Example sentences of "[verb] sit [adv] and [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kylie and Blamey were forces to wait agonising days before the trio agreed to sit down and talk about writing a song . |
| 2 | I noticed that the Barwick men took no chances this time ; as the pole lay in the field it was wired up to an electronic burglar alarm system , but they still took it in turns to sit up and keep an eye on it . |
| 3 | Or do you want to sit there and ruminate a bit while while you have a look see what you 've got ? |
| 4 | I think actually somebody needs to sit down and think |
| 5 | When a highly qualified professional makes such a dire prediction , one has to sit up and take notice . |
| 6 | Rostov tried to sit up and found that he could not . |
| 7 | ‘ But at some point I will need to sit down and figure out if I want to make a real career shift into another area , such as politics . |
| 8 | I want to sit here and get stinking drunk and forget . ’ |
| 9 | When I want to sit down and have a cigarette I have n't got any . |
| 10 | Well I hope she 'll be interested enough to , but , not really before she 's six , cos I asked him last couple of times ago , he said , what sort of age , cos obviously the size of the hands comes into it , they ca n't do too much , but he said he would n't consider before six and you ough t 'a have to take the parents into consideration , of a child that age you got ta have a parent who 's prepared to sit there and make sure the child does what he 's set them to do , because , oh Amy , you not getting any out of that . |
| 11 | tried to do joined writing , apparently we are supposed to do that as teachers , actually said got ta put their primary on primary education , it says sit down and write a poem in joined up writing and look at your own writing and before you try to teach it to children make sure that you know |
| 12 | Framed her own mind in Adam 's will and learnt to sit patiently and wait for whatever happened next . |
| 13 | By the time she 'd sat up and pushed the dishevelled hair out of her eyes he was behind the wheel , and the car was moving forward . |
| 14 | some Babycham and she said they 'd sat there and drank a bottle of brandy and Babycham all night she said . |
| 15 | When they seen us they knew we 'd come from the prison and used to sit back and grab their handbags sort of thing . |
| 16 | cos I never entertain none of them , I 'd just used to sit there and laugh , I never spoke to David from the day everybody left . |
| 17 | They 'd got to sit up and lean against their pillows and their sheets had got to be turned down . |
| 18 | Has somebody got to sit here and listen to all this rubbish ? |
| 19 | Have you used all them Ladybird like er matching numbers now in the scho in the schools and that , and you 've actually got to sit there and count them , so . |
| 20 | All of us , including the critics , have got to sit down and read three hundred pages line by line , to make final judgments , but we 're looking at a programme there of the next decade . |
| 21 | Everybody 's got to sit down and talk eventually and something has got to be worked out and that 's got to happen we know that . |
| 22 | But now everybody does it and I 'm not going to sit around and say , ‘ Oh yeah , well that was my shit and everybody copied my sound . ’ |
| 23 | I 'm not going to sit back and watch TV . |
| 24 | That agile mind was not going to sit back and take things easy even if her body had no option but to obey the doctor 's orders . |
| 25 | ‘ We are not going to sit back and accept this . ’ |
| 26 | I mean basically you say the bloke says we 're going to sit down and make a decision tonight |
| 27 | Erm and you might want to do that formally , you might a if you have pre-meetings with some of these people you might want to say that you are going to sit down and talk it through with me in advance ar and are they happy about that ? |
| 28 | She 's not going to sit down and laugh and joke over you with anyone else . |
| 29 | Now — are we going to get on with planning this party , or are you just going to sit there and make stupid remarks ? ’ |
| 30 | Are you just going to sit there and stare out of the bloody window ? ’ |