Sentence examples for imagined it stood from inspiring English sources

Who can forget the hilarious spectacle of erstwhile TalkSport shock jock Jon Gaunt – an implacable enemy of the Act and all he imagined it stood for – falling back on it for his legal defence after being sacked from the station for calling some councillor a Nazi.

Looking at, and reading, the Victorians, you might conclude that they lived in a time that, like our own – as we imagine it – stood poised on the brink of catastrophe.

With one change, it has stood just as he imagined it during his imprisonment.

Rap has always had a little allegorical thing for the idea of the 'beat lab', but the way Kanye carps about innovation, it's easy enough to imagine him stood over a bunsen burner in his stupid slatted glasses, melting down Flava Flav's clocks into a sticky essence of cool, sucking Cristal up through pipettes, doing drive-bys on crash test dummies.

"The Satanic Verses" was burned in the Yorkshire cities of Bolton & Bradford by Muslim workers trying to believe that its imagined heresies stood, somehow, for the real humiliations of an immigrant lifetime.

She imagined they stood around asking one another: Why isn't this woman behaving like a grieving mother is supposed to?

Or at least that's what I imagined as I stood at the party, holding my bottle of water and listening to the expectant hubbub of people speculating as to whether Timberlake might show up after all.

You might imagine you stood outside a large magnificent library.

Down in the valley, by the Torna stream, it is hard to imagine that houses stood here, less than three months ago.

We should imagine that we stood also at Amphipolis, and assumed the awkwardness of moderation.

So you can only imagine that Linklater stood back to let his two leads reveal – or caricature – themselves as they wished.