Example sentences of "[pron] sit [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's rows of benches in front of it and I sit down for a bit to look at the tree . |
| 2 | I feel much better when I 'm back on the platform , and I sit down for a breather . |
| 3 | I sit there for a bit longer , till I finish my coffee , then I decide to go out and have a look round the station . |
| 4 | I sit there for quite a bit , hunched up on the pavement . |
| 5 | I sit there for a second thinking , No , it ca n't be … |
| 6 | " May I sit here for a while and keep you company ? " asked the fox . |
| 7 | After being hired ‘ I sat here for five weeks waiting for a telephone call , ’ says Terry Chellew , the boss of IDG 's British magazines . |
| 8 | I sat around for a while , talking to people . |
| 9 | I sat up for the next few nights , my head poking out of the back skylight of the loft , my ears straining for the tinkle of glass breaking or muffled curses , or the more usual signal of the birds being disturbed and taking flight , but nothing more happened . |
| 10 | For about three weeks I sat constantly for about four hours a day with Dawn perched on my fist , watching TV or listening to the radio , quietly trying to make it seem as if this were the most natural thing in the world for a boy and his owl to be doing . |
| 11 | I sat down for my picnic . |
| 12 | I sat there for about ten minutes and then I came out . |
| 13 | I sat there for a while . |
| 14 | Anyway , I sat there for a couple of minutes and then the cab came . ’ |
| 15 | I sat there for an hour stuffing my stomach and telling him exactly what had happened . |
| 16 | ‘ I sat there for ages , waiting , talking to the baby . |
| 17 | I sat quietly for a while finishing my most recent cup of coffee . |
| 18 | That summer the maternal grandmother 's gift of a Ramadan feast was brought without question to the family majlis , and the young Sheikh , his friends and I sat together for those last painful moments of the first day of Ramadan . |
| 19 | When you sit down for a wee while . |
| 20 | Wo n't you be afraid while you sit down for your long wait ? ’ |
| 21 | At first puzzled , then anxious , then furious with disbelief , you sit in the driveway with the engine running ; you sit there for weeks , months , for years , waiting for the doors to open . |
| 22 | And I thought whatever 's she sitting there for ? |
| 23 | What 's she sitting there for ? |
| 24 | What are you sitting there for ? |
| 25 | Can you sit down for a while after that ? |
| 26 | will you sit down for two more minutes . |
| 27 | Mum will you sit down for five minutes . |
| 28 | How could you kiss someone properly when you knew they had let you sit there for hours waiting for them while they went off and had dinner with someone else ? |
| 29 | The ninth bomber came out of a lightening sky at six o'clock exactly , and though she sat there for another hour , it was the last . |
| 30 | She sat there for a few seconds , then heard a voice softly calling her name . |