1.   A gene in a splurge-weed cell stands to gain by promoting the reproduction of its cell.

2.   Again Varney stood to full height.

3.   An elderly colonel with a steel gray crew cut stood to one side, ready to intervene if the questioning got difficult.

4.   Consumers, often preyed on during times of grief, stand to gain.

5.   Even the few pots of make-up on the blue-flowered dressing table seemed to be standing to attention.

6.   Farrar knew what he had got into now, and stood to attention.

7.   For a while we stand to one side, then sit down in the second row of benches.

8.   I opened the door to find Mrs Puri standing to attention outside.