Example sentences of "sit [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Additionally , bargaining is a closed , private activity which sits uneasily astride the current emphasis on open government and public participation . |
| 2 | But the traditions and conventions of scepticism and proper doubt sit uneasily with the current politics of commitment and conviction , whether of the left or the right . |
| 3 | The businessmen brought in to run the Councils have been frustrated by the tight operating and financial practices imposed by the Department of Employment Such practices sit uneasily alongside the entrepreneurial freedom that business leaders are used to ( see Guardian , 23 March 1990 ) . |
| 4 | However , unless I want junk food from one of the many establishments purveying it in this thoroughly commercialised station , all I have available to sit on in the huge concourse is a grubby metal flip-up slat a few inches wide . |
| 5 | Just over two million of our pupils sit down to a knife-and-fork meal at midday . |
| 6 | It occurred to her that most people , her former self included , would not walk away from an attack by a homicidal transvestite and sit down to a healthy breakfast . |
| 7 | On Saturday nights around 30 people sit down to a four-course SE Asian banquet . |
| 8 | Every Sunday the family get up early for an enormous American breakfast — pancakes , ham , waffles with maple syrup , and then later on in the afternoon they all sit down to an English roast . |
| 9 | When you sit down for a wee while . |
| 10 | Again , change hands , push the tiller to where you were sitting , watch for the boom , as it swings across , straighten up and sit down on the new side . |
| 11 | Just wait until the last day , when you come , you sit down on the fucking stool and each leg goes like that ! |
| 12 | Basically , I just sit down with a little Pignose amp and a tape recorder and play all night . ’ |
| 13 | Thank you for your interest , comrade , sit down in the listening corner and I shall begin . |
| 14 | Over supper we sit down in the low evening sun and watch the hills change from one blue to another , to mauve , to grey , to black . |
| 15 | I sit down in the grey plastic chair in the featureless room with McDunn and a man from the Welsh squad ; a big blond brindle guy in a tight grey suit ; he has a rugby player 's neck and steely eyes and huge hands that are clasped on the table , lying there like a mace of flesh and bone . |
| 16 | ‘ I think the Border clubs would have to sit down as a composite group and work out a new sevens structure . ’ |
| 17 | When he was able to sit down for a brief breather , he received a telephone call from control saying that some twenty young bullocks had got loose on the railway line heading in his direction and would he keep a look out , with the thought that trains and cattle do not mix . |
| 18 | Is there a certain time when you always love to sit down with a relaxing drink and something to eat ? |
| 19 | Those who have worked with him during the time that he has been in his present post have come to admire the hard work , courage and assiduity with which he has pursued the object of bringing the parties within the island of Ireland to sit down with the British Government and resolve their differences . |
| 20 | Jane Pargeter said , nodding towards her open drinks cabinet , even before Blanche and Dexter had time to sit down on the black leather armchairs in her sitting-room . |
| 21 | She was glad to get home , to wash the grit from the paths off her feet , to sit down in the cool unglaring indoors . |
| 22 | He slung his cloak of feathers over the staff and Scathach helped him to sit down in the slight shelter that this garment offered . |
| 23 | She sits down in a quiet room , provided at public expense , and begins to lecture a man who is shortly to be found dying by the dustbins . |
| 24 | They sit together in a non-smoking section . |
| 25 | We sit together in the wooden booth . |
| 26 | However , with regard to the follow-up of arrests , one of the research team was able to sit in on a Juvenile Case Referral Panel , which recommended whether juveniles should be cautioned , and another member made observations in the magistrates ' courts . |
| 27 | At eleven o'clock the following morning , Buzz sat down on the blue chair by Elinor 's bedroom window , pulled the kitchen timer from the pocket of her navy cotton dress , and set it to twenty minutes : the mechanism began to tick in an irritating way . |
| 28 | I have just sat down on the wet grass when everyone around me starts to move swiftly in the direction of the wooded area just visible through the mist and gloom . |
| 29 | They had sat together on the other scaffolding and watched the Graces dance . |
| 30 | Bertha had sat back with the satisfied air of having played a trump card , until suddenly her lip had quivered as tears filled her eyes . |