Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [adv] sit " in BNC.
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| 1 | So before you decide that you 're not worth a hundred and fifty thousand pound do actually sit down and work it out . |
| 2 | She could not recognize , did not dare to recognize the grandiose ambitions whence her rage sprang ; it did not amuse her to sit in the Deux Magots , remembering that Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir had once sat there , nor did she wish to glimpse the exteriors of the houses of the famous dead . |
| 3 | It is a great thing , however , that all the parties have now sat down to negotiate and I wish the negotiations well . |
| 4 | Amana 's just sat on that chair with a so I did n't have anything to do Yes , I have a whole fire drill recorded on tape ! |
| 5 | Throughout the day , a steady stream of East Germans came along to sit in it , admire it , wonder at it , touch it — the latest Trabant 601 de-luxe , that is . |
| 6 | Presently they hung up , but Ruth went on sitting there , staring at the guest register , the typewriter , the neat stacks of envelopes and headed notepaper . |
| 7 | Young enthusiasts chat about SAT , AT , INSET , KS , PoS , and , above all , NC . |
| 8 | The little boy went back to sit on the stairs with his seven brothers . |
| 9 | Once it was dark , Jane went out to sit on a low wall where she could have a good view . |
| 10 | ’ Chen smiled then sat back , relaxing . |
| 11 | While specialist refereeing is standard practice in academic publishing , Edinburgh 's 15-member committee do not sit as specialists in their particular subjects , but discuss the reports from a broader perspective . |
| 12 | ’ And although the old folk do not sit around the fire any more telling stories as they once did — many of the yarns told by Mr Murray 's own father have found their way into his poetry — there are always the excitements and discoveries of the present by way of compensation . |
| 13 | An old rocking chair , where Jake had always sat , stood like a cliff . |
| 14 | I looked from left to right to find somewhere to sit and could see nowhere . |
| 15 | Also , we observed that males close to the breeding site seem deliberately to sit out on roads , where they have a clear view , and wait to jump on females as they pass . |
| 16 | They all said their emotional farewells , Sadat begged the Shah to return whenever he wished , the Shah and the Queen boarded the doors were closed and the Shah walked forward to sit beside Captain Moezzi in the cockpit . |
| 17 | She could almost imagine the door opening and Isabelle coming in to sit down at the dressing-table with its pretty antique tortoiseshell and silver toilet set , humming softly as she loved to do . |
| 18 | Hoving 's gushings are just as tiresome as his nastiness : his description of warming up the cantankerous Robert Lehman ( estranged from the museum over what the collector believed to be an anti-Semitic slight ) recalls similar scenes in Shirley Temple films , the main difference being that presumably Hoving did n't sit on Lehman 's lap . |
| 19 | Although Indians had been allowed to join the ICS since 1858 , only a handful had actually sat its fiercely competitive examinations , let alone passed . |
| 20 | She swallowed a sob of pure terror at the memory and Penry jumped up to sit beside her on the bed . |
| 21 | Indeed , because the oceans are heated from above , and warm water expands and is less dense than cold water , the warm water tends simply to sit on the surface , unless otherwise disturbed . |
| 22 | ‘ One finger one thumb one arm one leg , one nod of the head jump up sit down keep moving . |
| 23 | These provisions do not sit happily with the implied limitation for which Hambros Jersey contended . |
| 24 | Among the pieces of evidence advanced for the traditional view , for example , are the facts that until late in the reign of Suleyman the Muftis were considerably less well-paid than the kazaskers and that the Muftis did not sit in the divan whereas the kazaskers did . |
| 25 | The idea was that the police would wait until they had incontrovertible evidence before moving in for the arrest , but Branson and Draper had barely sat down with the Clarkes before some forty policemen swarmed through the door , knocking over tables and chairs and arresting the two brothers . |
| 26 | The name does n't sit very well on the tongue . |
| 27 | The Archbishop of Canterbury grabbed a seat in third class and the Chancellor of the Exchequer ended up sitting on Mrs Disraeli 's lap . |
| 28 | So what happened is that the literate women arranged their time so that every day they now have an hour set by to sit down with one of the illiterates and that 's how the literacy campaign is operating at the moment . |
| 29 | On Tuesday Jessie went to a restaurant , cats do n't sit at tables said Jessie and . |
| 30 | People do not sit down to write it , but those who need to communicate with people in the other parts of the country love to speak it . |