Example sentences of "sit down to " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Saturday nights around 30 people sit down to a four-course SE Asian banquet . |
| 2 | Playing a Stableford of the three best individual scores , they finish about 3½ hours later and sit down to a breakfast provided by the ladies . |
| 3 | Every Sunday the family get up early for an enormous American breakfast — pancakes , ham , waffles with maple syrup , and then later on in the afternoon they all sit down to an English roast . |
| 4 | It occurred to her that most people , her former self included , would not walk away from an attack by a homicidal transvestite and sit down to a healthy breakfast . |
| 5 | Just over two million of our pupils sit down to a knife-and-fork meal at midday . |
| 6 | I feed her and get her washed and undressed and ready for bed and then these two sit down to tea . |
| 7 | ‘ The Mediterranean peoples rarely sit down to dinner much before nine . ’ |
| 8 | After the working day they sit down to supper and the master sets the tasks for the morrow : Quoth Maister — Lads , work hard I pray , Cloth mun be peark 'd next market-day , And Tom mun go tomorn to t'spinners , And Will mun seek about for t'swingers ; And Jack tomorn , by time be rising , And go t'sizing mill for sizing , And get your web and warping done That ye may get it into loom . |
| 9 | He offers no explanation , as they sit down to dinner , and Anne and Millie talk about other things . |
| 10 | When world leaders sit down to dinner at home they prefer simple fare , according to the people who cook for them . |
| 11 | In one house a family of six sit down to a meal , using three-legged chairs and chunks of masonry for seats . |
| 12 | I sit down to the table , and watch me , real men are n't like that are they ? and it locks |
| 13 | I stopped wearing Tampax ( cotton wool pricks ) , and I stopped eating meat in case the chunk of sizzling corpse I was about to sit down to had come from a male animal . |
| 14 | ‘ But it 's time to sit down to breakfast . |
| 15 | In fact , she was quietly grateful for the fact that he chose not to sit down to table with them . |
| 16 | ‘ I am not about to sit down to a meal with you , ’ she said bitingly , ‘ Nor am I — ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I did n't ask to sit down to dinner with them , I did n't ask to be ridiculed and insulted by dear , delightful Melissa ! ’ |
| 18 | Everybody sits down to tea — clients and volunteer carers . |
| 19 | ’ The Royal Oak in Keswick wins special praise — after watching horse-racing at Crow Park Green dined in company there , and had ‘ one of the best ever dinners I have sat down to in the North of England . ’ |
| 20 | It was on just such a dais as this above the feudal retainers , he supposed , that the Saxon thanes would have sat down to trenchers of roasted wild duck and suckling pig . |
| 21 | She had not sat down to breakfast , preferring to eat a handful of dry Puffkins while she sought her shoes , nor did she utter any words of affectionate farewell , not being one for dissimulation . |
| 22 | ‘ [ The eunuch ] waited until the hour Shah Jehan had sat down to dinner , ’ wrote Manucci . |
| 23 | We were just sitting down to our dinner when the chief Druid came in sight with his begging bowl and Tony got under the bed . |
| 24 | Nutty asked her , sitting down to her shepherd 's pie , cabbage and chips . |
| 25 | By the time I am sitting down to breakfast I ask myself , ‘ Where would I go ? ’ ’ |
| 26 | On the evening you then had perhaps 100 or more guests altogether sitting down to a splendid meal followed afterwards by an entertainment organised by some of the men of the congregation . |
| 27 | Sitting down to breakfast could become an expensive family business with the cost of raw cereals likely to rise — along with sugar and honey . |
| 28 | Last night , Platt said : ‘ It could go at any time , walking across the training ground or even sitting down to lunch . |
| 29 | The views are still tremendous in the Lakes , but sitting down to be surrounded by two or three belligerent sheep whose main occupation in life is to steal my cheese and pickle sandwich is about the best way of spoiling a good day out . |
| 30 | Now a compression is , pressure on the brain , caused by fracture , bleed or blood clot now if a person has been suffering from concussion and it 's gone unnoticed , that bleed could be just carrying on and on and on and it could take up to four to five days before the compression shows itself so perhaps a week later they 're sitting down to breakfast saying ooh my head hurts , now the poor wife or husband , or whoever it is does n't know about that knock on the head that they had previously , unless somebody 's told them about it mm , so your casualty now is going to have this headache and a beauty , they 're going to be confused their levels of consciousness it will deteriorate face is very hot , dry flushed the pupils will become unequal and because of the pressure breathing becomes noisy if you feel the pulse , it 's going to be slow and strong and you will get paralysis on the opposite side to the compression , what are , what are the signs and symptoms of ? |