Example sentences of "[pron] sit there [prep] [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 | Then she sat there like that . |
| 4 | The other thing I wondered when I was watching the video , you sat there at one stage , while I was writing and I thought , I thought , what are you thinking ? |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | We sit there for half an hour perhaps and log one car , a few walkers , several cows , perhaps a few ghosts . |
| 7 | As we sat there in that noisy , smoke-filled place I was deeply conscious of his physical presence , so close and so disturbingly animal , almost electric in its restrained , pulsing sexuality . |
| 8 | She declared : ‘ We will not let him sit there for seven years . |
| 9 | Why did he sit there in that most sociable of settings , solitary and apparently with neither need nor wish for company ? |
| 10 | And Stuart sat down in , because they got these wooden old chairs , have n't they with arms on them and he he sat there like this with his arm and went , I said Stuart whatever 's that on your arm ? |
| 11 | I says no I ca n't , he says it 's not very far , I said it 's not the distance that bothers me it 's the fact that you want us to sit there till eleven o'clock at night and not get paid for it , he says yeah but if you want to say something , I says I 'd say something if I thought we 'd be backed on it , but we 're not , oh I 'm not going anywhere to be if I 'm not being paid |
| 12 | ‘ I usually travel with an assistant from my management company and she does the same so we look a fine pair , both of us sitting there with dozens of jars in front of us , but it does the trick ; it takes my mind off the fact that we are 30,000 feet in the air at the time . |