Example sentences of "[pron] sit there for [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | She was too shaken with sobs to risk driving so she sat there for two hours weeping her heart out while neighbours and passers-by studiously ignored her obvious distress . |
2 | The ninth bomber came out of a lightening sky at six o'clock exactly , and though she sat there for another hour , it was the last . |
3 | We sit there for some time but I keep glancing up , and gradually become terrified that the man is somehow not dead or has become a zombie and is climbing back up the shaft towards us , to push the grating up and put his already rotting hands down and grab us both by the hair . |
4 | We sit there for half an hour perhaps and log one car , a few walkers , several cows , perhaps a few ghosts . |
5 | She declared : ‘ We will not let him sit there for seven years . |