Example sentences of "[conj] stand [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although a lot of his story is still relevant to us cos you can see it in today 's life when people stand up for themselves or stand up for their faith or what they believe in and you look around you , you can see violence and being done to them . |
| 2 | Perhaps I would move , or stand up , or … |
| 3 | Being told to do things like not run in the corridor , or stand up when the governor comes in . |
| 4 | More often than not no-one bothers about the height factor , with the result that the speaker may have to peer at his notes or stand awkwardly or otherwise find it impossible to combine proper use of the mike with proper use of the lectern . |
| 5 | It was just that suddenly he felt he could not look up , that he could n't , as he put it , either stand it any longer , or stand any longer . |
| 6 | or stand there while I read you Robert Burns . ’ |
| 7 | or stand together in a rising mist |
| 8 | The question for the nation and this House is whether we participate in the process of union or stand aside . |
| 9 | There 's nothing you can do except stand up for your own and try and get Liam out before two o'clock . |
| 10 | The Russians speedily crushed the revolt , with the USA unable to do more than stand by and condemn their action . |
| 11 | Decca 's principal mid-price label in terms of size is ‘ Ovation ’ , an extensive repertoire with something for everybody , in performances that stand confidently against the latest full price issues . |
| 12 | However , we recognized you know that stand down . |
| 13 | For the diminutive Andy — people often wonder how he hauls around the pro bags that stand as high as him — the triumphs he has shared with Nick Faldo are something of a fulfilment of his own ambition of winning the titles himself : he started as a tournament professional with dreams of a major championship before realizing he would not make the grade as a pro , and so took up the bag instead of the club . |
| 14 | Further symbolism can be found in the row of sixteen dark metal columns that stand along one side , one for each Land . |
| 15 | Denofa wanted to achieve an edge over rivals by marketing its Solidox brand in tubes that stand upright on their caps without outer cartons . |
| 16 | That view is reinforced by the Newsons , who say : ‘ The measures that stand out as the most predictive of criminal record before 20 years are having been smacked or beaten once or more a week at 11 , and having a mother with a high commitment to formal physical punishment at that age . ’ |
| 17 | The occasions that stand out in the three decades of our post-imperial era are : Duncan Sandys ' 1957 decision to recommend the end of National Service , which almost halved the Army ; the Kennedy/Macmillan Polaris agreement at Nassau in 1962 that led to the RAF losing responsibility to the Royal Navy for the British nuclear deterrent ; Denis Healey 's scrapping of the TSR2 in 1965 , which threatened to ‘ unhorse ’ the RAF 's knights ; his cancellation of the aircraft-carrier replacement programme in 1966 , which did much the same thing to the Royal Navy ; and John Nott 's attempt in 1981 to maintain the strength of the Rhine Army and RAF Germany at the expense of our maritime capability . |
| 18 | Now let us consider the concept of reconciliation and note the elements that stand out . |
| 19 | The Baths are the thing that stand out most in my mind . |
| 20 | Evidently , one tends to forget the worst episodes over time , and remembers only those items that stand out for some reason ’ . |
| 21 | As much because of what is left unsaid as because of what is directly described , The Albatross is one of those exceptions which suggest that the junior adventure story has always suffered under unnecessary limitations : the names that stand out in the genre are those who in various ways have ignored or overridden these limitations . |
| 22 | They talked until the horses , squealing and nipping at each other , turned away to hurry purposefully across the field and stand afar , clouds of their breath plumed against the winter air . |
| 23 | Football League President Gordon McKeag is set to resign his post and stand again as an independent candidate . |
| 24 | Make sure the mags are off , mixture is in ICO and stand well clear of the prop arc . |
| 25 | Whereas greens and blues are cool and make flowers seem to recede , reds and yellows are warm colours that attract attention and stand forward from paler flowers . |
| 26 | The gluteus maximus muscle in the buttocks makes it possible to pull the legs back , push the hips forward and stand up straight . |
| 27 | This is the music playing in a thousand thousand houses while we have our drinks and eat our meals and stand up and shout . |
| 28 | Now I can put both feet flat on the floor and stand up straight without slouching or bending a knee or looking strained in any way . |
| 29 | It should be noted before going any further that for a sample survey to be of any value at all the sampling procedure must be open to scrutiny and stand up to criticism . |
| 30 | Will you leave go , lad , and stand up … |