Example sentences of "could [adv] sit " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | As defeat followed defeat , the millions watching the world champion 's slump in form on TV could only sit and wonder . |
| 3 | I could only sit and marvel that some things are the same the world over . |
| 4 | There was nothing General Francis could do , and because of his arthritis he could only sit with any comfort on a hard chair . |
| 5 | She could only sit down and cry . |
| 6 | Stunned , Isabel could only sit there , ensnared by the caressing warmth of his mouth . |
| 7 | The ordinary German people could only sit and watch while he reduced their homes , possessions and friends to rubble and a tangled , indistinguishable mess . |
| 8 | And you could easy sit in there and in this big place that I speak about there was two sways |
| 9 | Then , I thought , we could finally sit down and take it easy . |
| 10 | just now , for instance , I could not sit & do nothing , since that only irritates my brain ; & it was then only my pipe that enabled me comfortably to read Rousseau 's ‘ Julie ; or the New Heloise ’ . |
| 11 | A third Free Presbyterian minister said : ‘ Perhaps the main reason [ for leaving the Orange Order ] was that in 1969 I was saved by the grace of God and therefore felt that I could not sit and be associated with members of the Orange and Black while they consumed alcohol in their meetings on the 12th and 13th mornings each July . ’ |
| 12 | We could not sit down and talk with him . |
| 13 | The key to disqualification lay in ‘ episcopal ordination ’ and , MacManaway having been admitted by the laying on of hands of a bishop , he could not sit . |
| 14 | She could not sit down to talk , but kept moving around the room polishing doors and furniture although they already sparkled . |
| 15 | Those proud young Scottish earls could not sit there for long . |
| 16 | All explanations , all excuses were crude and deadly , and she could not bring herself to make them , but she could not sit there either , contemplating her own slow lapse from grace . |
| 17 | I could not sit there any longer . |
| 18 | He could not sit still , and hurried up and down his small cell , gasping with terror , his eyes flashing with hate and anger . |
| 19 | But he could not sit patiently and wait for the next train , in an hour 's time . |
| 20 | But Henry noticed how thin I was , and that I was laughing too much and could not sit still . |
| 21 | We could just sit back and collect rents from an ever-decreasing number of tenants . |
| 22 | The rest of us could just sit and twiddle our thumbs and drink iced coffee . |
| 23 | But I found I could just sit down and play by ear . |
| 24 | ‘ We could be here for hours , ’ said Wilson , into whose tired brain had crept the thought that they could just sit down and have a little sleep until they were found . |
| 25 | I remember that one of us , I can not recall which , made the cynical remark that what we really wanted was a similar type of aircraft to the one that had crashed , in which the auto-pilot could be connected up with the flight recorder — then we investigators could just sit and watch the accident happen all over again . |
| 26 | Back in Hinterzarten there are festivals , spa concerts , guided walking tours , tennis classes , canoeing and mountain biking — or you could just sit in the company of delicious pastries at one of the peaceful cafés . |
| 27 | I imagined he could just sit down , perhaps at the typewriter to which he had recourse even for poetry , and produce the requisite text . |
| 28 | The house and land could just sit there and Monsieur Lemarchand 's mother could sit wherever she was and wait . |
| 29 | How he could just sit there in that silence was the hardest thing I have ever tried to figure out . |
| 30 | Well he does n't even need to say anything at all actually you could just sit down , erm and start to write a poem about what he imagines . |