Example sentences of "sit [adv] and think " in BNC.
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| 1 | And course he 'd frightened himself and er I counted up to about eight , nine and ten I said to him , Look when you go inside that bloody gate now I said go straight into the office sit down and think for a minute where the hell are we all going to in this carry on ? |
| 2 | I think people give it away too much ; I do n't think they take the time to sit down and think about all aspects of being a creative person . |
| 3 | I think people give it away too much ; I do n't think they take the time to sit down and think about all aspects of being a creative person |
| 4 | that looked fantastic and everyone said oh god he 's so artistic you know and he 's a butcher he was n't really but we just used to sit down and think of all these ideas you know |
| 5 | I think actually somebody needs to sit down and think |
| 6 | Ingleston , if we were offered a King 's ransom , we might have to sit down and think about it , but it is very much a long , long shot ! |
| 7 | ‘ It got people to sit down and think about these things . |
| 8 | I did n't do a self-evaluation — an evaluation of myself — for the simple reason that we really did n't have time to sit down and think it out , and its a bit difficult doing it objectively … because you have no standard to compare . |
| 9 | But I did n't really have time or the ability to sit down and think about their whole term 's work which is what I had to do really . |
| 10 | You have to sit down and think and talk it through logically . ’ |
| 11 | And so he asked this girl Jane and , and then he asked me and erm and er had I sat down and thought about it I could have said well er what I thought , you know , the correct way er but I thought well there 's correct and there 's correct and I think the right way is to write to it and to say yes thanks |
| 12 | However , it is intended to make the average angler sit up and think about what he is spending his money on . |
| 13 | This has made us all sit up and think . |
| 14 | It 's made us all sit up and think about what whe 're doing . |
| 15 | ‘ The game now is too big to run your own administration in an amateur way , sit back and think big companies are going to come to us ’ . |
| 16 | ‘ The feeling was indescribable and nowadays when things do n't quite go as planned I often sit back and think of other jockeys who never had a Derby win and who , for the remainder of their careers , will be chasing this elusive rainbow . |
| 17 | The release is written and sent out in a blanket mailing of all the media outlets on the PR department " Press List " and the PR sits back and thinks the job well done . |
| 18 | In the Diaspora , our Jewish people have been inclined to sit back and think that the battle has been won and that in a little while we Jews will have our National Home in our Promised Land . |
| 19 | You have to sit back and think about this for a moment to sort out what 's going on . |
| 20 | She said , ‘ You just sit here and think about what you 've done . |
| 21 | And do n't you feel guilty after , you sit there and think |
| 22 | I mean you ca n't do that there is no correlation between you ca n't say that all the activists are extroverts cos are actually quite about the way they but they do like to have a go and it does n't say all the reflectors cos they 're sitting back and thinking and they 're actually quiet reflectors . |
| 23 | Because when I was thinking about trying to talking to you today , I thought although we 've worked quite a lot with people along this group , you might be sitting here and thinking well you do n't seem to be doing any specific work for and with old people erm , well I think your quite independent and can work out your right that , but one of the things this front line review erm it erm , it 's considering Council front line services under various headings , one of which is Retired Services that the Council provide as a group , now the leader of the Council wants to erm , get public views on how we look at these services , so , and that 's , that 's individuals and groups and one of the things that you might like to think about and I 'm that we as a local government unit who are servicing this review can help you with , is to consider how you might want to fee in for that review , erm and , and consider this , that the re-services for retired people , that the Council provides that you use and basically whether you use that , or service , we want to hear that , the Council would need to know that cos were gon na be making decisions about whether or not they should continue in this front line review erm , and erm , you know , or what things you would , what , what are your questions on about those services , what other things you would like to see provided , things like that and I thing this group could quite easily make a collective representation , a collective submission to that process then you could do it as individual 's as well , so that , that exercise it , it should be over by the eleventh of October it starts on the sixth of September . |
| 24 | I 've been sitting here and thinking about God . |
| 25 | when people are sitting there and thinking oh yes I 'll have a storage heater , you keep lovely and warm you get your bill at the end , a few hundred pound er |
| 26 | It made me sit down and think , ‘ I do n't give a damn what they 're saying . |
| 27 | pensioner themselves who would sit down and think , now take for instance assuming that I would n't be a member of that just so surely a , a senior citizens ' club . |
| 28 | Now all she wanted was for him to go , so she could sit down and think it over . |
| 29 | Lead words , if you want to sit down and , in , in general you see er , you want to just sit down and think about what you 're doing and what you 're not doing , you can sit down and exercise on these words , now I 'm not saying you 'd ever want to do that , right now if , now you know I was saying to you about comparative questions right |
| 30 | Well that 'll make them sit up and think that 's for sure |