Example sentences of "[pron] sit [adv prt] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | I sit down in the grey plastic chair in the featureless room with McDunn and a man from the Welsh squad ; a big blond brindle guy in a tight grey suit ; he has a rugby player 's neck and steely eyes and huge hands that are clasped on the table , lying there like a mace of flesh and bone . |
2 | When I arrived at the Demob Centre , I sat around in a bare hall for what seemed like a couple of hours , with two or three hundred other Waafs , and we stared at each other without interest . |
3 | ‘ Jenny and I sat up until the early hours chatting . ’ |
4 | For a long time I sat out on the crumbling turf , with the blue distances below , and warm sun lying over this lovely autumn land . |
5 | I sat down to a great Conservative cheer and then Michael Meacher had his opportunity . |
6 | In the shopping centre , I was gratified to see my name up on the Day 's Attractions board , and I sat down at a prepared place by the side of the stage . |
7 | I sat down at the little table , as well I might . |
8 | I sat down on the only patch of turf |
9 | I sat down on the wooden bed . |
10 | I sat down with the Financial Times and tried to count how many people were actually smoking underneath no-smoking signs . |
11 | After a while I sat down in a secret place by the Cherwell and fell to musing about how I had once myself aspired to Oxford , how one of my lecturers at Edinburgh had urged me to go on to read for a B.Litt. there , but of course the war had put an end to any such ambitions . |
12 | With a second cup in my hand , I sat down in an upright chair opposite my hostess . |
13 | I sat down in the long grass , puzzled to understand my weakness . |
14 | So I sat down in the warm , and ate the man 's breakfast . |
15 | When you lower to the start position , do not touch the board ; if you do this , or if you sit up past the vertical position , then the abdominals will have a slight rest . |
16 | Just wait until the last day , when you come , you sit down on the fucking stool and each leg goes like that ! |
17 | When you sit down for a wee while . |
18 | She sits down in a quiet room , provided at public expense , and begins to lecture a man who is shortly to be found dying by the dustbins . |
19 | Do you sit down with a blank sheet of paper and think ‘ I 'm going to write a poem on the subject of windows , or bible stories ’ ? |
20 | The guy who sat out on the Common , waiting for the spacemen to come . |
21 | After a moment , she sat up in the cluttered bed and regarded him in mock annoyance . |
22 | Her pulse rate had slowed to somewhere near normal ; she sat back in the creaking wooden chair in a deliberate effort to appear relaxed , and returned his smile . |
23 | She sat back in the white plastic chair , fanning herself with her napkin . |
24 | ‘ You promise ? ’ mother said , a slight stitching of her brows as she sat back in the ladder-backed seat the only indication that she might not entirely believe me . |
25 | She sat back in the large , embracing armchair and took another mouthful of the splendid Spanish omelette . |
26 | She sat down on a modern sofa in cream and chrome and surveyed the room . |
27 | She sat down on the low wall . |
28 | She sat down on the battered settle and opened the letter . |
29 | She sat down on the other side of the desk . |
30 | Placing the night-light against the wall she sat down on the top stair , humping the eiderdown high over her shoulders and gazing into the darkness . |