Example sentences of "to stand [adj] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He wheeled his horse , and roared his own knights round upon their bowmen ; and the loyal among the marksmen set up an answering howl , and fell out as best they could , leaping sidelong into the bushes and up the heathery slope , to stand clear of the slaughter and find a vantage-point again from which they could play their part . |
| 2 | An illuminated indicator told them to stand clear of the doors and then they closed . |
| 3 | Remember that unless you are fitting within a window reveal , your track should , where possible , extend beyond the sides of the window to enable the curtain to stand free of the window during daylight . |
| 4 | Lord Young has had to battle hard ever since to defend both his original deferment of publication and his decision to stand fast despite the leak . |
| 5 | Then Petra , a group which looks and sounds like Led Zeppelin , but is given to quoting from St Paul 's epistle to the Ephesians ( 6:11-17 : ‘ Put on the full armour of God , that you may be able to stand firm against the schemes of the devil … ’ ) , is for you . |
| 6 | Mrs Scrivener was sharply rebuked , not least by the Commission President , Jacques Delors , and she has been instructed to stand firm against the governments ' proposal today and tell ministers to think again . |
| 7 | Even at sixteen , Will refuses to stand still at the beginning of a season for a presentation , but clams down as the year progresses . |
| 8 | A horse that has had no exercise all day is less likely to stand still for the farrier than one that has just been ridden ; and a youngster that has never been ridden out on the road before will be considerably more nervous if it goes alone than it would with a companion . |
| 9 | They then have to stand still in the water with their arms out and their legs apart until one of the others playing frees them . |
| 10 | She stepped into the cockpit , picked her way across it , and went to stand alone on the weapons platform . |
| 11 | I did not see her again until during the afternoon lessons , when I noticed that she had been sent to stand alone in the middle of the schoolroom . |
| 12 | I did so , feeling rather strange to stand half-undressed in the presence of a mummified corpse . |
| 13 | Everyone 's position was dubious in some respect : no one had been able to stand aloof from the efforts of Philip and Mary to turn England back to popery , and all except the few convinced Romanists in the village hoped that the days of compulsory religion and inquisitions would now be over . |
| 14 | ‘ Stay there , ’ he said and got out to stand close to the vehicle . |
| 15 | Soon , thought Melissa sadly , it would be the turn of Uncle Vittorio and Aunt Rosina to stand sorrowing over the grave of their niece . |