Example sentences of "stood for " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Hundreds of eyes stared fixedly as the laird stepped out onto the gravel and stood for a moment with his chin jutting and his mouth pulled down , like a general reviewing his troops . |
| 3 | He stood for a minute , appraising the close-fitted timbers and sleek varnish , then knocked again . |
| 4 | Lorca stood for something else — for life and the day-today dynamic of men and women . |
| 5 | She stood for hours behind him , seeing him sketch , then stop and change what he had drawn . |
| 6 | Yet , without doubt , they would have been horrified by Morris Zapp and what he stood for . |
| 7 | Yeats in a letter specifically invoked the name of Wilfred Scawen Blunt on one of many occasions when he girded in rage against the ‘ unnatural labour ’ that verse writing had become for him , with the disappearance of the less egalitarian society that Gregory and Blunt stood for . |
| 8 | Billy English stood for an English clan wider than his immediate family . |
| 9 | Is it realising the socialist ideals that we stood for ? |
| 10 | Hilda Bernstein , the wife of one of those on trial , wrote : ‘ The Rivonia trial was a confrontation in which the opposing forces in South Africa appeared face to face ; those who stood for apartheid … and those who opposed it . |
| 11 | Relating that to Labour 's ‘ unprecendented mass conversion ’ to moderation in Brighton last week , Mrs Thatcher said she did not believe her opponents now stood for home ownership , strong defence and financial rectitude . |
| 12 | I replaced the blanket over his head and stood for a few moments looking at the bodies in their neat little rows . |
| 13 | Durham stood for an idyll of ten years . |
| 14 | At breakfast together Fisher exploded and attacked the Church Union and all that it stood for and said that they had done great harm and ought to apologize . |
| 15 | For several hours we would be transported via the newsreel to the exotic East , where American soldiers were valiantly fighting the red , or was it yellow peril , and then to the Wild West , where Hoot Gibson or Eddy Dean would be showing cattle rustlers or unfriendly Indians ‘ what America stood for ’ . |
| 16 | As the credits rolled my mother and father , like most filmgoers of that generation , stood for the National Anthem . |
| 17 | He declined , although a member of GEMA , and stood for the post of national chairman . |
| 18 | The first factor to bring about the overthrow of the gens and all it stood for was the appearance within the ‘ gentle constitution ’ ( the gens stage ) of the pairing family . |
| 19 | A vote for Fox became , absurdly , a vote for the Church , a vote for Orthodoxy , a vote far all the things which Lewis now ‘ stood for ’ . |
| 20 | He was famous , people flocked to catch a glimpse of him , they stood for hours in the freezing cold in the hope that he would choose their hand to shake — for no better reason than an accident of birth . |
| 21 | Free Cinema , which had Anderson as its spokesman , was always more certain of what it was against than what it stood for . |
| 22 | While we stood for election alongside the men , a decision taken in July by Labour MPs to bring more women into prominent positions in the party ensured that at least three women would be elected . |
| 23 | Mr Wolfgang Berghofer , the 46-year-old mayor of Dresden who had been tipped to become the new party chief , said yesterday that he and a renewed party stood for a break with Stalinism and instead wanted socialism with a human face . |
| 24 | In the theatre , a single chariot-wheel propelled across the stage stood for a whole army : in the film version , you have horses , chariots , contending extras . |
| 25 | Posters said the SED stood for Sauwirtschaft ( piggery ) , Egoismus ( selfishness ) and Diebstahl ( theft ) . |
| 26 | The younger Dr Gysi used a term from the 1920s when he said he stood for a ‘ third path between Stalinism and capitalism ’ . |
| 27 | Posters said the SED stood for Sauwirtschaft ( piggery ) , Egoismus ( selfishness ) and Diebstahl ( theft ) . |
| 28 | The Polish Parliament stood for a minute 's silence after approving unanimously a resolution which accused the Romanian authorities of ‘ exceptional brutality ’ leading to children being shot at and expressed solidarity with the ‘ victims of terror . ’ |
| 29 | A more stylish and dramatic return to English tradition came about through the Arts and Crafts Movement , which stood for integrity and truthfulness and believed whole-heartedly in the use of local craftsmen and materials . |
| 30 | Voysey stood for a drastic and stylized return to English country tradition and , along with Charles Rennie Mackintosh , relied on simplicity of composition for greatest effect . |