Example sentences of "sit [adv prt] [prep] the " 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 | And significantly , her boss and colleague sit in on the trial , revealing their emotional investment in what 's at stake . |
| 5 | 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 ? |
| 6 | sit in on the public |
| 7 | I sit down to the table , and watch me , real men are n't like that are they ? and it locks |
| 8 | Guests are often late and rarely sit down at the table on time . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Please sit down at the table . |
| 11 | There 's plenty here , so if you clean yourself up and sit down at the table I 'll put something out for you too . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Have your partner sit down on the mat , extending one leg and flexing the other . |
| 14 | I sit down on the floor next to Marie and look round . |
| 15 | I sit down on the bench and look up at the sky . |
| 16 | Then lie or sit down on the nearest piece of furniture , try to keep warm and wait calmly for help to arrive . |
| 17 | I sit down on the edge of the chair and put my arm around her . |
| 18 | Again , change hands , push the tiller to where you were sitting , watch for the boom , as it swings across , straighten up and sit down on the new side . |
| 19 | Mandy rushed over , and made her sit down on the couch . |
| 20 | Right , sit down on the bed and give me your legs . ’ |
| 21 | She sit down on the chair but she 'll want to stand up a little bit cause we got bins underneath and she wants to put her feet on the bins |
| 22 | Just wait until the last day , when you come , you sit down on the fucking stool and each leg goes like that ! |
| 23 | Come on , sit down on the step . |
| 24 | For the first set of songs , I had more to do with that side mainly because I 'm the guitarist , and I sit down with the guitar for 3 or 4 hours every day , so there 's always a riff there . |
| 25 | ‘ We should get six top international players and a number of international referees and sit down with the law-makers so that all points of view are aired . ’ |
| 26 | So you sit down with The Hook and ask him about what it was like in the '60s in London , when he was lionised by Van Morrison , The Animals , Peter Green and all the gut-bucket R&B bands , but he just laughs and says it was fun . |
| 27 | Forget the original lecture situation and sit down with the speaker to work out the best way of communicating his or her message on the video screen . |
| 28 | Make tying laces into a great game : sit down with the shoes in front of you both and tie and untie them together . |
| 29 | Its accountants sit down with the auditor for a day of conjuring tricks and , hey presto , £15m gets lost in a cloud of smoke , leaving a mere £7m to find . |
| 30 | That we sit down with the figures and it might be another thing like we did with the bridal magazines , that we go to somebody and say , look we would like to do this to increase our turnover , will you fund us for half a year ? |