Example sentences of "[pron] sit [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | She bade them sit and brought a tray of wine , cups , and a bowl of sugared wafers . |
2 | And then when I gave you the minimum premium er it was like right okay well that 's , that 's the easy way out is n't it , twenty quid a month , okay I might do something for twenty quid because I was n't committed and that 's what exploration of needs is all about and it 's , it 's so easy for me to sit and say yeah that 's what you need to do but putting myself in your shoes , you know , a few years ago |
3 | I sit and fidget like a child . |
4 | Usually when I sit and stare at my blank sheets of A4 paper every month , I am trying to think how I can help you with your Duomatic machines . |
5 | I sit and stare for some time , wondering if he is sick . |
6 | I sit and eat my meals and read a book and he watches me . |
7 | I sit and watch Mum . |
8 | I sit and think how I 've struggled to get a home together , and within a couple of minutes it 's all smashed up . |
9 | I sit and think . |
10 | I sit and talk to him . |
11 | I can do that while I sit and have my tea . ’ |
12 | I sit and read and I 'm tightening up like this and I like that to sort of |
13 | I bought myself a mug of tea at the counter in order to pay for something for a change , then I sat and waited for Kathleen . |
14 | I sat and waited . |
15 | I left George 's office and went two doors along to my roomette to dig my telescopic-lens binoculars-camera out of Tommy 's holdall , and I sat and waited by the window for gaunt-face 's return . |
16 | I made my way to an hotel lounge in the Diamond , where I sat and read a leaflet I had picked up in the church . |
17 | Joe said he went through night , he said I sat and come home in morning |
18 | Having filled two glasses I sat and drank one while the storm was dying . |
19 | I sat and stared at the paper in front of me and tried to blank out the present and get back into my story — forward , that is , into my invented future , and out of the world of queries and vague apprehensions . |
20 | I sat and looked at what I had got to do and in quite lateral ways determined how to do it , which was not in the way they had always done it . |
21 | From the tarn , I followed my nose down to a cairn that stands on the shoulder above Deepdale Side where the view down Deepdale into Dentdale was so good that I sat and looked at it for a good half-hour until the thought that I needed to be home by late afternoon pushed me on down to the green lane of the old Craven Way . |
22 | I sat and looked at my reflection and that of the formica table in the window . |
23 | I sat and looked at my trowel , Stoutstroke . |
24 | I still remember the feeling of hopelessness as I sat and looked at a board covered with arrows and lines , the words ‘ tacking ’ , ‘ rigging ’ , ‘ wind direction ’ and ‘ points of sailing ’ floating around in my head . |
25 | Whyte ( 1955 ) agrees : ‘ As I sat and listened , I learned the answers to questions I would not have had the sense to ask if I had been getting my information solely on an interviewing basis . ’ |
26 | I sat and listened . |
27 | I sat and listened , to the radio which was not turned on , to the television whose volume was mute , naught . |
28 | I sat and let him brood . |
29 | A summons from the tannoy interrupted our homespun philosophies and Joe sped off to perform a faultless run-through with no sign of the steroid-induced agitation — a true pro — while I sat and thought about life 's ‘ hard knocks ’ . |
30 | I sat and thought about it . |