Example sentences of "[modal v] [adv] just sit [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You must n't just sit there and do it love . |
| 2 | He could n't just sit here and do nothing . |
| 3 | But she could n't just sit there and let him criticise her choice of friends . |
| 4 | She would not just sit there and let him do this to her ! |
| 5 | But it was true , what Jim said , in business you ca n't stand still , you go up or you go down , you ca n't just sit comfortably in your own 1972 executive four-bedroomed plate-glass-windowed centrally heated wall-to-wall-carpeted gadget-equipped house , with your Rover and your wife 's Mini in the two-car garage , and your pot plants in your loggia , and your electric lawn mower in the shed : you ca n't sit still and enjoy it , you ca n't call it a day and call a halt when you own it all and do n't owe anyone a penny , you have to go on and on , relentlessly onwards , juggling with larger and larger sums , owing more , paying out more , until finally perhaps the whole thing comes tumbling round your head like a pack of cards . |
| 6 | You ca n't just sit here . ’ |
| 7 | But I ca n't just sit here and watch him . |
| 8 | " We ca n't just sit here , Gordon . " |
| 9 | ‘ I ca n't just sit here stranded . ’ |
| 10 | You ca n't just sit there and munch their biscuits without a single bloody word ! |
| 11 | They ca n't just sit there and saying nothing . |
| 12 | it wo n't just sit there |
| 13 | we take some of them part bake breads and some cheese and biscuits and a great big packet of cheese and , and you just you know , you can either just sit there , but the food , once you get down the food is so cheap you do n't want nothing else in the heat . |