Example sentences of "sit [adv prt] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I should sit down to the job Tim and you wo n't fall over . |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | Many will sit down despite the fact the music is still playing . |
| 6 | Now I might sit down on the beach and have a good blub . ’ |
| 7 | I just might , appallingly , sit down on the kitchen chair and start to weep … |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | When I did spot the kestrel , I would sit down on the ground or the nearest bench and gaze in amazement . |
| 10 | ‘ If he was he would sit down at the negotiating table with us . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Do sit down at the table , ’ she said to the rude young man . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | And eventually they told us to go upstairs and sit down at the table . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | When we have turned the corner , I will sit down with the manager and discuss the future with him . ’ |
| 17 | I have my doubts that Batty will ever be world class , that aside I can not understand why Wilko can not sit down with the side he 's got and bang something out to keep both Strachan and Rocastle in the side . |
| 18 | Well I 'm prepared to say th th that I that I think that we do do good practice in that we do sit down with the children and help them , each individual along with the with our joint statements . |
| 19 | Miles met them , and clasping Joseph 's hand , said , ‘ Come ; let us sit down by the fire and talk this matter over ’ . |
| 20 | Now Vinnie will realise why we did not sit down in the pub . |
| 21 | Cos he might sit down in the middle |
| 22 | You know , she made him sit down in the middle in front of everybody you see |
| 23 | Well this you can sit down in the seats , you can look at the you can touch the tables , there 's not a lot of stuff but if if you got any sense of history you can get the feel of the place you know . |
| 24 | Yes , but you 've got ta sit down in the end so |
| 25 | Let's go and sit down in the thing |
| 26 | Well my pal and myself we took these two girls and we sat in the middle of the Temperance Hall and he said come on let's sit over on the balcony he says and put up my clothes by the radiator he says it 's been raining he says and it will dry them , so we moved , and exactly from were we moved was where the women got killed , just candelabra dropped on her and er when it happened the fella on the stage the comedian was singing , a hundred years from now you wo n't be here , and I wo n't be here and from the corner of my eye I could see something gradually dropping like one of these candelabras and I thought hello that 's part of the act you know , it was just gradually coming down and all of a sudden , whooosh and the roof came straight in oh and I do n't know sure I 'd I , everything went dark of course I mean it was all in blacked-out all the chairs were loose , so as the folks wended their way towards the exit doors they took the chairs with them , so they politely threw them back in the crowd that stood in the hall so you were dodging chairs as well as trying to get out , where we were , where we were seated the firemen were hacking at the windows thinking that it was a fire because all the dust had gone up in the air and the reflection of the light from the market I suppose and that would give the appearance of smoke , and he was , I said to this fireman I said there 's no fire , he says , he says there is I said there 's no fire in here , anyway we eventually got out but I took these girls back home to and I really , it was , properly unnerved us both and as we came on that old tram we were , we thought you know everything seemed to sort of upset us and when I got far more upset on the Sunday morning when I went to have a look at it , the whole roof had come right in , but there were fifty people got injured you know and about , oh there was one lady killed . |
| 27 | Can you sit up at the table then ? |
| 28 | with , with my granddaughter , she , she did the same s she used to go and babysit at this girl 's house and she fe felt , she was only fourteen , and she felt sorry for her and she 'd go and babysit every night she 'd go and babysit and er but she used to b sit up in the bedroom , she never ever went down the sitting room thinking that the child 's mother was either down in the sitting room or just going out for a short while and coming back and then eventually they put erm a bed up in the child 's bedroom for Denise to stay there over nights and Pearl did n't worry at all , well she knew , knew where , at least she knew where and er this girl was bringing men back down in the sitting room every night , three or four , sometimes ten men in a night during the night ! |
| 29 | The wool room , which is now converted for serving teas , has entrance from the house , and patrons can sit out on the gallery . |
| 30 | But I wo n't sit out on the wing and sulk . |