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 .
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