Example sentences of "[pron] sit [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Extract 1 : The ghost One day me met a witch Jamaica [ inaudible ] me ( gor ra ) mother — me saw her dere , me sit down an she tell me all the story alrigh% ? |
| 2 | So I have to I I sit there the week before I get the you know before I get the money , I sit there and work it all out . |
| 3 | Somehow I sat up a bit . |
| 4 | As I sat down the man on my left gave me a brief nod . |
| 5 | I sat there a long time , bored , with a cold bottom , and I was about to open the pub door to tell him I was going home when I saw the organ grinder trundling his barrel-organ down the street . |
| 6 | ‘ I sat back a little bit more than usual and made sure things were organised . |
| 7 | Mann tries to combine the desperation of their plight with a more lyrical look at Indian respect for struggle and death , all of which sits together a smidgeon uneasily until the final reel . |
| 8 | And so if you sit just a little bit further forward , that 's fine . |
| 9 | But if you sit here a moment , I will comb out your hair , and you may keep the comb . |
| 10 | ALL RYE LIES BEFORE YOU as you sit round a grand , authentic scale model of this ancient town . |
| 11 | She sits on a little wooden bench , and seems to be engaged in animated conversation with the empty space beside her . |
| 12 | They called the group the Kolbitar ( coal-biters ) , an Icelandic kenning which means those who sit around a fire . |
| 13 | Mr Masoud was the most successful guerrilla commander against the Soviet army and loathes Mr Hikmatyar , who sat out the war on the other side of the Pakistani border . |
| 14 | She sat up a little straighter and resolved to regard her host with more of an open mind . |
| 15 | come in that day and she sat up the table with the boys and had a dish of |
| 16 | As she sat over a pot of tea in a quiet café she reminded herself that it was really expecting too much to find a flat as quickly as she had landed a job . |
| 17 | I was the first visitor that she had had since she was transferred from ‘ Grisly ’ Risley Remand Centre in Cheshire , where she sat out the murder and fraud trials . |
| 18 | She sat back a little more relaxed in her seat . |
| 19 | So we sit around the TV and watch John Lee on the screen , having this great party outside this very house , with his grand-kids and his ladyfriends . |
| 20 | Most of the time we sit around the clubroom playing cards . |
| 21 | The girls continued to sing , ‘ Wallflower waltz , where we sit around the walls … ’ |
| 22 | I do n't want to be blown across the room in the first ten minutes so I hang back a little as we sit round the table with Anthony Hopkins and Campbell Scott to read the scene through and discuss it . |
| 23 | As we sit round the set , |
| 24 | We act cool , like we 're not delighted to meet up again , then we sit round the kitchen table and talk . |
| 25 | As we sat down a little way away from the rest of the group , I saw a small girl waving her hamster 's cage at the sky . |
| 26 | We sat there a while , almost dark inside after Mendez dropped the side curtains , not saying anything , feeling the coach move up and down on its leather thoroughbraces as the boy who worked for us put the travelling bags in the rear end boot and covered them with a canvas . |
| 27 | Harlequins ' prompt 30-day suspension of the Wallaby World Cup forward , which forestalled any further action by the powers-that-be , did lead to him sitting out the loss to Northampton in the league ( although few of Quins ' other internationals played anyway ) . |
| 28 | It 'll be all hands on deck from now on , ’ Moran told the girls as they sat over a late breakfast . |
| 29 | They sat round a quiet corner table . |
| 30 | They sat round a huge log fire , the flickering flames casting long shadows against the far wall . |