Example sentences of "stand in [prep] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've rather doubt that he might not be and , and then Bert er , has very kindly said that he would erm , stand in for him to second this resolution . |
| 2 | The first of the two meetings then was of the regional chairman of BAIE ( and I was standing in for ours in Scotland ) followed by a meeting of the Council of BAIE . |
| 3 | So put down , I 've only just missed two things out on health , there was the breathing and erm should be standing in for me on all four feet behind but not four it 's quite normal |
| 4 | Would you and Karen mind standing in for me for a while ? ’ |
| 5 | He thought with envy of the young locum doctor standing in for him at home , seeing his patients at this very moment , and then he thought of his ex-wife , and his ex-cat , which used to sleep on their bed , and then with interest and longing of flukes , the flukes of absorption that can at least put the unforgettable at some merciful remove . |
| 6 | In 1469 , King Louis XI of France conferred with King Henry IV of Castile here ; in 1526 the captive King Francis I was exchanged for his two sons , who stood in for him as hostages with his great enemy , the Emperor Charles V ; in 1659 , the Peace of the Pyrenees between France and Spain was negotiated on the island ; and a year later , the contract of marriage was signed which consolidated that epoch-making treaty , between Louis XIV and the Infant a ( it was while helping to decorate the Spanish pavilion for the occasion that the painter Velázquez is said to have caught his death of cold ) . |