Example sentences of "[vb pp] to stand at " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few years back each golfer used his own collection of chipped and misshapen balls and the caddies were expected to stand at the end of the practice area and collect them . |
| 2 | The country 's commercial debt was said to stand at $10,600 million , plus $1,200 million in interest arrears , to some 500 banks . |
| 3 | She had gone to stand at the cemetery end after spotting Uncle Vernon on the touchline in front of the club-house . |
| 4 | O'Hara had risen and gone to stand at the mantelpiece . |
| 5 | While the university is taken to stand at " the apex of the educational edifice " , its position there is sufficiently elevated to cause the writers of the Report to retreat ( in this instance only ) into a narrow conception of their frame of reference , thereby justifying a refusal to address the work of the universities as a whole . |
| 6 | She will be doomed to stand at bay , |
| 7 | Will he confim that if unemployment figures were counted today on the same basis as they were in 1979 employment Ministers would be forced to stand at the Dispatch Box and admit that the number of economically active people who are unemployed in Great Britain today is 3.75 million ? |
| 8 | She was forced to stand at the back , squashed between a thin jeans-clad youth with bony shoulders and sharp elbows and a red-faced man with a paunch . |
| 9 | The pellet was allowed to stand at room temperature for 15 minutes to allow binding to occur and unbound 51-chromium was then removed by washing with 0.9% saline . |
| 10 | This mixture was allowed to stand at room temperature for 15 minutes . |
| 11 | The budgetary deficit , which in January 1990 had been estimated to stand at around Rs55,800 million , widened in June to Rs64,400 million [ see p. 37530 ] largely because of increased defence spending projected in 1990/91 at Rs63,300 million , or approximately 37 per cent of total expenditure [ see p. 37530 ] . |
| 12 | For centuries the continual struggle of ordinary country folk to harvest an income to keep them and their families above starvation level meant that they were always prepared to swallow their pride and go , cap in hand , to the gentry for a few vital coppers The same philosophy spawned the hiring fairs ( which continued until the second half of the century ) when the ‘ spare ’ children of rural ( and sometimes urban ) families , not required for work at home , were sent to stand at appointed places where prospective employers could examine and interrogate them checking their limbs for strength and making sure they were properly subservient There was n't a deal of difference , fundamentally , between hiring fairs ( as immortalized by Thomas Hardy in Far From the Madding Crowd and the weekly cattle auctions held in market towns . |
| 13 | It is like viewing an Impressionist painting , where the viewer is required to stand at a certain distance before the image comes into focus ; the bigger the individual strokes of paint , the further back the viewer has to stand . |
| 14 | Ten ratings were chosen to stand at selected points along the way . |