Example sentences of "stand up on [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even now if I look at a video the hair still stands up on the back of the neck , and you get that tingle on the spine . |
| 2 | Cicely Hamilton commented in the course of a debate with G. K. Chesterton at Queen 's Hall in 1919 : ‘ Do you suppose that forty or fifty years ago a woman would have dared to stand up on a platform and say , without the slightest shame , that she was over thirty and unmarried ? |
| 3 | HP 's software effort for the new servers included endorsement from a veritable who's-who of mainframe software houses , all eager to stand up on the platform and say that their customers were queueing up to leave the IBM mainframe world behind . |
| 4 | and stand up on the pedals as I passed |
| 5 | St Wenceslas and St Vitus stand up on the cornice with Adalbert , the first bishop of Prague , and St Procopius , the patron saint of the Slavs . |
| 6 | The stories of what it was like there in the hours that followed , and of the lingering deaths of 31 of the most exposed people , make the hair stand up on the back of your neck . |
| 7 | People who 've seen it say it makes the hair stand up on the back of their necks . ’ |
| 8 | It 's hard to resist the malevolent allure of the Third Reich , and when I telephoned Sibylle one evening a week or so later , the sound of her rich , Teutonic voice eloquently describing its owner 's activities in the Hitler Youth movement made the hairs stand up on the back of my neck . |
| 9 | Every now and then one of them would stand up on the sofa and trample restlessly round like a dog resettling itself into its sleeping place . |
| 10 | Next day , the clan met out on the shore , where Eachuinn Odhar could stand up on the rocks among his officers , Donald Crubach at his side , and speak to all together . |
| 11 | Away to the south-west , on the far bank of the river , standing up on the desert bluffs , we could see the Pyramids of Giza , shimmering through the haze above the city . |
| 12 | So I was racing through South London on my bike , nearly getting crushed several times by lorries , head bent over the dropped handlebars , swiftly running through the ten Campagnola gears , nipping through traffic , sometimes mounting the pavement , up one-way streets , breaking suddenly , accelerating by standing up on the pedals , exhilarated by thought and motion . |
| 13 | I knew that during those brief immortal moments when I was standing up on the board , walking on water , I too felt like a supreme being , until the ocean cast me down again and turned me once more into a creeping thing that creepeth upon the face of the earth . |
| 14 | This basilica was replaced during the Renaissance by that now standing up on the site ( Volume 2 ) . |
| 15 | Actually the last time I was stood up on a platform and did this was in front of erm a S G T congress in Dieppe and I tell you I had to do it in French , and it was much more difficult so I 'm hoping this one will go smoothly , but I , what I 'd really like to do is begin with is offer you erm delegates and platform both , a very very warm welcome from the trade union movement in Portsmouth . |
| 16 | Angus Cameron stood up on the oak stump which Donald used as a chopping-block , held out his hand to each part of the crowd as though drawing them into the circuit of the ceremony , and said , at first quietly , then gaining volume as he felt the truth of his words : ‘ Alexander McLaggan , Mary Stewart — you love each other , and must wed each other , and that is right and good . |
| 17 | The little man stood up on the foot rests , throttling back . |
| 18 | Annie stood up on the table . |
| 19 | The forty or so girls , dressed in mufti to mark their status as sixth-formers , stood up on the arrival of the speaker and his escort . |
| 20 | If I stood up on the walkway , I thought , I could probably stretch up and touch the ceiling , but would n't be able to reach the hole . |