Example sentences of "stand up [conj] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He reaches into his bag , brings out a sandwich , then stands up and inspects it is the projector beam to see what it contains . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm not frightened of anything ! ’ she protested icily , suppressing a strong urge to stand up and thump him , willing her pulses to slow . |
| 3 | They were uncertain of her , she could feel it as surely as if they 'd appointed a spokesman to stand up and tell her so . |
| 4 | I , I , I 'd would teach them to stand up and tell them the truth , there do n't appear to be too many of them about these days |
| 5 | Now , though , she was sitting in the dressing-room , not even sure if she could persuade her legs to stand up and carry her to the stage . |
| 6 | In the process it 's picked up HaL Computer Systems Inc , the most famous of the no-product-yet companies , to stand up and say it was doing its own Version 9 implementation , claiming to be ‘ well under way . ’ |
| 7 | Staying seated while he prowls around makes me uneasy , so I stand up and join him at the window . |
| 8 | If the candidate seems settled in for the day stand up and help him/her with their coat , or begin to walk towards the door . |
| 9 | Now this is where you go to the branch , and the branch management team stand up and bring you up to date with everything that 's happening in the company with product changes , legislation changes , yes , some of it 's boring , but it 's information you 've got to have . |
| 10 | ‘ Stand up and face me , Madeleine . |
| 11 | You rally , you stand up and face it . |
| 12 | get dizzy going all the way round , but make sure you do , you know , stand up and do it , and then it 'll go in . |
| 13 | So the great debate has taken place — and its overwhelming conclusion is that ‘ the traditional ethos of British climbing ’ ( stand up and define it anyone bold enough to try ) ‘ is being endangered by sport climbing . ’ |
| 14 | affairs and stand up and recite them |
| 15 | ‘ Stand up and recite it . ’ |
| 16 | Have you , have you ever seen the expression on a man 's face when he takes the out , do a crap , stand up and find it 's not there ? |
| 17 | I would prefer not to have my guy stand up and say I may have been involved in an assassination . ’ |
| 18 | You see this is the thing that worries me because , you know , when I stand up and say I like what John Dreyfus did and I think his looks very good and I maintain the traditions of the Oxford University Press , I can suddenly feel that I 'm being typecast as being in the English tradition of typography as a revered art and the Morrisonian thing and the whole thing separate from , you know , a culture within a culture and a separate thing . |
| 19 | Moustaine made me stand up and slapped me across the eyes with his leather gloves . |
| 20 | We ca n't stand up and lecture them on self-reliance and personal responsibility and then wade in and take over as soon as they show signs of doing what we want . |
| 21 | How many times shall I stand up and lecture them about Highfield , I do n't know . |
| 22 | NOBODY , but nobody , can stand up and say they gave Mike Tyson a fight twice … and survived . |
| 23 | But most , you should really stand up and play it with fairly , play together . |
| 24 | Surely somebody would stand up and let her sit down ? |
| 25 | ‘ For goodness ’ sakes , hurry up , ’ she exclaimed , standing up and folding her stole around her . |
| 26 | The most consistently bearish — well he is a Brit — Stephen Smith of PaineWebber , says that until recently , saying you did n't like IBM was ‘ like standing up and saying I do n't like apple pie . ’ |
| 27 | We sat and drank our tea in silence then Dad stood up and told me to tell Mum , when she returned , that he 'd gone to have one last talk to the relief officer . |
| 28 | She stood up and let it unroll before her to shout its hideous message for itself . |
| 29 | She stood up and kissed him lightly on the lips . |
| 30 | She wore a black dress reaching to just above her knees , suspended from her shoulders by straps no thicker than shoe laces ; black stockings , encasing surprisingly slim legs , and very high-heeled red shoes that elevated her an inch or so above Morse as he stood up and offered her his stool . |