Example sentences of "stand up in [noun] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | IT CA N'T be very long before a rapist or a murderer stands up in court and pleads in defence : ‘ It was n't me , Your Honour , it was the Press . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I can imagine you could stand up in court and say a thing like that without blinking an eye , ’ he said as if the thought astonished him . |
| 3 | If they moved against him as if he were a common criminal , he would retaliate by standing up in court and defending himself . |
| 4 | It 's not just the end result of standing up in court and representing a client . |
| 5 | But just as quickly she remembered herself , barely thirteen , standing up in class and saying she did n't think the Catholic Church was fair and the nun , red in the face , asking who did she think she was to question the Pope 's teaching . |