Example sentences of "stand up [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The point , however , is that to build a house that stands up requires a knowledge of where every bit goes and what it does — and that knowledge is an order of magnitude and greater than one would have been able to guess at . |
| 2 | I have said before — and I say again — that unless the organisations and individuals concerned are prepared to stand up to resist the aggression of developers , we will lose many , many more aerodromes . |
| 3 | Raise the toes of the back leg and — without the toes touching back on the floor — stand up using the thigh strength of the front leg . |
| 4 | Indeed some of us think we now know what bankers in the republic felt like , if you stand up to make a speech the matter has moved on before you sit down again but I must tell you of the next major problem . |
| 5 | He compounded this appalling error of judgement by standing up to applaud the winners , a misguided attempt at gallantry which resulted in me trying to run out of the stadium and refusing to talk to him all the way home . |
| 6 | You 're standing up , I mean that 's not good for you standing up eating a meal you know . |
| 7 | They drink pints , work longer hours than any man on the team and practically pee standing up to convince the chaps they 're ‘ one of them ’ . |
| 8 | Colonel Moore , moved and perturbed , would have stood up to encounter the man squarely on but the pressure of Hope 's grip kept him down in his seat . |
| 9 | While you 're stood up while you 're stood up have a second and well each worship , right ? |
| 10 | The ballroom looked beautiful but when Sir Basil Feldman stood up to give the opening address at the Conservative Conference , though his projection was fine and his microphone working , half his audience had difficulty hearing , and a third were hearing twice . |
| 11 | The first time I stood up to cross-examine the CEGB 's opening witness , Derek Davis — the man who had said in 1952 that there was ‘ no strong local opposition ’ to Hinkley C — I felt as though I was floundering in a mess of unthought-out quibbles . |
| 12 | When the cheers and the clapping had died down at last , Don Mini stood up to make a speech . |
| 13 | He was nominated in January 1649 to the high court of justice for the trial of Charles I ; he did not attend the early stages of the court , but in the trial week he attended busily , and was in the group of commissioners who stood up to pass the sentence of death on Saturday 27 January . |
| 14 | He looked right whatever he wore , so handsome that girls stood up to catch a glimpse of him when he walked into a café . |