Example sentences of "sit [adv] for [art] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the hospital , sitting up for the first time in several days , he had watched the doctor anointing an old man who would have made a superb St Jerome : ‘ a thin , long , sinewy brown wrinkled body with such very distinct and expressive joints that it makes one melancholy not to be able to have him for a model . ’ |
| 2 | On my first visit , we sat together for a long time , talking of this and that . |
| 3 | They sat there for a long time , drinking their milk , gazing out at the grey drizzle while the Bārakotes told them stories about their home in the south , about the brightly coloured saris that the women wear , about the bazaars , and all the shops and stalls with beads and bangles , oranges , lemons , spices , chilli . |
| 4 | Sat there for a long time , her mind blank . |
| 5 | She sat there for a long time rocking backwards and forwards and giving herself up to howling , letting her gasps for breath shake her to pieces and leave her shuddering . |
| 6 | In a cold fury he stood and sat about for a long time within , twice changing from chair to chair . |