Sentence examples for standing someone from inspiring English sources

But before that door is standing someone who lets everybody in then you have a problem," he said last week.This week's protests have been about more than the Roma.

Wrong 'un rating: 5/10 The bloke from First Dates who didn't turn up for his date with Georgia It's bad enough standing someone up, let alone in a restaurant rigged with dozens of cameras.

The sadness at the heart of Long Lost Penpal is brought about by a deceit – a girl's penpal friend of years' standing, someone whose letters, "it would be fair to say, saved my life", turns out to be a middle-aged man called Luke, who offers, "I hope you do not hate me".

I can be standing someone in the supermarket and smell their kidney infection.

And watching the video of him getting shot by a "good guy" looked about as close to an execution as you could get without actually standing someone against a wall and firing your gun into their head.

On one of the few walls left standing, someone has spray-painted, "Now what?" Dressed in a dusty black T-shirt and matching grimy slacks, he steps over piles of concrete balanced atop the detritus of interrupted lives as if he's walking on steady ground.

Every seat in the open stands had someone standing on it and someone directly in front of it.

Maybe one person is going to be standing beside someone else in a room.

Suppose, for example, that someone says that all the royalty at a party are standing and someone utters 'The King of France is sitting in a chair'.

Be warned: if a party cannot stand with the country, the country will end up standing with someone else.

Ilk People standing near someone we dislike.