Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] not sit " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do not sit and do that with kids . |
| 2 | Now Vinnie will realise why we did not sit down in the pub . |
| 3 | They did not sit on the floor . |
| 4 | As the result they do not sit very effectively over a bolt-hole . |
| 5 | He did not sit in Richard Cromwell 's Parliament ( 1659 ) , where , however , he was assailed for gross abuses as major-general in Northamptonshire . |
| 6 | He continued to serve on commissions and committees , notably helping to draft the New Model Army ordinance ( 1645 ) , chairing the committee on church government ( 1645–6 ) , and agreeing to try the king , although he did not sit on the trial commission ( 1648 ) . |
| 7 | He did not sit in any subsequent Parliament . |
| 8 | He did not sit in Parliament after Pride 's Purge in December 1648 but took his seat after the readmission of the secluded members in February 1660 , and was re-elected to the Convention Parliament ( April 1660 ) . |
| 9 | From 1673 to 1677 he was MP for Newark , but he did not sit . |
| 10 | He was educated at Eton and Trinity College , Cambridge , where he did not sit for a degree . |
| 11 | He had never before been accused of stealing and it did not sit well with him . |
| 12 | It did not sit in the hallowed tombs of Stormont or Leinster House , but went out to the border areas , saw the problems and listened to those involved . |
| 13 | He speaks hastily to her and flies to our table , where he does not sit but squats in front of me . |
| 14 | This is unexceptionable in itself , but it does not sit easily with the views expressed by the House of Lords in the Tameside case . |
| 15 | It does not sit easily with that denial of consultation for the hon. Member for Alyn and Deeside now to criticise my right hon. Friends and myself for introducing fair and straightforward proposals for a council tax . |