stand
verb (used without object)
(of a person) to be in an upright position on the feet.
Used to describe a continuous action that will progress up until a designated point of completion in the future.
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"You will have been standing chattering there so long, that there will not have been much work done."
From L'Arrabiata and Other Tales by Paul Heyse