Example sentences of "[pers pn] stood for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I pulled the door shut and almost ran to the front door and into Langdon Crescent garden , where I stood for five minutes breathing in the fresh air . |
| 2 | I stood for a long time in a telephone box just to keep out of the slicing rain . |
| 3 | I stood for a long while looking at Voting Right . |
| 4 | This done , I stood for a moment looking across at the broch islet . |
| 5 | I stood for a moment looking at the mattress on the bed where a knife had been used to open up the sides . |
| 6 | I stood for a long time , staring at the mirror . |
| 7 | At the previous election I stood for election to a United Kingdom Parliament , as did the hon. Gentleman . |
| 8 | Dad Tam : " You promise me you will never tell anybody " til " am deed that I stood for the man who made that statue . " |
| 9 | In nineteen sixty six I stood for election of the national organizer and was successful and joined the head office in Glasgow in May nineteen sixty six . |
| 10 | But our to avoid that situation I left and went to work with which kept me in the Edinburgh branch and within three or four weeks I stood for the local organizer and had not been successful . |
| 11 | When er I stood for the election of the national organizers for the East of Scotland and I was successful there and I left the Edinburgh branch in May nineteen sixty six to start work with the head office in nine May nineteen sixty six . |
| 12 | And it seems that the money , in so far as it emerges in budgets that clearly , is determined by crude political muscle and nothing to do with reason and analysis — all the things that you stood for in the sixties and seventies . |
| 13 | And then every year after that , they used to hold the one minute 's silence which the mill whistles went and of course you stood for a minute and then they went again and that was it over . |
| 14 | She stood for a moment on the other side of the room , sizing me up ( and me sizing her up ) , and then she came over to speak to me . |
| 15 | She stood for hours behind him , seeing him sketch , then stop and change what he had drawn . |
| 16 | I had an old air-raid shelter , partly dug into the ground because of the slope : there was a load of stones on top , waiting to turn the shelter into an apple store disguised as a rockery , and when Mrs Wilson saw this she stood for a long time looking at the hump in the ground and the pile of stones . |
| 17 | ‘ Personal self-denial for the good of others was the first important lesson Annie learned , ’ says Taylor , ‘ and it was a principle by which she stood for the rest of her life . ’ |
| 18 | The undeniable need to establish a personality clear of the shadow of Mrs Thatcher was confounded with the mistaken urge to repudiate what she stood for . |
| 19 | She stood for a few moments catching her breath , then continued through to the kitchen . |
| 20 | Dalgliesh waited until Meg had unlocked the front door and stepped inside before saying his final goodnight , and she stood for a moment watching his tall figure striding down the gravel path and into the darkness . |
| 21 | She stood for a moment , her eyes closed , trying to collect her thoughts , while she struggled to put on her gloves . |
| 22 | She stood for a moment behind the thick black curtain , unwilling to pull it aside . |
| 23 | It was something that had never happened before and she stood for a moment trying to control the thoughts that raced through her head . |
| 24 | She stood for a moment staring round at the flickering shadows thrown by the lone candle , the fire had died long since and the room was cold and suddenly lonely . |
| 25 | There she stood for a long time , gazing out to sea , her heart full of sadness and her eyes full of tears . |
| 26 | She stood for a moment looking at them , and saw how their heads were tilted in the listening attitudes of forest creatures , how their ears were pricked , and how their eyes were bright and intelligent . |
| 27 | She stood for a moment with her head on one side , listening intently . |
| 28 | She stood for Parliament , unsuccessfully , as a pacifist Labour candidate in the general election of 1918 , and was appointed as an alderman to Battersea borough council in 1920 . |
| 29 | At the front of Laura 's mind constantly was the realization that these shops bore her name and everything in them must therefore reflect what she stood for . |
| 30 | Melissa found its clean , uncluttered lines at once calming and uplifting , and she stood for a few moments just inside the door , absorbing the tranquil atmosphere . |