Example sentences of "stood [adv] [prep] [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lower bruised his left leg and was stood down for the rest of the afternoon by the course doctors . |
| 2 | Then they all saw that the royal lance , which had stood upright at the door of the tent , had been flung down so violently that its point had pierced the breast-plate of his piled armour ; and the shaft of the lance was twisted and discoloured , all the armour dinted , and the royal pennant charred as if it had been burned . |
| 3 | They had met a few days after Mina had stood up at the end of a recital in the Usher Hall at Edinburgh to announce that she would very much like to stay here in England ( a tiny mistake the Scots reporters had kindly ignored ) rather than return to East Germany . |
| 4 | You 're stood up for a number of offenses , the first of which is that on the twenty first of June nineteen eighty eight you , on the public road way in Accrington Road Worley used the mechanics of the vehicle when there was an excise licence in force , it 's an offence of the vehicles excise act in nineteen seventy one . |
| 5 | Julia flinched as she heard that and wondered how she herself would have stood up to the kind of life Raffaella was describing . |
| 6 | Margarete 's memorialising book about Milena , published when the author was already in her late seventies , gives grimly graphic pictures of camp life , and underlines , as if it were needed , how the two womens ' all too comprehensive experience of two totalitarian systems led Milena to declare that Stalinism and Hitlerism were indistinguishable ( as a result of which the communists ' leader in the camp declared that ‘ after the liberation Milena Jesenska and Margarete Buber-Neumann would be stood up against the wall by the Red Army . ’ |
| 7 | Barrio had stood unsuccessfully for the governorship of Chihuahua in 1986 , and claimed that Fernando Baeza Melendez of the PRI had won that election fraudulently . |
| 8 | David Damiani set off from here with his family in April 1948 , and it was not difficult to see how clearly the old factory and the church above the city must have stood out on the horizon as the Argentina slipped past the tide bar and steamed for Beirut . |
| 9 | That churn 's stood out in the rain for a long time . |
| 10 | The most publicized cases of such non-co-operation have occurred where some authorities have stood out against the minister on a highly political issue . |
| 11 | That ethnic allegiance can swing support was illustrated by the defection to the NRC last week of Chukwuemeka Ojukwu , who led the attempt to create an independent Biafra in the 1960s , although he had stood earlier in the year as a candidate for the SDP . |
| 12 | I must have stood there for a couple of hours , getting more and more fed up as my imagination worked overtime . |
| 13 | It was but er the market was so low that he decided not to well I do n't think he could get a buyer actually , it 's just stood there so he he he let it out rather than have it stood there with the option for us to buy it but I say now the prices are lower he 's not keen on selling it at that price . |
| 14 | She had stood there like a damsel in a high tower , imprisoned by her own fears , and had said imperiously , ‘ Here I am . |
| 15 | At the funeral Duncan had stood apart from the rest of the family . |