Example sentences of "stand [adv prt] 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | and stand up on the pedals as I passed |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | stand back on the stool by daddy . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | People who 've seen it say it makes the hair stand up on the back of their necks . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The house screws would stand out on the avenue to make sure that you did n't stop and talk . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ Do n't stand about on the doorstep , ’ he said . |
| 16 | Away to the south-west , on the far bank of the river , standing up on the desert bluffs , we could see the Pyramids of Giza , shimmering through the haze above the city . |
| 17 | So I was racing through South London on my bike , nearly getting crushed several times by lorries , head bent over the dropped handlebars , swiftly running through the ten Campagnola gears , nipping through traffic , sometimes mounting the pavement , up one-way streets , breaking suddenly , accelerating by standing up on the pedals , exhilarated by thought and motion . |
| 18 | I knew that during those brief immortal moments when I was standing up on the board , walking on water , I too felt like a supreme being , until the ocean cast me down again and turned me once more into a creeping thing that creepeth upon the face of the earth . |
| 19 | This basilica was replaced during the Renaissance by that now standing up on the site ( Volume 2 ) . |
| 20 | There was a brawl of props and hookers , second rowers and locks ( back rows , I think you call them ) from which my father extricated himself , standing back on the sideline wearing that universal five-eighth 's look of perky innocence . |
| 21 | He pushed open the arched wooden door of his house and went in , leaving Ruth standing out on the terrace . |
| 22 | At first he treated Lennie as a joke , ordering him around ; as he says , ‘ … a bunch of guys was standing around on the Sacramento River . |
| 23 | Little clusters of guests were standing about on the cobblestones between the houses , looking at a loss . |
| 24 | David Damiani set off from here with his family in April 1948 , and it was not difficult to see how clearly the old factory and the church above the city must have stood out on the horizon as the Argentina slipped past the tide bar and steamed for Beirut . |
| 25 | Angus Cameron stood up on the oak stump which Donald used as a chopping-block , held out his hand to each part of the crowd as though drawing them into the circuit of the ceremony , and said , at first quietly , then gaining volume as he felt the truth of his words : ‘ Alexander McLaggan , Mary Stewart — you love each other , and must wed each other , and that is right and good . |
| 26 | The little man stood up on the foot rests , throttling back . |
| 27 | Annie stood up on the table . |
| 28 | The forty or so girls , dressed in mufti to mark their status as sixth-formers , stood up on the arrival of the speaker and his escort . |
| 29 | If I stood up on the walkway , I thought , I could probably stretch up and touch the ceiling , but would n't be able to reach the hole . |
| 30 | Sweat stood out on the flagellant 's brow now . |