Stood in sentence

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As I stood there in the doorway of my apartment, I wanted to cry.

She pawed at the grave, she brayed in distress, and there she stood.

I felt this strongly when I went to Berlin and I stood at the Holocaust Memorial.

He was giving us a nice clear signal as he stood up.

My grandpa stood up to the officials, because he wanted a grandson to carry on the family name.

Just ten years ago I stood on the ice at the North Pole.

So, in the opening days of 2009, a visionary president stood on the steps of the U.S. Capitol and said, "We cannot help but believe that the old hatreds shall someday pass, that the lines of tribe shall soon dissolve, that, as the world grows smaller, our common humanity shall reveal itself."

And one day, he stood on a land mine left over from the war with the United States, and he got his leg blown off.

This acting student stood up after 30 seconds, and said, "I solved everything.

Now, this is important, because remember, when the moment the student stood up, it made it clear to everybody that they could get away with cheating, because the experimenter said, "You've finished everything.

After four hours of this, I stood up, and I took this team apart.

I do, because at least there you stood a chance.

But for all their engineering knowledge, they knew far less about the ground they stood on.

We made over a hundred of those bags that day, and people indeed stood in line to receive one.

And if you're squirming or you're laughing or you stood up, or you're beginning to stand, you're speaking the language that I endearingly call "the language of growing up a fat kid."

For any of you that stood up, you know very well that I'm speaking the language of watching a loved one battle cancer.

And for anybody that stood up, you speak the language that I like to call "the language of disconnection."

I got out of the car, and I stood up, and it was a coal-mining town.

A month ago today I stood there: 90 degrees south, the top of the bottom of the world, the Geographic South Pole.

And I stood there beside two very good friends of mine, Richard Weber and Kevin Vallely.

Death stood motionless, his inscrutable face fixed on the sputtering flame— until all that was left of the doctor was a wisp of smoke.

Today, Enheduanna’s legacy still exists, on clay tablets that have stood the test of time.

Without a few people who stood by me, I wouldn't be on this stage right now.

And I watched her walk up on stage in her red short dress and high heels, and she stood there and said, "My name is Marsha.

And as we walked through the streets, the people of Juarez, who normally don't even come into the streets, because the streets are so dangerous, literally stood there and wept, to see that other people from the world had showed up for that particular community.

Two years ago, I stood on the TED stage in Arusha, Tanzania.

Rabbi Hillel, the older contemporary of Jesus, who, when asked by a pagan to sum up the whole of Jewish teaching while he stood on one leg, said, "That which is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbor.

And I stood there.

In fact, so woeful was our telephone service that a Member of Parliament stood up in 1984 and complained about this.

Well, the truth is the 20th century, 300 years from now, is not going to be remembered for its wars or its technological innovations, but rather as the era in which we stood by and either actively endorsed or passively accepted the massive destruction of both biological and cultural diversity on the planet.

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