Example sentences of "[pron] sit [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Truman once said he was asked what the job of the presidency involved and Truman once said I sit here all day trying to persuade people to do the things they ought to have the sense to do without my persuading them . |
| 2 | I sit too stunned to move . |
| 3 | I sit alone one Sunday evening at the Old Ship , waiting . |
| 4 | Two or three nights on the run we had him downstairs — at two o'clock to six o'clock I sat here one morning . |
| 5 | And he did n't turn up Wednesday , I sat here all bloody day Wednesday and he did n't turn up ! |
| 6 | As I sat there first at EDC [ Economic Development Committee ] and then at Home Affairs , I reflected on the way that Cabinet Committees as well as the Cabinet itself are becoming part of the dignified element of the English constitution . |
| 7 | I sat there silent for a moment while he went on looking at me sympathetically as if I 'd been telling him a hard-luck story . |
| 8 | I sat there last night I actually I 'm on the way to the post office cos I got the erm form back for claiming for Christmas holidays |
| 9 | When he arrived at the chapel , which sat about 3,000 , he was shocked to learn that ‘ a certain upper gallery holding 150 was ‘ the Coloured Gallery ’ . |
| 10 | ‘ You sit here quiet and watch the river , my love , ’ he muttered , as he wrapped the edges of his coat around her knees . |
| 11 | She sits there all evening and no-one even talks to her . |
| 12 | But she sits there all night flat as a shadow on the wall and there is music and celebration and other people dancing . |
| 13 | With her elegant carriage ( she sits perfectly straight with her back against the chair , rarely fidgeting ) and rather regal bearing , the Baroness sticks out in the room full of younger , rougher inmates like a sore thumb . |
| 14 | All the same , her dreamy enjoyment faded and as Felipe was almost smothered by Candace and Mitch was utterly involved with Ana , who refused to be more than primly polite to the new arrivals , Maggie found herself encumbered with Peter Rainford , who sat as close as he could get and set out to entertain her . |
| 15 | Of him , that Holy man , who sat so rapt |
| 16 | She sat very upright and looked down at her green lap and the bronze toes of her boots , and the brown silk handbag on a gilt chain which contained a handkerchief , a phial of sal volatile and some of Aunt Emily 's calling cards in a mother of pearl case , since she had none of her own . |
| 17 | Her deafness became evident at the age of 12 while she was attending a school run by a Reverend Perry , when she found that she could not hear very well if she sat too far from the teacher , and by the time she was 16 , it had worsened as to become very noticeable and inconvenient to herself . |
| 18 | To my surprise , she sat quietly all through it , until the important moment when I had to say my Brownie Promise . |
| 19 | She sat as primly as any Victorian governess . |
| 20 | I remember we sat there all afternoon looking at that wonderful picture and planning our poem in our heads . |
| 21 | And they sit uncomfortably next to the strident calls for antitrust laws and enforcement to be relaxed in order to help American firms take on Japanese and European rivals . |
| 22 | Trapped in lapis lazuli 's rigid cages , however , they are unable to react , and so they sit there absorbing light from the red wavelengths of the spectrum . |
| 23 | We found him sitting regally cross-legged on the floor , surrounded by elders chewing tobacco , their mouths rouged and swollen with betelnut juice . |
| 24 | Years later , I was doing a scene where I had to murder my husband — it was a very dramatic scene and it was in the pit at the Royal Shakespeare Company , so it was just this tiny little theatre , with everybody sitting very close to you , and you can see everybody , and you can hear everything . |
| 25 | In other camps rats lived under the seats and bit people as they sat there naked . |
| 26 | They were close to starvation and — typical of barn owls when they 're frightened — they sat as stiff as dummies , not making a sound . |
| 27 | And he 's a bloody great fat bloke and he sits here all day and |
| 28 | It sits there all day . |
| 29 | In use always choose a wide chisel making sure that it sits truly flat on the face of the template . |
| 30 | I mean they 'll just they 'll just have it sat there empty , it 's been empty a year now . |