Example sentences of "sit [adv] 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 | Mann tries to combine the desperation of their plight with a more lyrical look at Indian respect for struggle and death , all of which sits together a smidgeon uneasily until the final reel . |
| 12 | because erm there will be oh what was I it 's alright I was concentrating said you can put the handbrake on these set of traffic lights if you like because you might be sat here a while and your foot will ache you know ? |
| 13 | Every woggle-wearing youngster who 's ever sat round a campfire knows there are four ‘ goolis ’ in their favourite chorus , Ging Gang Goo . |
| 14 | So instead , and still twenty-four , Gustave sits over a map with Du Camp and plans a monster journey to Asia . |
| 15 | And so if you sit just a little bit further forward , that 's fine . |
| 16 | I think Doctor only sits once a month , and |
| 17 | Sit up a little and touch your right elbow onto your left knee and then your left elbow onto your right knee . |
| 18 | Sit up a bit . |
| 19 | Howard sits back a little on the sofa . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | But if you sit here a moment , I will comb out your hair , and you may keep the comb . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | They called the group the Kolbitar ( coal-biters ) , an Icelandic kenning which means those who sit around a fire . |
| 26 | All participants sit around a large table . |
| 27 | I stop my crying and just sit there a bit . |
| 28 | When the nurse indicated that she should go in , she turned to Emma , saying , ‘ Sit there a minute ; I want to have a word with him first . ’ |
| 29 | Bill sits there a moment . |
| 30 | Until then she had managed to keep the tears from falling , but now they overflowed , and , unable to sit there a moment longer , she jumped up , stifling her sobs in her hand as she rushed from the room . |