Example sentences of "[pron] sit [adv prt] [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 | So I sit in between these two men and I |
| 4 | I sat up at that , knowing what was coming . |
| 5 | " Watch that one , " they said as I sat down on one of the armchairs , " the seat falls through . " |
| 6 | ‘ Can you sit up at all ? ’ he asked . |
| 7 | will you sit down for two more minutes . |
| 8 | Mum will you sit down for five minutes . |
| 9 | — Can you sit in on another teacher using it ? |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | She sat down on one of the grey bucket seats to calm herself , to get her breath , but instead she began to cry . |
| 12 | She sat down on one of the seats , and waited for the man in the woollen hat to come up , see her , and check . |
| 13 | She sat down in one of the box pews to the rear of the nave . |
| 14 | 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 … |
| 15 | If you favoured sweating it out , you sat around on tiered benches and chatted with your friends until you started dissolving into steam , and then got yourself scraped down by a slave with a sort of sickle thing called a strigil , and massaged , and oiled and perfumed , or if you were a real fanatic you probably went straight from the hot room to take a cold plunge , like sauna addicts rolling in the snow . |
| 16 | Can we sit down like that Tim ? |
| 17 | We sat down to smoked salmon in herbs and large king prawns , followed by tender beef olives with a selection of the freshest vegetables . |
| 18 | Because I was at home , we sat down for two hours and talked it through . |
| 19 | 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 |
| 20 | He urged her to sit down on one of the hard , gilded sofas for a moment . |
| 21 | They sit up with disproportionate interest . ) |
| 22 | and they absconded it , and the dog has n't a hope in hell and also the ones you get for the kids , when you sit in them they sit up like little chairs do n't they ? |
| 23 | Here is William Wheeler , the last great encyclopediast of ants ( 1910 ) , describing Amazon ants at home : they sit about in stolid idleness , or pass the long hours begging the slaves for food or cleaning themselves and burnishing their ruddy armour . |
| 24 | They sat on in friendly silence until the laughter began , whereat Lydia 's glass shook beneath her hand . |
| 25 | He motioned Ho to keep still and they sat on in cramped discomfort . |
| 26 | They sat down at one of the tables . |
| 27 | Graham asked as they sat down at one of the few vacant tables . |
| 28 | They sat down on some chairs by the window , and looked out across the Rivoli Gardens . |
| 29 | They sat down on hard , knobbly ground , sparsely covered with grass , in the grudging shade of a withered tree . |
| 30 | 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 . |