Example sentences of "[pron] sit [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And erm usually if there 's space you ask them to sit just to listen to the introduction and then move on . |
| 2 | How on earth d' you expect me to sit there watching that woman being forced to humiliate herself like that ? ’ |
| 3 | I sit here gazing into your eyes . |
| 4 | As I sit here typing this letter , the sky is black and it 's pouring with rain — real April showers . |
| 5 | And so I sit here gurgling into my glass and soaking up all that moronic dreck . |
| 6 | ‘ I sit here sewing and watch the sand and seaweed in the water down there . |
| 7 | I sit here wondering how much Vinnie Dirkin knows about the murder . |
| 8 | He takes a long draw on the J , while I sit there thinking , Oh shit , then he hands the number back to me again with a big grin on his face . |
| 9 | I sit there thinking . |
| 10 | I sit there repeating a wish in my head like a child . |
| 11 | Like if I sit there painting my nails he 'll say what started that ? |
| 12 | I sit there going ‘ Mmm' ’ and ‘ Mmm ? '' at appropriate moments and greedily noting your every twitch and shudder down by the pool . |
| 13 | And then they decide , found out they had to put it in the fridge for twenty four hours , so there was I sitting there expecting a biscuit , I did n't get one . |
| 14 | ‘ I sat patiently waiting for my buddy to join me , ’ Jinky continued . |
| 15 | Astonishing to me at least , since it 's a mountain I 'm intimate with from its friendly north face , and had little notion of its dramatic cliffs lurking sneakily behind me all those times I sat innocently chewing chocolate at the top . |
| 16 | I sat actually sitting talking and drinking and the er in the house , that 's where her wedding dress was and the chauffeur sitting beside and I think he went away laughing . |
| 17 | mm , cos listen to what I mean , Ollie goes , I was sitting next to Ollie yeah and she looks at my thingy , yeah , and she goes that 's what , you 've missed out three , so I sat there writing all the nec numbers , yeah , and miss goes the other table and I 'm like oh come on Carla hurry up and do the numbers inside , and I missed , I just could n't , I could n't catch up |
| 18 | On Saturday I sat there watching his team lose at home to Chelsea and listening to an Australian Evertonian who was back at Goodison for the first time since he emigrated in 1985 . |
| 19 | and as soon as the panes been blown out , it was such a force , it was blowing them between two houses , smashing on the road , and in the end , once a few more panes had gone that was it the whole greenhouse , I sat there watching this greenhouse , it just suddenly launched itself off the bit on it , over our fence , it went , there was glass everywhere for weeks afterwards , when I was cutting the lawn , oh dear the |
| 20 | I sat there imagining all the pretty clothes I would have when I married a rich husband , but then Mary appeared with the assistant . |
| 21 | Our wartime experiences were nearly at an end and I sat there thinking of all the many people I had known briefly , wondering if I should see any of them again , and remembering the many whom I knew I should never see again . |
| 22 | So I sat there thinking up this and that , asking myself questions and not liking the answers . |
| 23 | So I sat there thinking about life , and when I listened again he was talking about orgasms . ’ |
| 24 | Too worried to eat , I sat there thinking hard about my situation . |
| 25 | I sat there thinking about it , feeling decidedly uneasy . |
| 26 | I sat there listening , feeling sick with guilt and remorse . |
| 27 | I sat there trying to remember all the details of what she had told me . |
| 28 | I sat there smoking and thinking about it . |
| 29 | I sat there sewing instead of rehearsing which I needed . |
| 30 | I sat there fuming . |