Example sentences of "he would sit " in BNC.
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| 1 | Me and him 'd sit and eat from half past six |
| 2 | Then he 'd sit for a while , occasionally glancing at the figure next to him , until at last he 'd lean towards the other 's ear . |
| 3 | his beard and everything to a T. He 'd sit at the top of the table , have his stiff white serviette tucked into his waistcoat , and he 's lifted that carving knife and fork until — you sat there and you never said a word . |
| 4 | Now he 'd sit and stare at those same walls made transparent by all the lights left on at night . |
| 5 | From his local library he got photocopies of the maps of his district for 1811 , 1843 and 1871 ; he 'd sit there and try to work out how the changes in the maps related to the view at night ; where the darkness of rookeries , courts and tenements had been replaced with the darkness of lampless parks and public gardens . |
| 6 | Pitt remembers that as a little boy attending church he 'd sit cowering in the pew , afraid the preacher would ask him to come up and give the benediction . |
| 7 | When we were naughty he 'd give Fred the strap but he 'd sit me on the mantelpiece to make me mind my manners . |
| 8 | From seven in the morning he 'd sit there with the thing pressed to his ear ; to preserve the batteries and to avoid alarming the guards , we always set it at the lowest volume . |
| 9 | If she was out he 'd sit on her front step and wait until she returned , or he 'd walk around and try again later . |
| 10 | Sometimes he 'd sit and look at it , and his eyes would sting with the tears of despair . |
| 11 | It was a shed hand actually , he did n't , was n't responsible for cash although he helped the cashier and er , I well remember this erm in those days the conductor used to either run into depot with the bus or he 'd get relief on the Cornhill , he walked down to the depot carrying his cash in his cash bag and then he 'd sit in the paying in room and he 'd laboriously cam carried out his cash , piling the pennies into stacks , the ha'pennies , the tokens , the sixpences , every denomination . |
| 12 | Gabrielle recalled , ‘ Hour after hour , he 'd sit stuffing cushions . |
| 13 | When I was a trainee my deputy fresh foods went it with me , and like he 'd sit there and he 'd say right this is how you do it at first and then he 'd let me do some and well I 'd do them and he 'd say why have you done that and I 'd tell him and then he 'd let me do it |
| 14 | They 're just pure fucking power and it 's it 's He 'd sit there and vroom |
| 15 | ‘ If he was he would sit down at the negotiating table with us . ’ |
| 16 | Today he would sit in a think-tank , cosseted by secretaries and flattered by a stream of calls from talk-show producers . |
| 17 | He would sit down next to a woman who already had her own full glass in front of her . |
| 18 | When he came out , he thought , he would sit in the driver 's seat and allow himself a daydream . |
| 19 | He would sit or kneel until his body ached , picking and stroking in his efforts to please her . |
| 20 | A man who was very friendly with another , or his senior kinsmen , could adopt a more expository technique : he would sit facing him and take his left hand ; as he made his points he would take his friend 's little finger , move it away from the others and hold it : ‘ first … ‘ then the next finger : ‘ second … ‘ ; until he had moved the digits all to one side , like beads on an abacus . |
| 21 | Taking a carpet needle or a dentist 's pick he would sit on the stones for hours at a time prising small fossils from particles of rock he instinctively knew concealed them . |
| 22 | Modi 's drink was wine , she said , absinthe when he could afford it ; and every night he would sit beside Nina at the Rotonde and draw while she watched him . |
| 23 | He would sit slumped on a seat near a bar or a café waiting for her . |
| 24 | He would sit there all day doing this , sleeping sometimes in his chair but never tuning off , trying to make all these pieces of television fit together in some way . |
| 25 | As one insider put it , ‘ In the Cabinet he would sit there glowering and saying practically nothing . |
| 26 | In the evenings he would sit on his bed beating old tins into strange shapes with a hammer . |
| 27 | He would sit by the little fire he had built underneath it , watching the drops of spirit trickle out of the tubes into bottles partially filled with apricot jam . |
| 28 | On those nights , he would sit up and light a candle . |
| 29 | He would sit at the head of the long table , the various amounts were packed in white paper with the name of the recipient on each . |
| 30 | He would sit bolt upright , wearing a top hat which was unusual headgear for the Salisbury of the ‘ twenties . |