Example sentences of "stand [adv prt] [prep] his [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reynolds was a notable conversationalist , well able to stand up to his friends , who included Samuel Johnson and Edmund Burke . |
| 2 | Many a teenager has been drawn into behaviour he would rather have avoided simply because he finds himself unable to stand up to his peers or to be the one who is ‘ different ’ . |
| 3 | His only concern at that time was whether his marriage was going to be able to stand up to his time in jail . |
| 4 | His eyes are popping and sweat stands out on his skin . |
| 5 | Sweat stands out on his cheekbones . |
| 6 | The Prince of Wales will stand in for his grandmother at a church service and reception for the Victoria Cross and George Cross Association in London . |
| 7 | Does this suggest that Mr Patten should stand up to his critics ? |
| 8 | Although so alike physically , she felt sure that Jonna would not stand up to his father 's rage , as George would have done . |
| 9 | Matthew , standing in for his friend , had promised to give him a full and complete report . |
| 10 | perpetual insults that every decent labour man has endured through standing up for his country in the hour of her crisis from men who have foisted themselves on the Labour movement by wirepulling tactics . |
| 11 | Therefore , we could spotlight that here was a writer standing up for his rights . ’ |
| 12 | A COWBOY who spent the last six years of his life in a wheelchair got his dying wish , to be buried standing up with his boots on . |
| 13 | ‘ This is the Skriaig , ’ said Murtach , standing up in his stirrups and staring west across the summits of the lesser hills . |
| 14 | Sinatra was having a field day , standing up in his car and bellowing ‘ Mayday ! |
| 15 | It was fine and coppery , standing up around his head like the burning bush , or a single over-arching eyebrow raised in perpetual surprise . |
| 16 | Myles stared in wonder at the beads of sweat standing out on his forehead . |
| 17 | His mind was racing now , beads of sweat standing out on his forehead , as he desperately tried to think of some way of alerting the pump attendant to his predicament without endangering them both . |
| 18 | The veins standing out on his neck , he shouted at the top of his voice : ‘ We 're going to crucify this stuff . |
| 19 | He 's even standing by with his spade right now . |
| 20 | Steve White may be in from the start ; with Moncur and Ling both injured by teenager , Austin Berkley is standing by for his debut too . |
| 21 | John Bate stood in for his father during his frequent absences — he suffered from chronic bronchitis — giving evidence to several parliamentary commissions on weights and measures before his own early death of consumption in 1840 . |
| 22 | He stood up on his chair all the way through lunch , with the gravy running down his great red face on to his bib and flying off the spoon he was waving on to other people 's clothes ; and in his loud , pharyngitic voice he kept up a perpetual background noise of questions and comments . |
| 23 | Biddy brought some tapes of circus-sounding music and Uncle Bean played them in his car , and Spot stood up on his hindlegs and Jazz fell off more heavily than ever he had at a jump . |
| 24 | As Nicholson went on , telling him how King Morken died and his children swore to kill Kentigern who came south to Carlisle and then — learning of the paganism of the fell people — into the heartland of the lakes where he founded many churches , established missions , stood up to his neck in Derwent Water to read the Psalms and then went down into Wales … |
| 25 | But unlike the young hero in Tom Brown 's Schooldays who stood up to his tormentor Flashman , Charles went straight to the headmaster . |
| 26 | The German observer stood up in his cockpit to ward off the attacker , but in a matter of seconds both he and his pilot were dead , their plane spinning groundwards . |
| 27 | He pulled Contralto to the side and stood up in his stirrups to gouge a handful of fungus from the bark . |
| 28 | He saw me coming and stood up in his boat . |
| 29 | He slid his arms into the sleeves and wriggled his shoulders until the stiffened collar stood up around his ears . |
| 30 | The headmaster stood up behind his desk . |