Example sentences of "sit [adv prt] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | She sits on a little wooden bench , and seems to be engaged in animated conversation with the empty space beside her . |
| 2 | His picture sits on a little wooden cabinet in the lounge , a young man wearing a denim jacket and a hint of a smile . |
| 3 | ‘ Sit down a minute , ’ said Simon . |
| 4 | Aggie drew in a long breath , bowed her head slightly and said , ‘ Aye , I know you did , love ; but come and sit down a minute . ’ |
| 5 | Si sit down a minute love |
| 6 | Sit down a minute . |
| 7 | Go in and sit down a sec . |
| 8 | That 's it , now sit down a minute ! |
| 9 | Sit down a minute |
| 10 | Sit down a minute . |
| 11 | Every woggle-wearing youngster who 's ever sat round a campfire knows there are four ‘ goolis ’ in their favourite chorus , Ging Gang Goo . |
| 12 | So instead , and still twenty-four , Gustave sits over a map with Du Camp and plans a monster journey to Asia . |
| 13 | Sit up a little and touch your right elbow onto your left knee and then your left elbow onto your right knee . |
| 14 | Sit up a bit . |
| 15 | Howard sits back a little on the sofa . |
| 16 | When Boyd was a child of eight , he and his father had had to sit out a tornado while visiting a German friend who had settled in Kansas . |
| 17 | For the best part of an hour Brazil produced a dainty dish to set before the Queen of the Netherlands , who may have felt that she had something better to do than sit out a sparring match in driving rain . |
| 18 | As far as the first point is concerned , there is I believe a real appeal for many people , not least on Christian grounds , in arguing that the overriding need at present in the U K is for the government , the TUC and the CBI to sit around a table and talk , so that both corporations and unions will change their behaviour and act in the public interest rather than their own self-interest . |
| 19 | As late as 1960 all of the ‘ officers ’ , as the Lord Chancellor 's legal staff were known , not officials as elsewhere in the civil service , were able to sit around a not particularly large octagonal table in the Permanent Secretary 's room at his fortnightly office meetings . |
| 20 | They called the group the Kolbitar ( coal-biters ) , an Icelandic kenning which means those who sit around a fire . |
| 21 | All participants sit around a large table . |
| 22 | Most notably the sheer agony of sitting over a blank sheet of paper when ideas just do n't come . |
| 23 | Why was the bank clerk sitting up a tree ? |
| 24 | Piggott had replaced McHargue , then sitting out a suspension , on Commanche Run in the Gordon Stakes at Goodwood , which he won by a very wide margin ; and though the stable jockey was back on board for the colt 's victory in the March Stakes on the same course , his preparation race for the St Leger , Commanche Run 's owner Ivan Allan , claiming ‘ There 's only one St Leger and only one Lester , ’ insisted that his close friend Piggott replace McHargue for the Classic . |
| 25 | For the uninitiated , this means three or more people sitting around a three-legged wooden table , hands on the table with thumbs and little fingers joined to make a circle , and asking questions to which the table would reply by tapping on the floor with one leg — two taps for yes and one for no . |
| 26 | ‘ This place is going places , ’ she predicted , as we talked sitting around a paraffin heater , the sole source of warmth at the time , the top of which was draped with Dad 's drying underpants . |
| 27 | He stood in front of ten fat men who were sitting around a table . |
| 28 | ‘ I saw myself sitting around a huge table eating supper with an assortment of generations — the way they do in all the films I 've seen about Italians . ’ |
| 29 | Clearly , it is good that the Israelis and the Palestinians are sitting around a table in Washington , and that each side is advancing ideas for the future of the occupied territories . |
| 30 | There is a penchant , almost , for resolving disputes by discussion , by sitting around a table and ironing out one 's differences . |