Example sentences of "to stand [adv prt] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Never use wicker chairs to stand on for odd jobs around the house . |
| 2 | Kitchen floors need to be tough enough to withstand all sorts of spills , grease and damp , comfortable enough to stand on for long periods , and handsome to look at . |
| 3 | We are able to stand down for a while in the evening to get some sleep , write letters , play darts or watch TV . |
| 4 | FORMER Liberal leader Sir David Steel yesterday urged Labour to stand down for the Liberal-Democrats in seats they can not win at the next Election . |
| 5 | She moved to Tonight , The Nine O'Clock News and The Six O'Clock News before leaving current affairs to stand in for Wogan . |
| 6 | Or , from the Viz diary of a made-up Hollywood stunt man : ‘ I was asked to stand in for Mel Gibson in Lethal Weapon II , but I turned it down 'cos Patsy Kensit 's got tits like fried eggs . ’ |
| 7 | And already in similiar circumstances in France last summer he had been presented with the kind of opportunity to prove himself that many young pianists must dream of in vain : he was called on , again at very short notice , to stand in for the even more illustrious Sviatoslav Richter at Richter 's own festival at the Grange Meslay near Tours . |
| 8 | Many schools have team members in reserve so that a quota can always be mustered to stand in for any bona fide team member whose parents can not afford the trip . |
| 9 | And by the way , I have an appointment in the city around eleven , so I may not be back to stand in for the dinner breaks . |
| 10 | In 1952 it adopted the practice of permitting deputies to stand in for the ministers : the deputies soon became permanent features , attending to all business except that deemed to be symbolically important . |
| 11 | It is not surprising then that the earliest women to enter politics did so as ‘ surrogate ’ males , to stand in for husbands or fathers ( see the case of Nancy , Lady Astor ) or that no ‘ monstrous regiment ’ of women was waiting to overwhelm men in the battle for parliamentary seats . |
| 12 | If the Ketterings had wanted another family to stand in for them , it could only be for recognition by someone they wished to avoid or who might be a danger to them . |
| 13 | But you 've got to practice with me to get the movements right so I 'm to stand in for the swan . ’ |
| 14 | ( They disport themselves to accommodate the next piece of mime , which consists of the PLAYER himself exhibiting an excitable anguish ( choreographed , stylized ) leading to an impassioned scene with the QUEEN ( cf. " The Closet Scene " , Shakespeare Act III , scene iv ) and a very stylized reconstruction of a POLONIUS figure being stabbed behind the arras ( the murdered KING to stand in for POLONIUS ) while the PLAYER himself continues his breathless commentary for the benefit of ROS and GUIL . ) |
| 15 | The trustee is to chair meetings of the committee , but he may nominate someone else to stand in for him and that person must either be an employee of his experienced in insolvency matters or another qualified insolvency practitioner ( r 6.154 ) . |
| 16 | It might also be argued that it functions as metonymy , in which some element closely associated with the prime function of the whole comes to stand in for it . |
| 17 | It suggests to me a little remarked aspect of dress and fashion : the ability of well chosen , beautiful garments to stand in for the body . |
| 18 | ‘ Please tell her I 'm sorry she 's ill — but that I 'm pleased to be able to stand in for her . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I 'll have got my bearings by tomorrow , so you wo n't need to stand in for me , ’ she said , ‘ but tonight , I do n't mind admitting , I 'll be glad to catch up on some beauty sleep . |
| 20 | ‘ They have always said they will care for Jennifer completely , and until now they 've only allowed me to stand in for them , but it 's taking its toll . |
| 21 | It started when a man working in the sorting office was suspended for refusing to stand in for a colleague who 'd gone sick . |
| 22 | ‘ But my chief at Liverpool CID would not let me take part , because he was away on holiday himself at the time , and required me to stand in for him . |
| 23 | It is the best way to serve the people we want to stand up for . |
| 24 | Mr Grosz was the only senior politician yesterday with the courage to stand up for Communism in front of a hostile audience . |
| 25 | Paul Twyman , of North Thanet said : ‘ The BMA are a trade union and they are entitled to stand up for their members ’ interests , but they are not entitled to abuse their professional position by deliberately scaremongering and frightening elderly patients . ’ |
| 26 | Reading right-wing papers also made people more inclined to believe the Conservative Party had convincing policies and was likely to keep its promises , that Kinnock was neither decisive , nor trustworthy , nor a good leader of a team , and especially that he could not be relied upon to stand up for British interests against the USSR . |
| 27 | The passion she had tried to feel for feminism was not enough , it did not give her enough strength to stand up for herself against the demands of these two women who wanted her , needed her and demanded her . |
| 28 | Where the unions fail in their duties to black workers they must be challenged to stand up for their rights . |
| 29 | Calling on Japan to stand up for itself when dealing with America , the book was a huge success , selling more than 1m copies . |
| 30 | Over the past decade Muslims have learnt to stand up for themselves . |