Example sentences of "stand [adv prt] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Glen Ball , the Neath coach and team manager , is to stand down at the end of the season . |
| 2 | But then I 've got ta meet Emma and she stands up at the top . |
| 3 | It was better to stand out at the beginning than to go in with the expectation that he would soon have to provoke a further crisis by resignation . |
| 4 | I 've known loads of people who who are working full time , and they come home Friday and the go out Friday night , stand up at the bar , and drink twenty pints or whatever , ten pints . |
| 5 | Sometimes in the Cauldhame Arms I stand up at the urinal , but most if it ends up running down my hands or legs . |
| 6 | Oh oh my hair 's standing up at the back of my neck . |
| 7 | The more he thought of the two carpet-baggers standing up at the podium , the more intense the pains in his head became . |
| 8 | I spent the morning sitting on the floor and the afternoon standing up at the shelf . |
| 9 | ‘ Now that it 's over , you 'd expect they 'd start getting things right at last , would n't you ? ’ said Mrs Parvis , standing up at the end of the table to ladle out to her assembled household . |
| 10 | because if he put the bath right in there , I would be standing up at the end of the bath |
| 11 | Standing around at the finish , I remembered all of them . |
| 12 | ‘ She 's been like that most of the afternoon , ’ Sister Duggan , who was standing by at the foot of the bed , told him . |
| 13 | They had met a few days after Mina had stood up at the end of a recital in the Usher Hall at Edinburgh to announce that she would very much like to stay here in England ( a tiny mistake the Scots reporters had kindly ignored ) rather than return to East Germany . |
| 14 | The previous incumbent , Alain Poher , stood down at the election at the age of 83 , after 24 years in office [ see p. 22950 for his election ] , but remained a Senator . |
| 15 | It was n't until Ronni stood up at the shore 's edge that she saw Guido standing watching her , bare feet planted in the sand . |
| 16 | Vincent stood up at the back of the room and walked modestly along the wall to the platform . |
| 17 | up there and all of a sudden he saw it and he came in the room , Tony and he went he looked up at it and the stood up at the back of his neck and he was going grurgh ever so quietly under his breath grurgh . |