Example sentences of "stood up [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Dora stood up with the glass in her hand . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | The little man stood up on the foot rests , throttling back . |
4 | Annie stood up on the table . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | It was n't until Ronni stood up at the shore 's edge that she saw Guido standing watching her , bare feet planted in the sand . |
8 | Vincent stood up at the back of the room and walked modestly along the wall to the platform . |
9 | up there and all of a sudden he saw it and he came in the room , Tony and he went he looked up at it and the stood up at the back of his neck and he was going grurgh ever so quietly under his breath grurgh . |
10 | It stood up to the race well and he and co-driver John Anthony had a fabulous time . |
11 | He retreated to the deepest part and stood up to the chest in filth , weeping . |
12 | In particular , Manuela , the girl who had wiped the word maricone from the blackboard , stood up to the rowdies and lashed them with her tongue . |
13 | Only the Jews and the Iranians stood up to the Romans , as they had stood up to the Seleucids . |
14 | I stood up for a gasp of air , ducked down again , searching with fingers , with feet , with urgency turning to appalling alarm . |
15 | When this goon is at the point of his beat furthest away from our stretch of wire , the Wing Commander will give the signal to Clinker here — ’ a dark beetle-like man stood up for a moment and sat down again , ‘ — who will fuse the entire lighting system of the camp including the searchlights . ’ |
16 | He then stood up for the sentence , his hands on the dock rail . |
17 | Deeply committed to the pursuit of mathematics and the physical sciences , he stood up for the universities when they were attacked by vituperative radicals such as Cromwell 's army chaplain , John Webster . |
18 | I pushed the black case deep into the hanging space again , stood up outside the door , closed it and went back to the scenes of jollity to the rear . |
19 | He pushed off from the wall , stood up as the leader , pointing at one of his men , issued a muffled order . |
20 | Alice stood up as the train slowed at the platform . |
21 | As he spoke , so Ray Doyle 's voice hardened , and he stood up from the armchair , hoping that Jack Stone was getting the message : the favour was over . |
22 | He stood up from the flight deck console and crossed over to where Postine lay , successfully sedated , on a buttress . |
23 | 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 . |
24 | Coffin stood up in the launch facing them . |
25 | As Richard stood up in the boat , he could be seen to hesitate , not about what he wanted to do , but about procedures . |
26 | She stood up in the boat . |
27 | We cheered three Egyptians who stood up in the body of the hall and cried , ‘ We want Nasser ’ . |
28 | Most attention concentrated on the last sentence of my statement which I had inserted just before I stood up in the House of Commons : |
29 | 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 . |
30 | One night a man stood up in the stalls , swaying slightly , and said with a slight Scandinavian accent : ‘ Hellooo . |