Example sentences of "just sit [adv prt] " in BNC.
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1 | But as to advice — well , do n't just sit around waiting for the telephone to ring . |
2 | ‘ We 'd just sit around a table and write it together . |
3 | If , when you arrive at the interview you find you are early or there is a delay , do n't just sit around allowing tension to build up inside you . |
4 | We 'd just sit around in the front parlour of my house and smoke Typhoo Tea in my dad 's pipe . |
5 | Do you just sit around and wait for inspiration ? ’ |
6 | Perhaps he can just sit around and score . ’ |
7 | We 'll just sit around watching the men . |
8 | Graham said : ‘ I am not the sort of person who can just sit around reading . |
9 | Yet actors here think they can just sit around and wait for jobs . |
10 | Mum , would you just sit up there with the bike like a twist bike . |
11 | We could just sit back and collect rents from an ever-decreasing number of tenants . |
12 | If you use the future tense — telling your subconscious ‘ I will soon be at peace with myself — it will just sit back and wait . |
13 | ‘ I do n't just sit back . |
14 | I really can not come to terms with the fact that I am … there 's lots of interesting work to do — there was in the job I did — and I want so much to identify with that rather than just sit back here and say ‘ I 'm a housewife and I 'm happy ’ … because I could n't be . |
15 | We 've done everything we had to do , really , and we can just sit back and watch it all now . ’ |
16 | So , do n't just sit back , put pen to paper ( or finger to key ) and send your questions to any member of the editorial team . |
17 | ‘ Do you think we should just sit back and take it ? ’ asked Andrus . |
18 | ‘ And you think Cawthorne will just sit back and take this ? ’ |
19 | Let's just sit back and consolidate for a while . |
20 | Speaking at the launch of the coalition , the Chairman , Professor John Moxham , said : ‘ We doctors can no longer just sit by and watch this tragedy , under the guise of acceptable promotion … |
21 | Larry Lonik , author of ‘ The Curious Morel ’ , tells the tale of a man in Williamsburg who knew a special spot : ‘ People would try to follow him , but he 'd just sit down under a tree and wait them out . |
22 | ‘ No , thanks , Franca , dear , let's just sit down and be quiet together . ’ |
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 | Angela said : ‘ We have made it clear more than once that this matter could be sorted out if they would just sit down and talk , family to family . |
26 | ‘ So let's just sit down and be quiet , shall we ? ’ |
27 | I would come back into the house feeling so humiliated that I would just sit down and cry and then the baby would start crying so I had to stop . |
28 | I 'll just sit down for a moment . ’ |
29 | You could n't just sit down in a street . |
30 | I imagined he could just sit down , perhaps at the typewriter to which he had recourse even for poetry , and produce the requisite text . |