Example sentences of "stood up [conj] [verb] [to-vb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now she stood up and began to march restlessly round the room , swinging her long gun by its handle . |
| 2 | I stood up and began to walk impatiently up and down the cell in the darkness . |
| 3 | He stood up and began to pace restlessly round the room , stopping occasionally by the door to squint out through the perspex porthole , by the table to lean across it and impale her on his eyes , or by the wall where he sent his hands into spirals of explanation . |
| 4 | Now , he stood up and began to pace purposefully round the room , making Ari 's head whirl as she tried to follow him with her eyes . |
| 5 | A novelist from Ghana stood up and demanded to know why Surkov had used the expression ‘ black and white ’ . |
| 6 | She touched Midnight 's shoulder and said in his ear : ‘ I 'll not desert thee , ’ then stood up and went to climb down the ladder . |