Example sentences of "stand [adv prt] in a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since general public speaking courses are not preparing you to give a particular speech , but to give speeches in general , the first task is simply to get you to stand up in a room full of people and ask you to speak about anything you like for three minutes . |
| 2 | You can be too geriatric to stand up in a boat … and you might quiver a bit . |
| 3 | Japanese never like to stand out in a crowd . |
| 4 | 4 The means whereby a word is made to stand out in an utterance . |
| 5 | They stand out in a city that seems , until one discovers its finer corners , architecturally roughhewn . |
| 6 | ‘ I doubt if His Grace would ever stand up in a court-room to give evidence on my behalf , but I counted on Magistrate Peck being afraid to put it to the test . ’ |
| 7 | Inspector Drew was not a man who would stand out in a crowd . |
| 8 | The rest of her clothes were durable , and , what was more important , blended in with the rest of society so that she did n't stand out in a crowd . |
| 9 | She saw Charlton Heston standing up in a jeep , dressed as a desert general , his shirt open to the waist , binoculars hanging against his hairy chest . |
| 10 | Several thousand people standing about in a series of large rooms surrounded by mirrors , so that the entire world appears to be peopled with morning suits and ladies ' hats sipping champagne . |
| 11 | ‘ His underlying motive is that he wants to change the world , not so he can manage it , but so that he can make it a different place , ’ explains Charles Handy , who picked Gould out from a handful of students at the London Business School ‘ because he stood out in a group of people as by far the most interesting , and that was because he was determined to have control over his life ’ . |
| 12 | Yanto was one of those men who stood out in a crowd . |
| 13 | The embarrassed nomes stood around in a circle . |
| 14 | They stood round in a ring long after she 'd come to rest , after her legs had stopped wagging , after her fingers had stopped tugging . |