Example sentences of "i stood for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I pulled the door shut and almost ran to the front door and into Langdon Crescent garden , where I stood for five minutes breathing in the fresh air . |
| 2 | I stood for a long time in a telephone box just to keep out of the slicing rain . |
| 3 | I stood for a long while looking at Voting Right . |
| 4 | This done , I stood for a moment looking across at the broch islet . |
| 5 | I stood for a moment looking at the mattress on the bed where a knife had been used to open up the sides . |
| 6 | I stood for a long time , staring at the mirror . |
| 7 | At the previous election I stood for election to a United Kingdom Parliament , as did the hon. Gentleman . |
| 8 | Dad Tam : " You promise me you will never tell anybody " til " am deed that I stood for the man who made that statue . " |
| 9 | In nineteen sixty six I stood for election of the national organizer and was successful and joined the head office in Glasgow in May nineteen sixty six . |
| 10 | But our to avoid that situation I left and went to work with which kept me in the Edinburgh branch and within three or four weeks I stood for the local organizer and had not been successful . |
| 11 | When er I stood for the election of the national organizers for the East of Scotland and I was successful there and I left the Edinburgh branch in May nineteen sixty six to start work with the head office in nine May nineteen sixty six . |