Example sentences of "[pron] sit [adv prt] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm sorry to interrupt , ’ they say politely on the phone , and I sit up straighter and always feel guilty . |
| 2 | I only had twenty four hours ' notice and then I sat up all night learning a speech and then dried flat at the audition . |
| 3 | I sat up all night on the Sunday and wrote a nineteen-page document . |
| 4 | ‘ I sat up all through the flight putting it together . |
| 5 | Last night I sat up last night to watch that George Foreman fight and they had to put football on before it and I fell asleep and I missed the bloody fight ! |
| 6 | I sat down next to him and put my hand on his arm . |
| 7 | ‘ Have some skoosh , ’ Ash said as I sat down next to her . |
| 8 | I sat down next to Mum . |
| 9 | I did n't look at them good till I sat down next to Mr. Mendez . |
| 10 | Pa sits me on the wooden bench he has built facing the altar , and himself sits down next to me . |
| 11 | If you sit at the back of a lecture hall , you 'll get less out of it than if you sit up front . |
| 12 | ‘ I imagine art school is a place where you sit up all hours putting the world to rights ? ’ |
| 13 | Quite so it 's about feeling you 're going to make a fool of yourself , I mean what 's the feeling when you come in and you sit down first thing in the morning you look all round at the other eleven people |
| 14 | She sits down flat and firmly on the pin placed purposely for her displeasure on the bench in the wooded glade . |
| 15 | In the shop Lydia heard rumours of men who sat up all night amongst their carrots , a shotgun across their knees for fear of jealous rivals who would come under cover of darkness to pour paraquat on the feathery fronds ; of women who stood all night in their kitchens baking , baking in the quest for the one , the perfect , cake or loaf . |
| 16 | The chief innovation however , were the 32 passengers who sat along wooden seats at each side . |
| 17 | With Royal Berkshire establishing a strong lead in Area 7 , Riverside Chiswick also pulled out all the stops to move up a place above Carlton London — who sat out this round — by beating the unfortunate BBC , who remained at the foot of the table to record their first win this season . |
| 18 | She was happy when she sat up all night to spare Andrew a vigil by a sick or calving or foaling animal . |
| 19 | Before the brandy came a familiar American voice penetrated Julia 's tiredness and she sat up straighter . |
| 20 | She sat up straighter , and patted the bed for Theda to sit . |
| 21 | Stung , she sat up straighter in her chair . |
| 22 | Frowning , she sat up cross-legged on the towel under the shade of the umbrella , and accepted a wedge of cheese and some crusty bread . |
| 23 | It was run by a French couple ; he cooked , she sat out front and waited at table , a pretty daughter handed out the keys . |
| 24 | She sat back intrigued . |
| 25 | She sat down one afternoon with the idea of coiling gold and silver thread into starbursts on milk-bottle tops . |
| 26 | She sat down next to Mike , who started to introduce her to everybody . |
| 27 | She sat down next to him , trying not to show her awkwardness . |
| 28 | We sat up all night . |
| 29 | well you remember er when we sat down this evening I said there was a couple of ways that you could help me , one of these ways was that er you might be able to introduce me to one or two of your friends and I can run through the same ideas with them . |
| 30 | Whoever sits down first gets the remote-control . |