Example sentences of "[pron] sit for a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 And in the fourth year I tend to do them an evaluation sheet , where I write down lots of questions about the project they have just done , and maybe get them to sit for a double lesson and write about the things they experienced and found out …
2 Upstream , through the gorge known as the Wachau , runs one of the prettiest stretches of the river and I sat for a pleasant hour on its embankment watching the swallows skim its waters .
3 Afterwards I sat for a long time trying to reconcile myself to these new ideas .
4 I sat for a long while , clutching the unfinished poem , gazing beyond it .
5 Legislative power is vested in a unicameral National Assembly which sits for a five-year term and consists of six appointed senators and 15 popularly elected representatives .
6 She sat for a long while , until her limbs became cold and stiff and her mind numb with tiredness and misery .
7 They sat for a long time in silence watching the Atlantic crash down on the empty shore .
8 They sat for a long time on brown plastic seats in a white corridor .
9 When he came back in the evening he sat for a long time gazing out across the V-shaped valley leading south .
10 And he sat for a long time in a melancholy reverie as the ants continued to drift down , thinking of the futility of all endeavour .
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