Example sentences of "stood up and [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The shop steward then stood up and asked whether the management would be so kind as to tell him which men would be involved so that he could inform their wives now . ’ |
| 2 | The most constructive move was when Linda Bellos stood up and announced that she thought that the group was a complete waste of time unless it had power , and to have power it would have to be a Council Committee with the right to interfere in all other committees . |
| 3 | Thousands of school children , all of them well over sixteen , were crammed there into a large tall gilt room , and told not to insult the French , not to talk to Arabs , and not to go to Montmartre : then an English lady stood up and said that Paris had always been for her a source inépuisable de something , and everyone clapped , and then they were all turned out again , rather quickly , for the room was clearly needed for something else . |
| 4 | Yet he then stood up and said that he would be making a statement in the valleys tomorrow . |
| 5 | The tiger stood up and stretched and began his pacing again , back and forth , on and on . |
| 6 | That 's why I stood up and shouted when the homes were to be closed . |
| 7 | ‘ I say , ’ the Times reader stood up and dithered while Kelly took a firmer hold of Broom-Parker 's bristling moustache . |
| 8 | Sweeney has no sooner stood up and shaved than he appears in a vision of reversion taking the form of the second parenthesis , the importance of whose material strains against the parenthetical format , guiding our reading of the poem : |