Example sentences of "stand up and [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm , what happens of course , is th that the lecture is brilliantly delivered , er , but , but , what happens is he , the chauffeur finishes two minutes early and the chairman , being excellent as a Chairperson , actually says , we have time for just one question , and er , someone stands up and asks the most dreadful question from the audience , and er , the chauffeur listens to the question , thinks , and th then says , that 's questions very easy , very easy indeed , that question is so easy , I 'm going to ask my chauffeur who is sitting at the back of the room |
| 2 | Erm they are going into the villages , they 're making contacts with individual peasants erm it 's those peasants that , that they get to stand up and make the first accusations , it 's those peasants who join the Party erm and the process can build up in , in a way which was more difficult before then . |
| 3 | I did n't have to stand up and tell the whole truth of my heart unless I wanted to . |
| 4 | Each recruit had to stand up and sing a song in his own language . |
| 5 | You know y y y y you 're a poor peasant and the Party 's coming in in conditions of civil war and we say right erm we 've got ta get land reform and the land reform process is being done , not by the Party coming in and imposing it , it is very much done by the Party encouraging and enabling the peasants to , to take the moves themselves , to stand up and begin the criticism . |
| 6 | No longer the excuse of keeping low profile actions , hoping for a Labour government because if we have n't got the guts to stand up and fight the government that made these laws , then we 've got no right to challenge a future Labour government that inherits 'em . |
| 7 | Stand up and make a positive statement . |
| 8 | I said I do n't want and Keith says , I , I get so angry I , I stand up and give the boat such a wack |
| 9 | Cos when we shared it out between three it was like if you just stand up and have a look along there . |
| 10 | I shall stand up and sing the national anthem and encourage all those around me to do the same . ’ |
| 11 | I shall stand up and sing the national anthem and encourage all those around me to do the same . ’ |
| 12 | It was fabulous because King Crimson had such a tremendous sound and such a tremendous image that for them to suddenly stand up and do a lot of Buddy Holly hits with Donovan singing vocals was really cute . |
| 13 | ‘ We can do it if the leadership of this nation will just stand up and do the right thing . ’ |
| 14 | On the command of ‘ 1-2-3 lift ’ , both helpers should stand up and carry the person to a chair or bed . |
| 15 | Oh gosh , I mean , well you can , you can stand up and use the |
| 16 | one is that i it may be that the old moral economy worked because the peasants recognized that , in a sense , that was the way they w well they , they could not stand up and criticize the landlord th the , the most they could do was to try and get the landlord to behave in a reasonable way , and that within that there would then be the sub-culture , the counter-culture of , of beginnings of mutual aid and what is happening in is in part that the communists are making them think the old moral economy work , but in part they are picking up on those sub- culture bits because the , the , the whole of mutual aid idea is , is coming from existing peasant cooperations . |
| 17 | He should stand up and repudiate the threat in the House . |
| 18 | I mean i i i the these are individual peasants from a village who are standing up and taking the lead in criticizing landlords etcetera but , but they , they are not the Party cadres coming in from outside . |
| 19 | Having dared , with one or two others , to open the door , I feel I 've been trampled in the rush and I 'm now standing up and waving a little flag saying , ‘ No , no , this is where we should be . ' |
| 20 | Before she knew it Rosa had stood up and deposited the soft warm bundle in Ruth 's arms . |
| 21 | She stood up and told the meeting that she agreed . |
| 22 | Before the pudding was cut the Reverend Morey stood up and rapped the table to attract attention . |
| 23 | Blufton stood up and plunged a pudgy hand into a concertina file . |
| 24 | She stood up and carried the cold coffee into the kitchen . |
| 25 | Then he stood up and rebuked the wind ( Matt . |
| 26 | Rico stood up and left the room . |
| 27 | The Shah stood up and left the room without a word . |
| 28 | We stood up and left the house by the back door . |
| 29 | The judge stood up and left the courtroom . |
| 30 | He stood up and left the room with only the barest nod at both of them . |