Example sentences of "sit [conj] [verb] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In these days of digital technology and modular electronics , it 's hard to know where to turn when your blue-speaker AC30 begins to issue smoke , your Copicat starts munching recording tape or your beloved Marshall JTM45 just sits and coughs in the corner . |
| 2 | You put yourself into cold storage for two years as far as any kind of political practice goes and just sit and think — and do n't forget you 'll get paid £5000 a year to sit and think about the purity of the struggle we 're all fighting back here . ’ |
| 3 | When it got dark he looked for somewhere else to sit and went to the back of the aircraft by way of the communication tunnel , but quickly got bored . |
| 4 | And when we were getting people from outside coming there and some of them quite militant they were going to sit and lay across the road . |
| 5 | Mrs Mantini did not like Rachaela to sit and read in the shop . |
| 6 | On warm days those of the hospital 's old people who were still mobile used to sit and chatter under the tree in front of the building , watching the passers-by . |
| 7 | ‘ Well , ’ he thought , ‘ I 'll just have to sit and wait for the mist to clear . ’ |
| 8 | As he pulled on the oars — he could not bear simply to sit and wait for the bell to ring — John was again the boy who had set out to be the man he never became . |
| 9 | We sit and concentrate on the crossword , we do n't kind of , unless we get it done quick , which is is n't very often . |
| 10 | You and Larry sit and eat at the table . |
| 11 | children sit and sing in the book corner ; |
| 12 | I 'm telling ya , I 've just had it up to there honest I told Dave this morning , he says well he says I ca n't , he , you 're not losing anything , going and sitting and listening to the man |
| 13 | With its formal rose garden , large lawns and a wooded area with a pigeon house and herbaceous borders , it is altogether an ideal place for just sitting and listening to the birdsong . |
| 14 | It was impossible to be euphemistic about the basic facts of nature when one lived on a stud farm , Harry told himself as he watched Cora-Beth rise from the swing seat where they were sitting and walk across the veranda into the house to fetch a fresh jug of lemonade . |
| 15 | The two of them stayed sitting and talking in the kitchen for an hour or so longer , and then , at about six o'clock , Matilda said goodnight and set out to walk home to her parent 's house , which was about an eight-minute journey away . |
| 16 | Sitting and relaxing in the sun is one of the great benefits of owning a garden . |
| 17 | It limits the number of holders of ministerial office who may sit and vote in the House of Commons to 95 and debars , amongst others , civil servants , judges , members of the police and armed forces from sitting . |
| 18 | Me father used to sit at one side of the fireplace and me aunt at the other one , and they would sit and talk about the Bible . |
| 19 | But at the end of the second day of this Test showdown , Miandad was the one who could sit and chuckle in the dressing room , whatever the sporting public think of him . |
| 20 | I had gone too far and experienced too much , I needed to slow down , to get back to the small things , the practical things , to measuring and cutting and fixing , and it was with relief that I noticed that daylight had begun to invade the room , I kept quite still , I held the glass firmly in my gaze , gradually the elements already worked on began to emerge , some more clearly than others , some in outline only and some only when they impeded the free flow of light through the glass , until the sun came up and was reflected back from the windows of the house opposite and I could sit and look at the glass and think back through the work and the mistakes and the few successes , and sense again with that sickening feeling in the pit of the stomach that the whole of the right hand side of the lower panel was still a mess , nothing there had been resolved , but then I drew back from that , though it kept trying to pull me back to itself , and concentrated on what was beginning to work , on the left hand areas both top and bottom and on the elegance of the frame and the joy of seeing the bare walls and the wainscoting appear through the empty areas , and as I moved round so different parts of the room appeared and the relation of the surface of the glass to what lay behind changed , precision and fluidity , precision and fluidity , he wrote , choice and chance , not choice alone and chance alone but the two together , that is why delay , not stoppage and not flow but delay , delay in glass , he wrote , as when the plane is late and you should have been gone , have already arrived perhaps , but you are still there , or the sprinter beats the gun and the whole field is called back , the race could have been over but it has not yet started . |
| 21 | The enthusiastic among us could sit with out scorebooks , others could sit and listen to the expert commenting of two gentlemen sadly no longer with us , John Arlott and Jim Laker . |
| 22 | ‘ The men can sit and camp in the lounge and we girls will slave over a hot stove . |
| 23 | There 's a great atmosphere at the open-air bar restaurant at the Trabukos where you can sit and relax in the heat of the afternoon sun . |
| 24 | They did n't sit but stood around the table . |
| 25 | Then , huddling deep into the eiderdown , she sat and waited for the dawn . |
| 26 | I left George 's office and went two doors along to my roomette to dig my telescopic-lens binoculars-camera out of Tommy 's holdall , and I sat and waited by the window for gaunt-face 's return . |
| 27 | He stuck the candle upright in a socket then sat and gazed at the flame , letting it mesmerize him into memory . |
| 28 | She sat and listened in the back pew . |
| 29 | In dark glasses , white dress , gold chain , she sat and looked at the sky . |
| 30 | She sat and glared through the windscreen , expecting any minute to see him coming back , but there was no sign of him . |