Example sentences of "stand between [pers pn] and [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover , Unix System Labs and Novell Inc are believed to be antagonistic and resentful of UI if for no other reason than it stands between them and their OEM customers . |
| 2 | MacLachlan successfully obtained through Milton 's aid a delay in a foreclosure by the Royal Bank , and the freeholder hoped to persuade the politician to continue to stand between him and his creditors because of the value of his vote to the Argyll interest , arguing that |
| 3 | Those to whom he referred were unlikely to believe that Mosley would stand between them and their destruction . |
| 4 | The would-be seducer of the Fifties had to reckon with an armoury of uncooperative underwear which stood between him and his objective . |
| 5 | He threw her to the ground when she stood between him and his computer terminal one morning at 3am . |
| 6 | She could n't bear the rift that had come between her and the aunt who had always understood and helped her ; who had so many times stood between her and her mother as faithful friend wanting the best for them both and who was now so alienated from her . |
| 7 | Nothing stood between you and your fellows in the community . |