Example sentences of "sit [adv] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In April the garden was a jungle of bluebells , bursting from under the trees in blue tides above your ankles , but by midsummer my grandmother had it tame again , fifty yards of earth between wooden fences bearing docile rows of hollyhock and sweet peas ; an ex-army rug was spread on the shaven lawn for the children to sit on for tea outdoors . |
| 2 | They compose themselves as the laibon appears and suggests we sit down for tea . |
| 3 | He opened a second door , which again had an elegant stained glass transom above it , and Belinda found it led to an open veranda that must connect with the one they had sat on for drinks . |
| 4 | Poles have sat down for efficiency . |
| 5 | She walked up the stone stairs to the sound of the scratchy long-playing record , highlights from Turandot , which she had put on as they had sat down for dinner . |
| 6 | She watched him go , realizing it was weeks since they had sat down for dinner together without an interruption , and over a week since they had made love . |
| 7 | They 'd sat there for hours , until nine o'clock at least , until the small garden became shadowy in the dusk . |
| 8 | In the breathy calm I was able to sit outside for supper , under a sky powdered with stars , limpid river sounds in the background , and a very proper glass of peaty , river-coloured liquid in hand . |
| 9 | It was like Ruth , to bring her to a place she hated and loathed , and make her sit here for hours with wet hair . |
| 10 | At first puzzled , then anxious , then furious with disbelief , you sit in the driveway with the engine running ; you sit there for weeks , months , for years , waiting for the doors to open . |
| 11 | ‘ Yes , he sits there for hours , he thinks . ’ |
| 12 | In reception they put you in a little cubicle like a wardrobe and you have to sit there for hours . |
| 13 | They do , they think people did it to me so I 'm gon na do it to them they just do it as a way of getting back , it 's not is this what people do , they know it 's not right they just do it because they think well we had to sit there for hours on look out so they can too . |
| 14 | Within a short time she was sitting only for Dante Gabriel Rossetti [ q.v . ] . |
| 15 | I 'm sitting in for Bill Heine , who 's off for today . |
| 16 | Before sitting down for lunch at Claridge 's yesterday , she told me : ‘ Darling , I really could n't care . |
| 17 | Another advantage was being near enough to the basecamp to go back for lunch ; not only did it mean we could have a hot drink but it avoided the clammy sensation , which Carole graphically described , of sitting down for lunch when you 're soaked on the outside and soaked on the inside . |
| 18 | Let's say you get up in the morning and spend 15 minutes sitting down for breakfast . |
| 19 | Cos when you 're sitting down for ages |
| 20 | ‘ It seems preferable to sitting here for goodness knows how long twiddling my thumbs . ’ |
| 21 | I needed the money and it sounded O.K. But sitting around for hours at a stretch without a word from anybody I was able to do a lot of thinking . ’ |
| 22 | But it was as I got into my teenaged years I began to get bored with my walk on roles , sitting around for hours waiting to go on with make-up and costumes on was no fun any more , but I was far too young to do anything else but walk on say a few lines and walk off again . |
| 23 | What was I doing admiring you for being so well-behaved , sitting there for hours content to have your arm round me ? |
| 24 | I also find flying so boring , just sitting there for hours . ’ |
| 25 | Since the embers were cool , Tallis imagined that she had been sitting there for hours . |
| 26 | I 've seen people sitting there for hours and hours , their weans soaking and starving . ’ |
| 27 | They must be sitting there for hours with a camera ! |
| 28 | There 's a set up that checks a certain amount of areas and then blanks it otherwise you could be sitting there for hours waiting for a new Con activity so you just chew them off bit by bit . |
| 29 | And I wondered why there was n't and I 'd been sitting there for ages , twenty five past five is the appointment . |
| 30 | Michael Morris will sit in for Betty Boothroyd … the first woman Speaker , who was elected last week . |