Example sentences of "standing up [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm the actual post I liked , I 'm glad it 's standing up above the horizon because at least that way , you know , i it does it 's given some dominance in the picture . |
| 2 | A leading liberal , Mr Martin Lee , whose United Democrats won a landslide in elections for the partially-democratic legislature in September , defined the Governor 's job differently : ‘ He must be committed to democratising Hong Kong and to standing up for the territory 's interests , especially in the case of conflict with Britain and China . |
| 3 | That can often mean standing up for the client and criticising the system , ’ he says . |
| 4 | If the choice now is between shoring up a democratically bankrupt Westminster or standing up for the restoration of Scottish democracy , then I am for Scottish democracy . |
| 5 | But he has made standing up to the teaching unions his thing . |
| 6 | The CIT 's members are standing up to the recession and keeping close to their customers and associates . |
| 7 | It was very successful , both in appearance and in standing up to the wear small children give their clothes . |
| 8 | Oh oh my hair 's standing up at the back of my neck . |
| 9 | The more he thought of the two carpet-baggers standing up at the podium , the more intense the pains in his head became . |
| 10 | I spent the morning sitting on the floor and the afternoon standing up at the shelf . |
| 11 | ‘ Now that it 's over , you 'd expect they 'd start getting things right at last , would n't you ? ’ said Mrs Parvis , standing up at the end of the table to ladle out to her assembled household . |
| 12 | because if he put the bath right in there , I would be standing up at the end of the bath |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | This basilica was replaced during the Renaissance by that now standing up on the site ( Volume 2 ) . |
| 16 | Gilbert and Frye were standing up against the glass panes of the reception area , staring out into the storm-ravaged night . |
| 17 | ‘ We have always been a very tired family , ’ Finch said loftily to Henry , both aged twenty-eight , Finch lying back in a large bed with his cello on his ex-girl friend 's pillow and Henry standing up by the gas fire . |
| 18 | ‘ Riot guides and drug protests and minor jokes about policemen , ’ said a man in a mackintosh , standing up by the gas fire and talking fixedly about the broadsheet , eying it in its filing place . |
| 19 | He ate it standing up by the sink , and deliberately left the little pot on the marble work surface . |
| 20 | They eat standing up in the kitchen . |
| 21 | I remember opening my hood , disconnecting my oxygen and R/T connections and standing up in the cockpit . |
| 22 | Like I see her standing up in the toilet and I thought your hair looks nice in n it ? |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The Youngs were standing up in the dining room , ready to go to bed . |
| 25 | 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 . |