stories of what it was like there in the hours that followed , and of the lingering deaths of 31 of the most exposed people , make the hair stand up on the back of your neck . |
| 19 | People who 've seen it say it makes the hair stand up on the back of their necks . ’ |
| 20 | It 's hard to resist the malevolent allure of the Third Reich , and when I telephoned Sibylle one evening a week or so later , the sound of her rich , Teutonic voice eloquently describing its owner 's activities in the Hitler Youth movement made the hairs stand up on the back of my neck . |
| 21 | Every now and then one of them would stand up on the sofa and trample restlessly round like a dog resettling itself into its sleeping place . |
| 22 | Next day , the clan met out on the shore , where Eachuinn Odhar could stand up on the rocks among his officers , Donald Crubach at his side , and speak to all together . |
| 23 | The house screws would stand out on the avenue to make sure that you did n't stop and talk . |
| 24 | It will follow that , unless they have been sunk into prepared grooves , the horizontal cords will stand out on the spine as pronounced ridges , and the leather or other covering will have to be moulded or ‘ nipped ’ over them . |
| 25 | ‘ Do n't stand about on the doorstep , ’ he said . |
| 26 | But her sudden command made him stand violently on the pedal and they were both jerked forward against their seat-belts . |
| 27 | Luke was standing outside on the balcony , and once again she found herself looking at his back . |
| 28 | Patrick O'Sullivan , standing easily on the steps of Loxford Old Rectory , had looked to Peter a man on first-name terms with clout . |
| 29 | By a miracle I found I could do it : standing upright on the pedals and pedalling with all my might I reached the road , where Nora was waiting for me . |
| 30 | The form is a basin supported on three stout legs and with two big ring-handles standing upright on the rim , these often supported by human figures and crowned by a horse . |