Example sentences of "[pron] sit [adv] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I sit there repeating a wish in my head like a child . |
| 2 | And then they decide , found out they had to put it in the fridge for twenty four hours , so there was I sitting there expecting a biscuit , I did n't get one . |
| 3 | Yet he was unwilling to take leave , treating his engagement as settled , without some more conventional glance in that direction than he could find an opening for in the manner of the large , affable lady who sat there drawing a pair of soiled gants de Suede through a fat , jewelled hand and , at once pressing and gliding , repeated over and over everything but the thing he would have liked to hear ( 2 ) . |
| 4 | And she thought , as she sat there translating a piece of Polyeucte , that if ever she could find the personages for the rest of her tragedy , then her happiness would be complete . |
| 5 | Then she sat down to write a letter to an old friend , the editor of her chosen journal . |
| 6 | As Nancy slid the first tape into her video machine I settled down to watch her at work , but , throughout , the advice offered me on the screen was interspersed with more from the sofa next to me , where she sat eagerly adding a tumult of tips to those already being relayed . |
| 7 | The goods are sent on by large waggons , and meet us at Loch Crinan ; while the ‘ Cygnet ’ or the ‘ Plover ’ puffs along right merrily , and we sit down to have a quiet look at the bonnie bits of scenery that are everywhere meeting us . |
| 8 | I remember in the terrible winter of 1962 – 63 we sat out eating a picnic lunch when everybody across the harbour was frozen to death . |
| 9 | They sat there smiling a secretive smile . |