Example sentences of "[pers pn] sit [adj] for " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ They 've forced me to sit cross-legged for hours leaning against a wall with my fingertips . ’ |
2 | you sit here , you sit still for a minute and eat , eat your sandwich and I 'll just put Joseph in the car oh what |
3 | But I 'd settle for you sitting still for a while . " |
4 | She sat still for a full five minutes , then stood up brusquely . |
5 | She sat immobile for a long time , staring into the embers of the dying fire , her thoughts so chaotic that she could hardly make any order out of them . |
6 | She sat bushy-tailed for the day at a table with two men , one her husband ( ‘ You 'd think I 'd know by now after thirty-eight years what he likes for his breakfast ’ ) , the other a distant cousin , I decided . |
7 | On one occasion she sat alone for six hours travelling up to Carlisle . |
8 | She sat dry-eyed for what felt like hours , then she had a long bath and washed her hair . |
9 | She sat silent for a while , making a decision . |
10 | There were frogs all round us , bubbling away , and we sat still for a bit and then he said , ‘ That 's the sound of Africa — it 's one of the things I love best ’ , and I knew he had n't been thinking about the baby or about me . |
11 | They sat still for a second , then Evans stood up and pushed his chair back and the others followed . |
12 | If a rat is placed in a marked box and given an injection of apomorphine , it sits still for half an hour with its hair erect and shivering . |
13 | He sat still for a while , steadying himself , waiting for explanations to arrange themselves in his head . |
14 | He sat still for another half-hour or so , then got up and walked slowly out to the water 's edge . |
15 | Always got like that when he sat still for a long time . |
16 | He sat quiet for another moment , and then began raging . |
17 | He sat quiet for a while . |
18 | When she had finished and was stirring a saccharine tablet into her coffee , he sat silent for a while , his little eyes half closed , his pursed lips showing that he was thinking hard . |
19 | He sat silent for a long moment , recollecting how the past few years had dealt with Donata Blount and her family . |
20 | He sat silent for a moment , glancing with a look of displeasure at the cars jamming them in on either side . |
21 | He sat silent for a long moment , considering her soberly from beneath knitted brows . |
22 | He sat silent for a moment , thinking . |