Example sentences of "[pron] stood up " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's all right , I was just leaving , ’ I said , and I stood up . |
| 2 | I stood up and shook it . |
| 3 | I was so surprised I stood up . |
| 4 | I stood up and shook hands with both of them saying slowly , ‘ My name is Bill Millin . ’ |
| 5 | I stood up and gazed along the barrel of the Bren gun and could n't help smiling to myself and thinking that Taff was at his funniest when he was annoyed about something , even though our circumstances at the moment were anything but funny . |
| 6 | I stood up as the Sergeant approached . |
| 7 | Planting a booted foot securely on a rock in the stream , I stood up . |
| 8 | Most attention concentrated on the last sentence of my statement which I had inserted just before I stood up in the House of Commons : |
| 9 | I stood up for a gasp of air , ducked down again , searching with fingers , with feet , with urgency turning to appalling alarm . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Still , we reached the end in a while , and I stood up and tugged him back until he was sitting wedged in the corner , supported by the rear and side walls . |
| 12 | I stood up with knees that felt like buckling and tried to open the door into the dock ; and it was as immovable from outside as from in . |
| 13 | ‘ Right , sir , ’ Doone said , as I stood up out of the car , ‘ we 've done nothing here so far . |
| 14 | They were both reeling about exchanging swinging blows not ten feet from table six and I stood up automatically , more in defence than interference . |
| 15 | So , OK , hauling on branches , I stood up . |
| 16 | I stood up and shook his hand . |
| 17 | Surkov and I stood up and stretched . |
| 18 | I felt stifled , so one day , right in the middle of a huge novel by Theodore Dreiser , I stood up and said : ‘ No , I ca n't go on . ’ |
| 19 | The first time I stood up to cross-examine the CEGB 's opening witness , Derek Davis — the man who had said in 1952 that there was ‘ no strong local opposition ’ to Hinkley C — I felt as though I was floundering in a mess of unthought-out quibbles . |
| 20 | I stood up to stretch my legs , to rub my put-upon bum , when suddenly there was an eruption at one end of the carriage and an American shouted , ‘ Hey , watch it ! |
| 21 | On this occasion , in fact , a reply of sorts did occur to me as I stood up there on the ladder ; a reply to the effect that those of our profession , although we did not see a great deal of the country in the sense of touring the countryside and visiting picturesque sites , did actually see more of England than most , placed as we were in houses where the greatest ladies and gentlemen of the land gathered . |
| 22 | ‘ As soon as I stood up I knew it was going to be bad . |
| 23 | He said something to me and I stood up and waved the cue around . |
| 24 | I stood up and began to walk impatiently up and down the cell in the darkness . |
| 25 | I stood up and looked at the Feldwebel . |
| 26 | I stood up and went out into the corridor . |
| 27 | The coach journey the next day to Helsinki airport was very long , and when I stood up to get off I finally pulled my hamstring . |
| 28 | I stood up . |
| 29 | If I stood up there outside the zoo and started screaming ? |
| 30 | I stood up and said , ‘ C'm on , we 'll get drenched out here . ’ |