Example sentences of "[vb mod] [adv] [adv] sit " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I must not only sit here and endure all this I must read her account of it at the end of the day , and think of something polite to say about it before I find ways of rewriting and neutralizing it . |
| 2 | You must n't just sit there and do it love . |
| 3 | I know if I feel depressed I should n't just sit on my own , you just dwell on it : ‘ Why did I do this , why did I do that ? ’ |
| 4 | I 'd much rather sit by the pool . ’ |
| 5 | At lunch time Derek and I almost caused a riot in the dining hall , because between us we could obviously only sit at two tables at once and every table wanted us to sit with them . |
| 6 | But a king could not simply sit back and wait for people to come to him . |
| 7 | The more respectable leaders of the Catholic community could not possibly sit back and leave things to the radicals of the DHAC . |
| 8 | She meant , after ten minutes ' solemn consideration , to write that she was extremely sorry , and entirely responsible for the change of plan , but she could not now sit for him . |
| 9 | It was just floating on the surface , not wading or swimming , but unnaturally afloat ; so exhausted it could n't even sit upright . |
| 10 | When Bilal Shebib and Samir Medina came to Stoke Mandeville for treatment in 1987 , their severe spinal injuries meant they could n't even sit up . |
| 11 | You could n't just sit down in a street . |
| 12 | But she could n't just sit there and let him criticise her choice of friends . |
| 13 | It looked like a dull day outside but she could n't just sit in her room doing nothing . |
| 14 | I could n't just sit and watch them dying . ’ |
| 15 | He could n't just sit here and do nothing . |
| 16 | I never found it to be a boring job , erm if it is boring I think it 's because they 're only making it , if they make it that way and I think it 's partly due , if they , if people do talk that way then I think it 's partly due to the sort of duty systems that people work now , and erm the number of hours they work , and , and strangely for little things like the introduction of television , I think television , very nice in its way but it 's killed life on fire stations and in certain areas , cos the whole business of conversation and learning and so on has gone , people would much sooner sit nowadays in front of the television and be entertained for an evening , instead of using all the other skills and , and erm things that are offered to them . |
| 17 | She would not just sit there and let him do this to her ! |
| 18 | He would n't even sit down , in case a spider jumped out of an armchair . |
| 19 | ‘ I ca n't even sit down ! ’ |
| 20 | You ca n't just sit here . ’ |
| 21 | You 've got to think about something , thinking is very hard , you ca n't just sit all day and do it , even religious solitaries read and say prayers , when the human mind goes beyond anything perceivable there 's no proof any more . |
| 22 | But I ca n't just sit here and watch him . |
| 23 | You ca n't just sit there and munch their biscuits without a single bloody word ! |
| 24 | But it was true , what Jim said , in business you ca n't stand still , you go up or you go down , you ca n't just sit comfortably in your own 1972 executive four-bedroomed plate-glass-windowed centrally heated wall-to-wall-carpeted gadget-equipped house , with your Rover and your wife 's Mini in the two-car garage , and your pot plants in your loggia , and your electric lawn mower in the shed : you ca n't sit still and enjoy it , you ca n't call it a day and call a halt when you own it all and do n't owe anyone a penny , you have to go on and on , relentlessly onwards , juggling with larger and larger sums , owing more , paying out more , until finally perhaps the whole thing comes tumbling round your head like a pack of cards . |
| 25 | " We ca n't just sit here , Gordon . " |
| 26 | If it was n't there already , the impact of recession has spurred awareness in the corporate law sector that you ca n't just sit and wait for clients to come to your door with their next little legal exercise . |
| 27 | ‘ But you ca n't just sit at home all day . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ I ca n't just sit here stranded . ’ |
| 29 | They ca n't just sit there and saying nothing . |
| 30 | It 's because you ca n't just sit down and di if you do n't know how to spell , I ca n't spell anyway , d' you know when I did it , the student actually wrote a letter to me and to th or to the exam board car saying that this hand-writing is appalling and the spelling , it 's due to the person who was doing the amanuensing , rather th but I was marking it anyway so it did n't really matter , but they were so distressed at the handwriting that I produced . |