Example sentences of "sit [adv] [prep] a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Come and sit down for a minute while the lasagne finishes cooking . ’ |
| 2 | Right , just sit down for a minute and let's , Michael read his first . |
| 3 | You either sit down for a meal or get ready for bed and the phone goes . ’ |
| 4 | Sit down with a pen and paper and make a list of the things you have wanted to do in the past few years . |
| 5 | Well done , excellent , erm , as you can see , in some ways quite a complex er , issue , and it 's one of those things really , I think to fully understand this , you got to sit down with a pencil and paper and work it through yourself . |
| 6 | A girl sits down with a man and he says , ‘ I 'm very romantic ’ — that 's advertising . |
| 7 | A girl sits down with a man and he says , ‘ What you need is a good romance and it so happens I 'm very romantic ’ — that 's marketing . |
| 8 | A girl sits down with a man and she says , ‘ I hear you 're very romantic , please take me to dinner ’ — that 's Public Relations ! |
| 9 | It was quite pointless having a runner who saw the whole thing as a social outing and had once even sat down in a kitchen and said she 'd just rest for a minute . |
| 10 | I find I can easily put things into perspective , see both sides of an issue , if I just sit around for a while and I probably do that for half an hour a day . |
| 11 | If he would like to sit there for a while and learn something , I will then cheerfully give way to him . |
| 12 | You 'll have to sit there with a book and you can |
| 13 | A form arrived with the instruction ‘ State exactly how loss occurred ’ , and I wrote ‘ Lord Haig 's dog Wasp and I were sitting together on a sofa when I discovered he was eating my sweater ’ with the gravest doubts that I would be believed . |
| 14 | Sitting together on a settee as they faced hostile questioning , Bill Clinton seemed at first to be struggling as he was tackled over the Flowers affair . |
| 15 | I 'm just sitting down with a drink and the news before dinner . |
| 16 | It 's really good for sitting down with a meal and just forgetting about work . |
| 17 | But if she did I think she will pass out on her record because perhaps , even more delightful than someone who , you know , sitting down to an exam and , and doing reasonably well on it . |
| 18 | She looks real comfy there and I think about sitting down for a bit and watching telly , but I ai n't got nothing to sit on so I just carry on standing up . |
| 19 | You could no longer do the things I 'd taken for granted , like making a cup of tea and sitting down for a gossip when I came in from college . |
| 20 | But in any case I 'm not complaining if it 's back to the days of sitting downstairs with a brandy and soda while midwives rush about boiling water and collecting towels . |
| 21 | He ordered black beer and fig liquor , bread , pork and persea fruit , sitting outside under an awning and looking at the boats . |
| 22 | It is hard sometimes to look at an old person sitting passively in a chair and imagine them running around , bringing up babies , managing an office , driving a lorry , getting into trouble with the law , being a pillar of the local community , fighting a war . |
| 23 | And Ben like when we were sort of there Ben sort of we 'd been sitting around for a while and he said it 's very embarrassing to have to ask this but you 're staying the night and stuff erm are you two a couple or are you just friends so no , just friends but it 's alright , if you do n't have any spare rooms we 'll be perfectly happy to sleep together , do n't worry . |
| 24 | I think that the idea of erm you know , rushing in to a disaster , taking the aeroplane out , and , and seeing this enormous distress around one and sitting there with a notebook and a pencil is , is unacceptable and indeed we do n't do that at all . |
| 25 | and it goes through their , for the rest of their twenties , the rest of their thirties and most of their forties and then suddenly bang maybe something ghastly seems to be happening which they are absolutely unaware of , you know , they do n't know why they are crying or , or er unable to cope with whatever they ca n't cope with and that 's it , that 's them off and they start worrying about er osteoporosis and you know an enormous number of , of now medically defined problems of the menopause , and they may start going on to all sorts of things like hormone replacement therapy or even primrose oil or whatever the hell and they 're sitting there at an age when they are fairly loaded up with experience and maturity and all the rest of it and they do n't know what they are doing . |
| 26 | She meant it was n't any good just talking , sitting there beneath a cross that hung on a wall . |
| 27 | The team were sitting round in a semi-circle when she was introduced to them — although no one gave her a chair , or at least one with her name on it . |
| 28 | There she was , sitting forlornly in a corner and , unlike all the other dogs , making no noise , just gazing at the floor in a philosophical way . |
| 29 | Generally though , prior to laying an egg , the female cuckoo will watch the intended host 's nest for several hours , sitting quietly in a tree or bush , waiting for her opportunity . |
| 30 | Take your resting pulse rate by first sitting quietly in a chair and breathing normally . |