Example sentences of "stand [adv prt] from [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | French Professor stands down from British transplant centre |
| 2 | The last American Air Force Squadron at RAF Upper Heyford stands down from active duty today . |
| 3 | Pandarus ' prose not only proves that he does n't take Troilus seriously , so turning our reaction towards a scepticism that stands off from full involvement , but in time it establishes the speaker as a matter-of-fact fixer , who is not only alien to romance but coarsens whatever he touches . |
| 4 | She almost has a three D effect , I er , you know her face really stands out from that background . |
| 5 | The reader 's relationship to Proust 's text switches from the closeness , produced by paraphrase and quotation , of listening to the text speaking for itself , to a more removed perspective from which de Man and his reader stand back from that text and speculate on a general rule about language . |
| 6 | Before I stand back from this chapter , a summary . |
| 7 | He is very unselfishly standing down from this scheme although the Group Captain did offer him a place on it in recognition of his services to the committee . |