Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [adv] sit " in BNC.
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| 1 | So before you decide that you 're not worth a hundred and fifty thousand pound do actually sit down and work it out . |
| 2 | While specialist refereeing is standard practice in academic publishing , Edinburgh 's 15-member committee do not sit as specialists in their particular subjects , but discuss the reports from a broader perspective . |
| 3 | The name does n't sit very well on the tongue . |
| 4 | ( Hop bitterness does not sit well with the wheat beers ' particular style of fruitiness . |
| 5 | Hard-line street life does n't sit easily with the girls ' culture , and for all their stylish revolt , in the end the only way to belong seems to be to be part of the community of women . |
| 6 | A sturdily middle-class society does not sit easily atop political immobility ; and , indeed , Taiwan has been experimenting with reform for the past three years . |
| 7 | The volatility and their non-guaranteed status do not sit comfortably with the official line linking the two benefits . |
| 8 | But somehow , now that the 34-year-old Yuri is spending more time away from his homeland — touring with the Bolshoi to Europe , America and the Far East , starring in Sleeping Beauty , Romeo & Juliet and Swan Lake , meeting politicians and top businessmen , even being presented to royalty — that shaggy , laid-back image does n't sit so well on his broad shoulders . |
| 9 | We have shown that information does not sit in discrete reservoirs waiting to be tapped . |
| 10 | And I rang them and see if I could cancel it for the Monday and he only , the doctor does n't sit on the Monday , so I 've got |
| 11 | This conviction did not sit well either with regimental soldiering or with Whitehall . |
| 12 | The different forms of the ulterior intent do not sit happily together in s.18 : causing GBH with intent to do GBH may be more serious than causing GBH with intent to resist arrest yet the crime and punishment are the same . |
| 13 | ‘ And in the best houses master and servant do not sit drinking coffee , or anything else for that matter , together in the kitchen . |
| 14 | The Minister does not sit over the local authority , in the way that a court supervises administrative authorities , including the executive . |
| 15 | Furthermore such a construction does not sit easily with subsection ( 3 ) which preserves the common law as it existed immediately before the Act which undoubtedly gave parents an effective power of consent for all children up to the age of 21 , the then existing age of consent : see Gillick 's case [ 1986 ] A.C. 112 , 167C , per Lord Fraser of Tullybelton , and at p. 182E , per Lord Scarman . |