Example sentences of "stand [adv prt] for a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We are able to stand down for a while in the evening to get some sleep , write letters , play darts or watch TV . |
| 2 | It started when a man working in the sorting office was suspended for refusing to stand in for a colleague who 'd gone sick . |
| 3 | Did you want to stand up for a minute ? |
| 4 | You 're obviously more cautious than you were before , and erm a lot of kids now they tend to stand back for a while just in case 'cause you can never judge how fast they 're really going to go through there . |
| 5 | He also points out that the expedition led by himself and Clark had assembled ‘ the best people , worldwide , and the top people ca n't afford to stand around for a couple of years waiting for research to happen ’ . |
| 6 | He also points out that the expedition led by himself and Clark had assembled ‘ the best people , worldwide , and the top people ca n't afford to stand around for a couple of years waiting for research to happen ’ . |
| 7 | Sometimes they stand in for a deity , haunting the sacred places and occupying a position midway between gods and men . |
| 8 | Well stand up for a start ! |
| 9 | John Thorn , who makes red boxes for ministers , is standing by for a rash of orders . |
| 10 | THE airpass holder who whinged to the Dallas check-in clerk that she had spent all day standing by for a flight out of one of America 's less attractive airports was gently chastised . |
| 11 | You 're stood up for a number of offenses , the first of which is that on the twenty first of June nineteen eighty eight you , on the public road way in Accrington Road Worley used the mechanics of the vehicle when there was an excise licence in force , it 's an offence of the vehicles excise act in nineteen seventy one . |
| 12 | The blue stood off for a moment , and the judge called another handle . |
| 13 | I stood up for a gasp of air , ducked down again , searching with fingers , with feet , with urgency turning to appalling alarm . |
| 14 | When this goon is at the point of his beat furthest away from our stretch of wire , the Wing Commander will give the signal to Clinker here — ’ a dark beetle-like man stood up for a moment and sat down again , ‘ — who will fuse the entire lighting system of the camp including the searchlights . ’ |