Example sentences of "[pron] sit [adv] [verb] [art] " 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 | ‘ I 'm not having you sit home swapping the blues with Sister Gin , ’ Dionne had told Jay . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | She sat there chose the table |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | if you sat there peeling an orange and some of the juice squirted on me , I 'd I 'd blister . |
| 9 | and er , we had to set it up here and we sit here watching the telly and they 'd sit here for hours |
| 10 | They sat there smiling a secretive smile . |
| 11 | ‘ As he sat here watching the storms , the crashing waves , the evils of the elements , what better place to plan a tale of dark mystery and murder ? |
| 12 | She did not observe Eochaid , therefore , as he sat quietly watching the King with his stepson , or hear Lulach say , smiling , ‘ You would like to shoot an apple from my head , like Palnatoke , and perhaps miss . |
| 13 | If you can imagine your front room full of concrete , erm , one minute your sat there watching the telly , the next minute your front room 's full of concrete , that is just what it was like . |