Example sentences of "sit here and [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Come and sit here and tell me about yourself . |
| 2 | Nothing to do but sit here and wait to be fried . |
| 3 | Sit here and wait for me . ’ |
| 4 | What shall we do , sit here and wait a bit , or go inside ? |
| 5 | So I sit here and wait ? |
| 6 | ‘ We sit here and hear the screech of brakes and the bang . |
| 7 | If I sit here , she thought , my hand guarding the pulse , if I sit here and do not move , I shall not die . |
| 8 | I 'd far rather do something exciting , like sit here and watch my fingernails grow . ’ |
| 9 | sit here and watch it . |
| 10 | They will cope , they will cope these people Nothing , absolutely nothing , so instead sit here and accept it , because I 'm going to survive these days . |
| 11 | and I do n't believe that is detailed for us , has enabled us sit here and say , yes , A there 's room for them , and B there 's enough parking , and C there 's enough turning . |
| 12 | Whilst I sit here and admire your expertise and |
| 13 | She said , ‘ You just sit here and think about what you 've done . |
| 14 | But to have to sit here and pretend interest in an endless parade of painted mannequins wearing bored looks and the ridiculous fashions he 'd already glimpsed in the huge sketches plastered on the wall as decorations — Nicolo shifted again . |
| 15 | It is all very well for us to sit here and tell teachers to go on extra courses , but they 're finding that there are n't any left , so the next thing that they can turn to the next person they can turn to is the educational psychologist . |
| 16 | I was hoping to sit here and make my mask … ’ |
| 17 | ‘ It 's easy for people to sit here and say get rid of Roy Aitken . |
| 18 | My dad used to sit here and say " Why do n't you go to the doctors ? " |
| 19 | So it 's easy for me to sit here and say , we think we 're doing a good job on the environment , because we 're not threatened , we do have to find ways round existing chemicals , we may have to pay , pay a higher price , but we 're not threatened in terms of the the core of our bottom line . |
| 20 | I do n't know what it is about it , but I find I have the urge to sit here and enjoy it . |
| 21 | Look , you 'll have to sit here and wait for me , all right ? |
| 22 | Has somebody got to sit here and listen to all this rubbish ? |
| 23 | I want to sit here and get stinking drunk and forget . ’ |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | I 've been sitting here and thinking about God . |
| 26 | But , George is off Monday and Tuesday but so if you were getting them , sitting here and bringing them up on Thursday John can come here and get his tea here and then take them home . |
| 27 | Sitting here I 'm thinking oh , someone 's bound to ring while I 'm sitting here and want to hire something . |
| 28 | Yeah , we 're sitting here and talking about crap . |
| 29 | ‘ I 'm aware of that , but I ca n't sit here and await their pleasure . |
| 30 | One could sit here and admire the view , she thought ; or lie almost hidden by the tall golden grasses which , perhaps because the place was not easy of access , had been left to grow to their full height and now filled the air with their mingled scents . |