Example sentences of "stand up [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | . Or it stands up or you know you you go and put it in the cupboard , and all of a sudden there 's a there 's a there 's a face looking at you , you know . |
| 2 | Because nothing in his work stands up and says : Look at me , look how true , beautiful , profound , etc . |
| 3 | In the UK in the year to come , Joe Public will continue to pay the price ( perhaps with his life ) until he is a better citizen and stands up and protests enough about it . |
| 4 | He reaches into his bag , brings out a sandwich , then stands up and inspects it is the projector beam to see what it contains . |
| 5 | She lifts her eyebrows at me and then stands up and goes over to the sink . |
| 6 | It seems not , for Philip Swallow immediately removes his hand , stands up and moves to the window . ’ |
| 7 | Vic dismisses the meeting and , as the men file out , stands up and stretches . |
| 8 | If any Member wishes to object , he simply stands up and says ‘ object ’ . |
| 9 | The Speaker calls upon the Minister in charge who merely stands up and nods . |
| 10 | When the time comes , the Minister stands up and moves ‘ that the Bill be now read a second time ’ . |
| 11 | Pitt stands up and asks if I want a full tour of the house . |
| 12 | He stands up and extends his hand . |
| 13 | He stands up and mimes throwing a spear . |
| 14 | She stands up and rubs her body up against me , stroking my still mostly limp cock . |
| 15 | GUIL stands up and looks over the audience . ) |
| 16 | He stands up and taps on the table for silence , intending to announce this new discovery , in the hope that it will cause yet more laughter , and increase his reputation for honesty still further . |
| 17 | And er , later of course , he became the American Ambassador of Vienna , so Freud met him , but so , so , Bullett had a personal stake in this , but I must admit , er my own view was , was rather to admire Bullett for his stand , because it 's a rare politician who stands up and says look , you know , we 've been there , having made promises , we 've broken all of them , and we ought to resign , or you ought to resign . |
| 18 | He stands up and starts threatening Paul with an imaginary cattle prod . |
| 19 | Then she stands up and crosses to the other armchair . |
| 20 | Nobody stands up and says that we should n't be in the business at all , we should get rid of all of them , so all the argument about how many . |
| 21 | Erm , what happens of course , is th that the lecture is brilliantly delivered , er , but , but , what happens is he , the chauffeur finishes two minutes early and the chairman , being excellent as a Chairperson , actually says , we have time for just one question , and er , someone stands up and asks the most dreadful question from the audience , and er , the chauffeur listens to the question , thinks , and th then says , that 's questions very easy , very easy indeed , that question is so easy , I 'm going to ask my chauffeur who is sitting at the back of the room |
| 22 | She tried to stand up but Roman brought his other arm across her , making her his prisoner . |
| 23 | She denied that many non-smokers had to stand up while seats remained empty in smoking coaches , and added : ‘ If BR are that worried they should put on more carriages , and not blame smokers for overcrowding . ’ |
| 24 | He expected William Temple to back Henson and was grieved to find that his hero was weak because he refused to stand up and fight . |
| 25 | We really need more help from you good men to stand up and be counted ! |
| 26 | Others who have had the courage to stand up and be counted include Miss Doina Cornea , a former professor of French , now on hunger strike in the ethnic Hungarian city of Cluj ; Mr Gabriel Andreescu , a geophysicist in Bucharest ; and Mr Mirca Dinescu , a poet , also in Bucharest . |
| 27 | We had to work out a short monologue in the voice of a character , and then afterwards we sat around and were asked who would volunteer to stand up and read their piece . |
| 28 | Somebody ought to stand up and acknowledge what we have done because we are on the side of the angels . ’ |
| 29 | I ought to stand up and shout , My editor , right or wrong , and sod you . |
| 30 | If , as Stop Hinkley Expansion suspected , such fatalism was not shared by the general population of the West Country , then it was vital to get the silent majority to stand up and be counted . |