Example sentences of "[adv] sit [adv] and [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No , it 's just somewhere to sit in and look out at the en , er the ships and boats going by . |
| 2 | A tacit collusion is set up between narrator and reader not to take the novel too solemnly , but rather to sit back and enjoy the show . |
| 3 | I very rarely sit down and have a meal now . |
| 4 | ‘ So sit down and have a drink , Zlorf , and let's talk about this sensibly . |
| 5 | So sit back and enjoy a weekly helping of fine music in the relaxed atmosphere of our Square Cat Bistro , with different artistes each Monday . |
| 6 | Here comes summer … time for the two of you to slip away for that special holiday , so sit back and enjoy those dream destinations that make you wish you were there … cruise the Caribbean 's hot spots on Le Ponant and graceful and stylish luxury yacht … take time off a tour of the Greek Islands and enjoy the special mixture of sun , beauty and history … party 'till dawn on Majorca or discover more secluded spots on this and the other Balearic Islands … beat the crowds to the tiny Caribbean island of Anguilla and relish the silky feel of warm sand slipping between your toes … if time is short cross the Channel to France and the pretty countryside of Picardy … or rediscover England on a relaxing barge built for two … we also look at romantic hotels in Britain , perfect for first nights , short breaks or indulgent weekends … |
| 7 | He added : ‘ People from all over the country , people we have never heard of , have been good enough to sit down and write lengthy letters , to send flowers at great expense to a boy , just saying Tim Parry , Warrington , Cheshire , and it is getting to the house . |
| 8 | Or you might be better sitting down and ordering yourself a drink : the waiter may be gone some time . |
| 9 | ‘ You 'd better sit down and tell me what you want me to do . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I think , Mr Crumwallis , ’ said Septimus Coffin , marching in , ‘ that we 'd better sit down and have a really good talk . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | These are impressive achievements , and ones the British can only sit back and envy . |
| 13 | Under its agreement with IBM Corp , Intel Corp can only sit back and watch while IBM stuffs its versions of the Intel iAPX-86 microprocessor family into boards and sells them on the OEM market , and yesterday , IBM 's Electronic Card Assembly & Test Plant in Charlotte , North Carolina announced contracts totalling $344m to manufacture personal computer planar boards for two California firms : Eteq Microsystems Inc in Milpitas and that new company , Alaris Inc , just formed by those Everexes in Fremont ( CI No 2,121 ) . |
| 14 | As the second round of European matches gets into full swing tonight , Rangers can only sit back and watch after tumbling out to a last minute goal from Levski Sofia . |
| 15 | I suppose when they string together every possible Celtic cliché , you can only sit back and submit knowing that the stereotype is so overplayed as to be utterly ridiculous , yet at the same time resenting the perpetration of it . |
| 16 | She could only sit down and cry . |
| 17 | All I do I got out sort of the sort of about eight thirty and then I , I 'd work to about half three and all I 'd wan na do is , we , we 'd fucking , we 'd set up the cable then we 'd all sit down and do nothing while the old erm , the M O D people had obviously it , and then they tell us to take it down and move it and we move it and set it up again , its like out of a , out of a seven hour day , we 'd only work about three or four , like here . |
| 18 | Could our bodies glow red when we only have a day left so we could all sit down and wait comfortably and then when we snuff it we could just disappear . |
| 19 | In 1972 Hollywood suddenly sat up and took notice of him again when he had two consecutive hits , Last Tango in Paris and The Godfather , for which he won the Oscar for Best Actor . |
| 20 | I was beginning to think that the staring match would never stop when he suddenly sat down and began to finger some papers on the top of his desk . |
| 21 | She said , ‘ You just sit here and think about what you 've done . |
| 22 | Cos even when I , I 've been to see like , you know ones I just sit there and tend to go , yeah . |
| 23 | ‘ For pity 's sake just sit there and try not to do anything silly for the time it takes me to fill two bowls with cawl . ’ |
| 24 | We 're not picking on you we 're just trying to get a conversation going here like , but it 's very hard when you just sit there and say nothing . |
| 25 | Just sit there and say nothing , and just see what happens . |
| 26 | Just sit there and look out , that 's what you look onto . |
| 27 | Just sit there and do anything , do a bit of fishing . |
| 28 | So just sit back and wait while I disappear into the studio . |
| 29 | They just sit back and relax . |
| 30 | Just sit back and take it easy while I think . ’ |