Example sentences of "stand up in [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Since general public speaking courses are not preparing you to give a particular speech , but to give speeches in general , the first task is simply to get you to stand up in a room full of people and ask you to speak about anything you like for three minutes .
2 You can be too geriatric to stand up in a boat … and you might quiver a bit .
3 She had to stand up in the midst of a certain amount of pomp and ceremony and address a large audience , which included her own family , her husband , the Prime Minister , the Lord Mayor and a host of City dignitaries , many of them accomplished public speakers themselves .
4 She was trying to stand up in the pool but could n't because of the costume .
5 They all think that 's like he said they think oh stand up in the corridor , that 's alright , Amy said if you do n't if you have a holiday , you do n't get no money
6 I stand up in the entrance of my bower , still in shadow .
7 ‘ I doubt if His Grace would ever stand up in a court-room to give evidence on my behalf , but I counted on Magistrate Peck being afraid to put it to the test . ’
8 It had not occurred to him that he could stand up in the pub , leave the beer half-drunk , the sandwich half-eaten , walk out into the London early evening .
9 She saw Charlton Heston standing up in a jeep , dressed as a desert general , his shirt open to the waist , binoculars hanging against his hairy chest .
10 They eat standing up in the kitchen .
11 I remember opening my hood , disconnecting my oxygen and R/T connections and standing up in the cockpit .
12 Like I see her standing up in the toilet and I thought your hair looks nice in n it ?
13 In that moment she was n't sure if she could fling decorum to the wind and beg him to make love to her again , right there , standing up in the blackness of Ghar Hasan .
14 The Youngs were standing up in the dining room , ready to go to bed .
15 And the astonishingly big calf coming out with a slippery rush and then , a few minutes later , standing up in the straw on its thin , wobbly legs , its thickly lashed eyes mild and brown like its mother 's .
16 er the audience contact when you were actually stood up in the front and you 're there on your own just getting a little bit of feedback from the audience itself er does help and then the playback which erm I think it helped a lot to see how you faired particularly on that fir first attempt what areas you had to concentrate on to rectify your problems .
17 Swinging the horse 's head to face the massed coolies again , Duclos drew a long solid wood truncheon from a leather saddle scabbard and stood up in the stirrups .
18 Coffin stood up in the launch facing them .
19 As Richard stood up in the boat , he could be seen to hesitate , not about what he wanted to do , but about procedures .
20 She stood up in the boat .
21 We cheered three Egyptians who stood up in the body of the hall and cried , ‘ We want Nasser ’ .
22 Most attention concentrated on the last sentence of my statement which I had inserted just before I stood up in the House of Commons :
23 The second Lord Redesdale once stood up in the House of Lords to argue that ‘ denial of the hereditary principle is a direct blow at the Crown .
24 One night a man stood up in the stalls , swaying slightly , and said with a slight Scandinavian accent : ‘ Hellooo .
25 Detective Van Heflin stood up in the car , hat clamped to his head , firing his tommy gun from the hip .
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