Example sentences of "[pron] sit there [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 |
| 4 | She sits there all evening and no-one even talks to her . |
| 5 | But she sits there all night flat as a shadow on the wall and there is music and celebration and other people dancing . |
| 6 | I remember we sat there all afternoon looking at that wonderful picture and planning our poem in our heads . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | In other camps rats lived under the seats and bit people as they sat there naked . |
| 9 | It sits there all day . |
| 10 | I mean they 'll just they 'll just have it sat there empty , it 's been empty a year now . |
| 11 | But he sat there three hours on the motorway waiting for the bloody A A man to find him and , apparently he did n't find it , could n't find him sa cos he rang back he said , look there 's no one come yet ! |