Example sentences of "stood [adv] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Martha stood patiently for a long time while her mother tried one dress after another on her , hoping to find a colour that made her skin seem paler and a cut that disguised her skeletal proportions . |
| 2 | Everyone stood aside for the barrel-like KGB colonel in full uniform and his scruffy civilian companion . |
| 3 | And he bustled out on to the landing to fetch a straight-backed chair that stood there for no particular reason . |
| 4 | She stood there for a long time , thinking the whole thing out . |
| 5 | And her uncle with me beside you and whole wedding and the minister was saying , sit down and do n't he he brought her up the aisle , I do n't know whether her father 's coming back or something , and he says no I 'm not sitting like , he says no I 'm not moving back and he stood there for the whole wedding like , back . |