Example sentences of "[noun sg] stand against " in BNC.
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| 1 | A plump settee stands against the mantel , turquoise . |
| 2 | DEFIANT Ralph Knight last night revealed his intention to stand against Labour in the county council elections after being repeatedly snubbed by the party . |
| 3 | My own flesh and blood stands against my will . |
| 4 | The characteristic historical product of a lineage standing against the world is a transmitted ideology . |
| 5 | He laughed in the face of the Colonel , and at the watcher standing against the door . |
| 6 | A spade and a pitchfork stood against the wall beneath , beside a pair of boots , the mud on them dried , flaky to the touch . |
| 7 | There was a large brown wardrobe standing against the wall with a block of wood supporting one of its damaged feet . |
| 8 | On a desk by the window a tray of stamps was in process of being sorted ; there were bookshelves , a cabinet of shallow drawers presumably for coins , a safe , a filing cabinet , journals and catalogues were piled on the floor and , incongruously , a pier table and a French commode stood against one wall looking uncomfortable . |
| 9 | A black upright piano stood against one wall , the candles in its sconces burning brightly . |
| 10 | An upright piano stood against one wall , a row of framed photographs on top of it . |
| 11 | Some experienced speakers ask a friend to stand against the back wall and signal with hands facing forward by their ears if you need to speak louder , and with hands horizontal if you should speak more softly . |
| 12 | George Lansbury , speaking at Shoreditch Town Hall in January 1924 , reminded the monarch that ‘ Some centuries ago a King stood against the common people and he lost his head . ’ |
| 13 | There was a battered shovel standing against a wall and I seized it . |
| 14 | Well , there 's never been a man to stand against me and see another day ! ’ |
| 15 | If there is more to be achieved in this forum , then I think my clients would like to fight for it because we we do believe that we would we do believe that logic and technical sense stands against the proposal that 's in the structure plan at the moment . |
| 16 | The disloyal mutterings about his leadership will grow , as will the possibility of a token candidate standing against him when his party position comes up for formal renewal in November . |
| 17 | A spare full cylinder stood against the wall behind his bed . |
| 18 | A low folding bed stood against a wall with a single red blanket on it . |
| 19 | Why had n't she the strength to stand against her aunt 's demands ? she wondered , not for the first time . |
| 20 | ‘ Ca n't you have the decency to stand against a wall ? ’ he hissed . |
| 21 | The grandfather clock standing against one wall was a wedding present to her parents . |
| 22 | For a few years a lean-to building stood against the remaining old wall which sheltered the homeless and I have spoken to one old inhabitant of Halling who remembers coming to the village as a young child and whose parents , being unable to afford other accommodation , sheltered there . |
| 23 | Sweeney stands against those whose personal taste is too closely linked to morality in a falsely genteel way . |