Example sentences of "sit [adv] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But you do n't do you hav wil will have you got to shrink wrap it at all or will it hold will it will it just sit right on the pallets without falling off ? |
| 2 | He could exhibit a saint-like submissiveness , become a mere servant of art , willing to learn from anyone ; he would sit patiently at the bedsides of the sick and dying , painting unhappy men and women and feeling awe before peasant earth-mothers , but he could never be coerced into doing anything against his will . |
| 3 | Celia moved to an easy-chair , so that David and Juliet could sit together on the sofa . |
| 4 | Let's go back and sit together in the shade , shall we ? |
| 5 | In a more complex case I might sit in on a discussion within a committee but begin to consider that it is not moving in a direction that suits me . |
| 6 | In the middle of the window was a shiny red car you could sit in with a driver 's wheel you could turn and a horn you could peep . |
| 7 | Chairman 's the person that can sit in with the group of people and is good in terms of receiving information from people and disseminating information and giving it back out again making sure that everybody 's being brought in so he 's a person really not not so much a leader but he will be a person who can keep the group together and can make sure that all the information flows around the group and that everybody 's getting a fair say a fair crack of the whip in terms of what 's going on in terms of orienting towards a task , so everything 's towards a task you need towards a task . |
| 8 | Can you sit down for a while after that ? |
| 9 | I 'd have roasted Matilda 's bottom for her so she could n't sit down for a month ! ’ |
| 10 | I 'll just sit down for a moment . ’ |
| 11 | The drinks machine was in the passage leading to the library and sometimes one or other of them would sit down for a break , and she found it a relief to talk to a real human being . |
| 12 | The boy 's father , Gavin Lodge , said : If I could get hold of these idiots they would n't sit down for a week . ’ |
| 13 | Er they would n't go and sit down for the story with all the other children sit at , sat on my knee on the floor for a short while . |
| 14 | For just £2.75 the happy eater can sit down to a plate of fish , chips , mushy peas and a bread bun . |
| 15 | I should sit down to the job Tim and you wo n't fall over . |
| 16 | We 've asked the people for half past three , they 'll all be here by four , so we need n't sit down to the tea until half past five , and we would n't have got to the cake until your father has the business closed , and is back here . ’ |
| 17 | Many will sit down despite the fact the music is still playing . |
| 18 | Now I might sit down on the beach and have a good blub . ’ |
| 19 | I just might , appallingly , sit down on the kitchen chair and start to weep … |
| 20 | I would sit down on the fishing stool , ready to eat , but then I would be up and down , in and out of the lockers , getting the fork I had forgotten , or the knife to peel the carrot , or even the carrot itself . |
| 21 | When I did spot the kestrel , I would sit down on the ground or the nearest bench and gaze in amazement . |
| 22 | Conversely , any fool can sit down at a slot machine . |
| 23 | He would sit down at a table , take a sheet of writing paper , and discharge himself into me . |
| 24 | They may sit down at a table to chat to a friend . |
| 25 | ‘ If he was he would sit down at the negotiating table with us . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Do sit down at the table , ’ she said to the rude young man . |
| 27 | If one did not sit down at the table there would be a gap , an empty space that would spoil the symmetry of the host 's table . |
| 28 | And eventually they told us to go upstairs and sit down at the table . |
| 29 | To that representative of the religious élite who by his bland statement , ‘ How happy are those who will sit down at the feast in the Kingdom of God ! , ’ revealed that he counted on a reserved seat , our Lord told the parable of the Great Feast . |
| 30 | Write about one main incident or object ( Chekhov said you could select anything you saw and write about it , but do n't sit down at the typewriter before the idea has gelled in your mind . |