Example sentences of "he sit [adv prt] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He made his way along the road until a colleague told him to sit down on the pavement . |
| 2 | They danced two dances together — or , rather , one and a half , for in the middle of the second , a waltz , he complained of feeling hot and giddy and she took him to sit out at the side . |
| 3 | You know , she made him sit down in the middle in front of everybody you see |
| 4 | The carer stands with her legs on either side of the patient 's knees , places her hands under the patient 's seat , pulls his body-weight forward and in one movement lifts his pelvis and pivots him so that he sits down onto the chair . |
| 5 | " Andrew is a very complex character as a man , but when he 's composing , he 's just like anybody else — he sits down at the piano looking for the tune , " explains Black . |
| 6 | if you like the germ of the idea of the poem is alive in his mind because he sits down at the page thinking I 'm going to write a poem . |
| 7 | Likeable , cordial , he sits down in a chair facing her husband and herself and proceeds to converse with them . |
| 8 | I gesture ( I imagine ) towards a chair on the other side of my desk and he sits down in an attitude which suggests that he intends to stay for rather more than a minute , and rather less than half an hour . |
| 9 | When his mind 's on fisticuffs he sits in on the training sessions there . |
| 10 | I saw him play on Sunday and to be perfectly honest had he sat down in the middle of the field I reckon he 'd have had a bigger influence on the game . |
| 11 | Fearon 's eyes opened fully and he sat up with a jerk , swore , rubbed his hand over his black curls and squinted at her . |
| 12 | He sat up on the bed , and she saw him wince . |
| 13 | He sat up on the bed , turning away from her , running a hand through his hair . |
| 14 | The fall seemed to bring Liam to his senses and he sat up on the road wondering where he was . |
| 15 | He sat up on the bench and pulled on the robe . |
| 16 | He sat up on the chair by the fire . |
| 17 | He sat up like a shot and his face was right over mine , blazing . |
| 18 | He sat back in the wicker chair , and their eyes joined . |
| 19 | He sat back in the armchair and watched the smoke drifting upwards from his pipe towards the gas lamp . |
| 20 | He sat back in the taxi as it drove away . |
| 21 | He sat back in the bed , pulling the sheets up around him . |
| 22 | He sat back in the motor vehicle as the Doctor noticeably increased the speed of the journey . |
| 23 | He sat back in the leather office chair and tapped his fingernails . |
| 24 | He sat back in the chair . |
| 25 | He sat back from the microscope for a moment , then looked again . |
| 26 | He sat down across the table from Gabriel , thinking what to say . |
| 27 | She watched covertly as he sat down with a drink on the opposite side of the room from her and then proceeded carefully to avoid her eye , by turning to talk to the person seated on the sofa beside him . |
| 28 | Then he sat down with a thump , his legs sticking straight out in front of him . |
| 29 | He sat down with a crash and Ingram got shakily to his feet . |
| 30 | He sat down with a sigh , rubbing one hand over his eyes . |