Example sentences of "and [verb] [adv] sit " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alfred started to his feet , but his glad cry of welcome was cut short when Beatrice inclined her stately head in his direction and moved off to sit sandwiched between Auguste Didier and Egbert Rose . |
| 2 | Dot pushed back the blanket , slid off Gloria 's lap and moved back to sit by her window . |
| 3 | She stood and came over to sit beside him on the bed . |
| 4 | I used to love it when he kicked me and enjoyed just sitting and feeling the bulge . |
| 5 | Corbett smiled and walked back to sit down on the stool while Father John bowed to Wishart and silently left the room . |
| 6 | We obeyed and went in to sit in a sombre half-circle round the fire . |
| 7 | Very few erm Continental countries would consider entrusting the administration of justice erm to erm people who took an afternoon or a day off work every week or so and went in to sit on the Bench . |
| 8 | When she finished selling the remaining tickets Sally looked around for them , realised what had happened and went back to sit on one of the hard upright chairs which lined the hall . |
| 9 | If you are prone to thread veins on the cheeks , extremes of temperature are not good — wrap a scarf round your face when you go out in chill temperatures and cold winds , and do n't sit too near the fire when you come in . |
| 10 | You 're supposed be glad that it 's old and do n't sit in there , you know th but er it 's bad , but though is n't it ? |
| 11 | And he knew that the Financial Secretary was the junior of three Treasury Ministers and did not sit in the Cabinet . |
| 12 | In some quarters it was suggested that the best solution would be to set up a government of ‘ national trustees ’ , headed by McKenna , who had deserted politics for banking and had not sat in ; Parliament since 1918 . |
| 13 | Descending the stone steps from the station platform , Durham turned up the gas and had just sat down on the bench and opened his bait tin when he was startled by the apparition of a strange man followed by a large black retriever dog emerging from the coal cellar . |
| 14 | He began to talk again about Stephen handing him the wedding-dress , how he 'd walked away with it and had then sat down on a seat on the promenade , not wanting to go on with his act any more . |
| 15 | He was not often given words to speak , and had only to sit in the shade of his massive wings and stare into the middle distance and drift in his imagination to the four corners of the sky . |
| 16 | She was drawn closer and ended up sitting on the arm of his chair , craning past him . |