Example sentences of "stand [adv prt] [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it is worth pointing out that of the 40 seats where we called upon ‘ no-hope ’ third-party candidates to stand down to maximise the chances of defeating the Tory incumbents , just seven were captured by the opposition parties . |
| 2 | His decision to stand down throws the contest open . |
| 3 | I have said before — and I say again — that unless the organisations and individuals concerned are prepared to stand up to resist the aggression of developers , we will lose many , many more aerodromes . |
| 4 | She dabs a little powder on top , and stands back to admire the effect . |
| 5 | Raise the toes of the back leg and — without the toes touching back on the floor — stand up using the thigh strength of the front leg . |
| 6 | Every hour the assistant on duty had to read the instruments , make a note of the wind speed and direction , the visibility , the cloud , precipitation ( if any ) , and whether the barometer was rising or falling , and then stand by to teletype the details in code to Group Headquarters , who in turn would transmit it to Bomber Command . |
| 7 | If it is , he should hold the present attitude and stand by to lower the nose if the speed drops any further . |
| 8 | Ian , if you and Julia stand by to raise the bridge , I think we 'll do very nicely . |
| 9 | We had hoped to be married in the middle of December , but in the first week of that month , Leslie wrote : ‘ Can you stand by to shift the date to , say , 22nd December ? |
| 10 | He compounded this appalling error of judgement by standing up to applaud the winners , a misguided attempt at gallantry which resulted in me trying to run out of the stadium and refusing to talk to him all the way home . |
| 11 | They drink pints , work longer hours than any man on the team and practically pee standing up to convince the chaps they 're ‘ one of them ’ . |
| 12 | STEVE ASHTON COVERED THE COURSE AT THIS OWN PACE BEFORE STANDING BACK TO WATCH THE RACE |
| 13 | He was standing back to admire the conflagration when the full weight of its rightful resident landed on him from a bough above , where it had been watching . |
| 14 | That 's perhaps not a luxury that you can enjoy immediately after London — although the thought of a couple of thousand masseuses standing by to greet the hordes as they cross Westminster Bridge is a novel one ! |
| 15 | The anchor-handling vessel Monica Viking was standing by to tow the accommodation barge to Norway , where anchor replacements are to be fitted . |
| 16 | Colonel Moore , moved and perturbed , would have stood up to encounter the man squarely on but the pressure of Hope 's grip kept him down in his seat . |
| 17 | The ballroom looked beautiful but when Sir Basil Feldman stood up to give the opening address at the Conservative Conference , though his projection was fine and his microphone working , half his audience had difficulty hearing , and a third were hearing twice . |
| 18 | The first time I stood up to cross-examine the CEGB 's opening witness , Derek Davis — the man who had said in 1952 that there was ‘ no strong local opposition ’ to Hinkley C — I felt as though I was floundering in a mess of unthought-out quibbles . |
| 19 | He was nominated in January 1649 to the high court of justice for the trial of Charles I ; he did not attend the early stages of the court , but in the trial week he attended busily , and was in the group of commissioners who stood up to pass the sentence of death on Saturday 27 January . |
| 20 | Mother stood back to see the effect of the gift . |
| 21 | When he was satisfied that all was clear , he stood back to let the waiter push the trolley into the room . |
| 22 | Pulling the heavy bolt of the door , he stood back to allow the weight of the grain to open it , then , working with frantic haste , swung it wider , and , grabbing one of the shovels , began to dig . |
| 23 | Yanto parked the bike in the small alley which separated his Mother 's cottage from the Post Office and stood back to admire the machine again . |
| 24 | One of the assistants took Ruth into a fitting-room and helped her into the dress , then stood back to admire the effect . |
| 25 | The yellowish lamp gave the illusion of sunlight flooding the canvas and she stood back to admire the effect . |
| 26 | She buckled a stiff hard belt around Alexandra 's waist and stood back to admire the effect . |
| 27 | The experienced players stood around watching the youngsters do all the work . ’ |
| 28 | A van stood by to take the bottles up to the municipal bottle bank , another for the cans and a red plastic hippopotamus with its mouth wide open waited to receive the litter . |
| 29 | ‘ Poor soul , ’ Mary Donovan said , as they stood round drinking the mid-morning cup of tea . |