Example sentences of "could sit " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I would n't be able to stretch out , but at least I could sit there . |
| 3 | The shop had a little bar-type area at the back where people could sit . |
| 4 | ‘ This is a castle , not a cottage , we could sit here in safety for a year . ’ |
| 5 | When it mattered , Leonard was a learner ; he could sit at a man 's feet and absorb completely . |
| 6 | ‘ Do you think you could sit down ? |
| 7 | I 'd thank them and I 'd be home in five minutes and I could sit in Peter 's room looking at his stuff and chatting with him . |
| 8 | I thought it was Annie , and we 'd go home together and see Marie and they 'd both be proud of me and we could sit in front of the Christmas tree together and guess what the wrapped up presents were , and eat mince pies and all that . |
| 9 | I wish I could sit at the table and help cut up Annie 's food like I used to , and we 'd have crackers and we 'd wear those paper hats and have them little prezzies from inside the crackers . |
| 10 | One could sit in front of the fire , but there the lighting was difficult and it was too scorchingly hot . ) |
| 11 | I was obliged to assist him to the easy chair towards the window , so that he could sit upright , for his coughing was agonising at times . |
| 12 | She could sit in the armchairs : Marie had seen her . |
| 13 | She felt she had created a little peaceful corner where she could sit and feel close to both her late mother and her cat . |
| 14 | It was so crowded they had to unlace the side-flaps of the enormous tent and raise them up so that people could sit outside the tent , down the sides , and though we could n't see him very well , we heard him . |
| 15 | We could sit in a meeting in the Sit(uation) Room and be discussing these other activities , and fall into almost a kind of , you know , warp in which you would n't know whether you were talking — I mean , the use of shorthand and so forth in the discussions you could n't tell whether we 'd suddenly slipped into this question of selling arms to get them back this way or whether we were still discussing the other thing . |
| 16 | She could sit for hours in the sun these days , content to watch Pilade play , doing nothing whatsoever . |
| 17 | At once , the waiters began to reorganise the tables so that as many as possible could sit under the parasols and to hurry away the unused cushions and linen so as not to let them be soaked . |
| 18 | There were rivers he visited as a child where he could sit and watch water voles every day . |
| 19 | The free wine really did put everyone in the right mood for the rest of the evening when you could sit back and be entertained or dance to the disco music outside on the terrace . |
| 20 | And perhaps , though he doubted she 'd agree , they could sit once more in the back seats for old times ' sake . |
| 21 | We could sit on those . ’ |
| 22 | The first of the great wheels were tall , and consideration has to be made for the height of the canopy , but there were many adaptations of the walking wheel and the more familiar smaller wheel , at which the spinner sat , soon followed , and on a small gallery like the one at Hodge Hill , the mistress of the house could sit with her tiny flax wheel . |
| 23 | She was unable to stand up , but could sit in a chair without losing her balance . |
| 24 | I say unfortunate laird , but of course it would have been the unfortunate estate workers who would have hauled the pick-axes up the hill and toiled away for weeks , just so that somebody with a crown could sit on a pony that did n't stumble on his way up a mountain to shoot something . |
| 25 | There she could sit at one of the outdoor cafés and read her letter undisturbed while sipping a cool drink of lemon or perhaps iced tea . |
| 26 | But if we were gods , and immortal , and could sit ourselves comfortably to watch the years slide by , with a magnetic compass conveniently to hand next to the ambrosia and nectar , we 'd see something extraordinarily interesting . |
| 27 | This means you could sit at your workstation and ‘ talk ’ to a computer on the other side of the world . |
| 28 | He began to sleep through the night , and became much less active — for the first time he could sit down and watch a television programme through to the end . |
| 29 | Corbett stayed in the castle the rest of the day , wandering about , looking for any place he could sit and quietly meditate on all he knew . |
| 30 | There 'd be breezes by the river — I could sit and think , read my dreams . |