Example sentences of "[verb] n't sit " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did n't sit around . |
| 2 | They did n't sit but stood around the table . |
| 3 | The more inglorious aspects of Morrison 's life and behaviour , and the undignified myth-making indulged in by his ‘ followers ’ are n't concealed , but then Jones does n't exactly run the hoary old rock conceit of romantic self-destruction out of town either : ‘ Humility was a trait which did n't sit well with Morrison ’ is about as heavy as the criticism gets . |
| 4 | I mean , I did n't sit her down and examine her on her own life-history . |
| 5 | ‘ I bet you did n't sit on the sofa with him , holding hands . ’ |
| 6 | That night in the pub I did n't sit at the same table as the others but moved into the other bar with my pint and newspaper . |
| 7 | Harley did n't sit around totally idle ; there were some one-off specials — Hammersmith Odeon and Camden Palace — and of course he was six months working on Andrew Lloyd Webber 's ‘ Phantom Of The Opera ’ … |
| 8 | They attacked life , they did n't sit quietly around waiting for it to flatten them . |
| 9 | Hoving 's gushings are just as tiresome as his nastiness : his description of warming up the cantankerous Robert Lehman ( estranged from the museum over what the collector believed to be an anti-Semitic slight ) recalls similar scenes in Shirley Temple films , the main difference being that presumably Hoving did n't sit on Lehman 's lap . |
| 10 | ‘ It was n't a great trial to us and we did n't sit sobbing in a comer about it , ’ she says although other pupils remember Diana as a ‘ private and controlled ’ teenager who did not wear her emotions on her sleeve . |
| 11 | By methods which did n't sit well in peacetime America . |
| 12 | This time he did n't sit down . |
| 13 | Susan walked into the room but did n't sit down . |
| 14 | They did n't sit together . |
| 15 | The whole of the school would join in that , boys and girls were together , they were se segregated in the hall you did n't sit next to a girl or anything like that , the boys were on one side , the girls were on the other side . |
| 16 | Perhaps it 's the furniture that would send a splinter into a man if he did n't sit as still as a rock . |
| 17 | We did n't sit down thinking deeply about what we had been doing or anything like that , largely because we were teaching at the same time . |
| 18 | We did n't sit around discussing the past with each other . |
| 19 | Reluctantly , Charity joined them , though she did n't sit down . |
| 20 | It did n't sit well , anyway . ’ |
| 21 | Oh you did n't sit on the back seat then ? |
| 22 | And I , when I read it , I had n't looked at this , but I never thought it was really , I did n't sit there going |
| 23 | But do n't sit them directly on the base of the pond , where the filter will soon become clogged with sediment . |
| 24 | Then come some ear-splitting explosions ( do n't sit near the entrance ) after which most on stage are dead . |
| 25 | Whatever some think , we do n't sit back . |
| 26 | Whatever some think , we do n't sit back . |
| 27 | Having finished a job , they do n't sit around enjoying the results — it 's on to the next . |
| 28 | In the dog 's mind , the association is purely negative : ‘ If I do n't sit , I receive a whack ’ . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | They talk about it as if that 's such a long period , and yet it seems like yesterday when my last one came out , but you do n't realise it 's that long ; you do n't sit round watching the calendar . |