Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] to stand " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Have been reading ’ , I realized even as I struggled to find somewhere to stand the strawboard in the darkness , makes a somewhat smaller claim than ‘ have read ’ , and I scarcely expect that my ‘ books ’ , to anyone outside the very restricted world of philosophical studies , are going to include the two on Spinoza ; all of which suggests a second-hand and partial acquaintance with my only other work , Natural Man . |
| 2 | One has only to stand on the bridge over the Trannon at Trefeglwys and look upstream to see the stable narrow river coursing elegantly between its magnificent borders of ash and sycamore , and compare this with the immediate downstream reach , which wanders amidst a waste of gravel . |
| 3 | One has only to stand back and survey the scope of changes and the timescales involved to appreciate the problems encountered by senior management . |
| 4 | Not fool enough to stand aside and watch the best thing that 's ever happened to me wither away because I 'm too scared to let it put down roots . |
| 5 | For a moment — then the skylight in the beamed roof was flung up , and Frankenstein 's Adam came leaping down to stand before me in his wrath ! |
| 6 | The two men , who were completely sober despite their time in the bar , moved away to stand against the cracked plaster walls of the buildings to either side of the main road , glancing quickly around the corners to check for traffic . |
| 7 | After the South African War , he tried unsuccessfully to stand for the South African parliament before returning home to marry Lady Mary Douglas Hamilton . |
| 8 | Like all scientific findings , mine are actually nothing but readings on meters , printouts on papers , numbers derived from machines ( nothing but pointer-readings , the positivist philosopher and physicist Ernst Mach called such observations back at the beginning of this century ) , which I manipulate to extract meaning and which I then endeavour to extrapolate back to stand for , to represent , deductions about the behaviour of molecules , cells and organisms in the real world . |
| 9 | Fly here to stand by my side , sweet lady , for we can further the walls of Christendom on this isle in goodly state . |
| 10 | In this area , at least , the would-be functionalist is offered the kind of rich and intricate structure that may match the detailed organization of linguistic structure , and so can be claimed plausibly to stand in a causal relation to it . |
| 11 | She tried again to stand up . |
| 12 | He had offered the car to Hubert for the summer on condition that everyone promised never to stand on the running boards , because they were threatening to fall off . |
| 13 | ‘ Let me invite you to dinner in an hour , ’ said George , ‘ and ’ — this was addressed to Mrs Robinson , who had crept in to stand in the doorway and hear the end of the story , and now stepped forward to play a part — ‘ please , let us borrow your daughter for the evening so that we four can be a company . |
| 14 | The Front 's traditional candidate in the town told reporters that ‘ my friend Jean-Marie would do better to stand elsewhere ’ explaining that Niçois voters did not trust outsiders ! |
| 15 | Committee Miss J. Brown and Mrs. V. Hawkins have decided not to stand for re-election to the committee . |
| 16 | Committee Miss J. Brown and Mrs. V. Hawkins have decided not to stand for re-election to the committee . |
| 17 | He moved agitatedly across the room and then turned and came back to stand over Briant 's chair . |
| 18 | She came back to stand near Ludens . |
| 19 | He came back to stand directly in front of Nuadu . |
| 20 | Still looking doubtful , she went off to fill the order , and when Ellie had eaten it all , down to the very last scrap , and had two cups of coffee , she came back to stand at the table , full of admiration and amazement . |
| 21 | Liberty the group which owns the flagship store in Regent Street dipped 5p to 575p after its interim results came out , but the shares recovered quickly to stand at its opening 580p price . |
| 22 | Emily was being handed down to stand before the light-filled doorway of the Assembly Rooms and she took a deep breath of anticipation , this was her night , the night she was to be accepted as an adult and she would make the most of it . |
| 23 | John Taylor says he thought long and hard before deciding not to stand for the Conservatives in Cheltenham again . |
| 24 | It was used simply to stand against all that was feudal or pre-modern . |
| 25 | Alice smiled and nodded , and got up to stand at the window , looking out . |
| 26 | His eyes narrowed on her face , he put his cup down , stripped off his apron , and walked slowly to stand beside her chair so that she was forced to look up at him . |
| 27 | Alice squatted down , opened the case , took out her violin and bow and , hesitating only for a moment , walked over to stand by the others . |
| 28 | For a second he looked at her intently and then walked over to stand and search her face with dark eyes . |
| 29 | Shelley and Constance walked over to stand with them . |
| 30 | She waited for a moment and then walked off to stand in a different part of the ship . |