Example sentences of "[pron] sit down [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I sit down at this desk with a ledger . |
| 2 | There 's still a couple of beat up chairs there and I sit down in one of them . |
| 3 | " Watch that one , " they said as I sat down on one of the armchairs , " the seat falls through . " |
| 4 | will you sit down for two more minutes . |
| 5 | Mum will you sit down for five minutes . |
| 6 | She sat down on one of the red spoon-shaped chairs in the station foyer and placed her feet neatly together on the black and white tiles , staring down at the shoes Nurse Rose had so gushingly admired . |
| 7 | She sat down on one of the grey bucket seats to calm herself , to get her breath , but instead she began to cry . |
| 8 | She sat down on one of the seats , and waited for the man in the woollen hat to come up , see her , and check . |
| 9 | She sat down in one of the box pews to the rear of the nave . |
| 10 | Once inside the door , however , she found that her leg was still too stiff and tingling to move properly , so she sat down in one of the pale , bentwood breakfast chairs … |
| 11 | Can we sit down like that Tim ? |
| 12 | We sat down to smoked salmon in herbs and large king prawns , followed by tender beef olives with a selection of the freshest vegetables . |
| 13 | Because I was at home , we sat down for two hours and talked it through . |
| 14 | going for a that was brilliant I got and that , and I tried , I had a whole box of er , erm , thing is , when you hold a thousand rounds of ammunition , I got given about two thirds of this box all for myself , so I 'm there for about three hours before the exercise I had and then put the rest in the then we sat down for another hour filling them up again , superb , we had loads of bung in the windows grenades |
| 15 | He urged her to sit down on one of the hard , gilded sofas for a moment . |
| 16 | They sat down at one of the tables . |
| 17 | Graham asked as they sat down at one of the few vacant tables . |
| 18 | They sat down on some chairs by the window , and looked out across the Rivoli Gardens . |
| 19 | They sat down on hard , knobbly ground , sparsely covered with grass , in the grudging shade of a withered tree . |
| 20 | Ah , well , perhaps the steel was pushing ahead with renewed vigour to meet some condition beyond which was not conspicuous to the ‘ boomers ’ , so they sat down to another period of waiting . |
| 21 | Anyone sitting down for extensive periods ( as we all had to do in our school days ) would have to tense many of the body 's muscles in order to sit up straight . |
| 22 | He sat down at last to silence , but as a man fulfilled : the tutorial was over . |
| 23 | He sat down on one of the bare wooden steps . |
| 24 | Exhausted , he sat down on one of the steps leading from the bathroom and leaned his brow against the cool wall . |
| 25 | He began to feel rather uneasy as he sat down on one of the hard , rexine-covered arm-chairs . |
| 26 | He sat down on one of the chairs and stared up at her with an accusing , plaintive face . |
| 27 | I led him into the billiard room where I stoked the fire while he sat down in one of the leather chairs and began to remove his shoes . |