Example sentences of "sit [adv prt] and [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You sit down and wrap this towel round your neck . ’ |
| 2 | Sit down and sign that cheque , ’ he commanded , ‘ or you 'll be bloody sorry . ’ |
| 3 | Probably the best advice is to sit down and list all income as well as all expenditure — including variables like possible car maintenance bills , treats , clothes , savings for holidays — and then honestly look at what is left . |
| 4 | So everything 's there , printing presses repro separation houses , sheet film , computer set up and Apple Macs and everything is there , it 's actually a very impressive set up erm , the Queen Margaret 's course , I 'm slightly dubious about I once had a colleague I 'm going back a decade who had been employed on the basis of doing the communications course at Queen Margaret I think , and it turned out that it was n't communications as we understood it , it was n't our sort of communications P R newspapers and things like that , it was communications on a much broader , broader front so it did n't actually fit in to the world of P R and what happened was I then had to sit down and train this woman from scratch and get rid of a lot of the preconceived notions that she had come in with she had brought from Queen Margaret 's College . |
| 5 | He added : ‘ People from all over the country , people we have never heard of , have been good enough to sit down and write lengthy letters , to send flowers at great expense to a boy , just saying Tim Parry , Warrington , Cheshire , and it is getting to the house . |
| 6 | ‘ The game now is too big to run your own administration in an amateur way , sit back and think big companies are going to come to us ’ . |
| 7 | But , instead of being able to sit back and enjoy this baby , she has also to look after the other children who may only just have left the baby stage themselves . |
| 8 | The young man pulled forward the chair he had been sitting on and lifted one leg up on it . |
| 9 | Often , for instance , after the baby has been put to sleep the mother will sit down and eat another meal . |
| 10 | But you do have to still sit down and get that information . |
| 11 | also the people on the ground I mean er surely it would n't do any harm to actually sit down and put some veiws forward from the whole department |
| 12 | Born in Huddersfield , Mike , 40 , spent the early part of his career wandering between journalism and PR , always promising himself one day he would sit down and write that book . |
| 13 | But you can actually sit down and write several poems to order ? |
| 14 | And quite quite honestly our top earners are top earners because they wo n't sit back and do one advertising deal a day and say , Hey are n't I clever . |
| 15 | The only reason er top earners are top earners in our company is they do n't sit back and take one deal a day |
| 16 | Speaking at the launch of the coalition , the Chairman , Professor John Moxham , said : ‘ We doctors can no longer just sit by and watch this tragedy , under the guise of acceptable promotion … |
| 17 | I had no idea there was a class distinction , having lived in a sort of world of my own , and when I went to meet his parents in his house in Bromley , I 'd never been to such a small , little house where all the chairs had those things on the back where you catch the Brylcreem and you sat down and had high tea . |
| 18 | If we go back about two years , a little bit more than two years now , we sat down and considered those areas which were most important to us in developing a new accounting package . |
| 19 | Edward sat down and read these words : |
| 20 | He sat up and drank some water . |
| 21 | Terry sat up and showed great interest . |