Example sentences of "sit [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , unless I want junk food from one of the many establishments purveying it in this thoroughly commercialised station , all I have available to sit on in the huge concourse is a grubby metal flip-up slat a few inches wide . |
| 2 | For example , Pete Coleman had to carry a shooting-stick for Greg Norman to sit on in the 1982 Australian Open , and in Zambia a caddie I saw on my Safari Tour travels carried an extra that could have proved an even bigger life-saver than the carrots that are pulled out of the bag by Sam Torrance 's caddie Malcolm Mason ( the carrots are supposed to calm Sam down on the greens ) : the Zambian caddie was carrying President Kaunda 's bag in a pro-am , and surreptitiously tucked away was a gun , just in case somebody tried to assassinate the golfing president while he decided on a four- or a five-iron . |
| 3 | A former bus driver is staging an all night sit in outside the offices of a training organisation he claims forced him out of a job . |
| 4 | In what other job might you call in and use a hot air balloon to appear over a city on a publicity stunt and that same afternoon sit in on a seminar which you have arranged as a scientific event ? |
| 5 | And significantly , her boss and colleague sit in on the trial , revealing their emotional investment in what 's at stake . |
| 6 | Erm it was actually somebody who came for an interview and you know how you sit in on the presentations when you do the group presentations ? |
| 7 | sit in on the public |
| 8 | On Saturday nights around 30 people sit down to a four-course SE Asian banquet . |
| 9 | Playing a Stableford of the three best individual scores , they finish about 3½ hours later and sit down to a breakfast provided by the ladies . |
| 10 | It occurred to her that most people , her former self included , would not walk away from an attack by a homicidal transvestite and sit down to a healthy breakfast . |
| 11 | Just over two million of our pupils sit down to a knife-and-fork meal at midday . |
| 12 | In one house a family of six sit down to a meal , using three-legged chairs and chunks of masonry for seats . |
| 13 | Every Sunday the family get up early for an enormous American breakfast — pancakes , ham , waffles with maple syrup , and then later on in the afternoon they all sit down to an English roast . |
| 14 | I sit down to the table , and watch me , real men are n't like that are they ? and it locks |
| 15 | Sit down for a minute . |
| 16 | There 's rows of benches in front of it and I sit down for a bit to look at the tree . |
| 17 | I feel much better when I 'm back on the platform , and I sit down for a breather . |
| 18 | You either sit down for a meal or get ready for bed and the phone goes . ’ |
| 19 | Right , just sit down for a minute and let's , Michael read his first . |
| 20 | When you sit down for a wee while . |
| 21 | Here — ’ he shoved some gear off the wooden slats of the cockpit , ‘ sit down for a bit . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Come and sit down for a minute while the lasagne finishes cooking . ’ |
| 23 | Sit down for a minute , he 's gon na be a minute . |
| 24 | No sorry it 's mummy 's fault , she pulled the wrong one , that 's it , good girl , I 'll er brush your hair in a minute , get all your knots out , right , sit down for a minute , well turn round , there |
| 25 | Jamie and I sit down at a side table to wait . |
| 26 | Guests are often late and rarely sit down at the table on time . |
| 27 | The temptation and the suspense novel , a book in which a high degree of identification both from intellectual curiosity and emotional involvement is necessary for the writer as much as the reader , is to catch hold of some intriguing initial situation , sit down at the typewriter and go racing ahead from there . |
| 28 | Please sit down at the table . |
| 29 | There 's plenty here , so if you clean yourself up and sit down at the table I 'll put something out for you too . |
| 30 | And there 's another sort of things now that we do n't hear is when you sit down at the table to eat erm they 're probably the most the hostess would say now would be , Help yourself . |