Example sentences of "he sit down [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ He made his way along the road until a colleague told him to sit down on the pavement . |
2 | He slung his cloak of feathers over the staff and Scathach helped him to sit down in the slight shelter that this garment offered . |
3 | I ca n't see him sitting down for a quiet civilized three cornered discussion . ’ |
4 | I helped him sit down on the one centre thwart and arranged his legs as comfortably as possible , Harry cursing and wincing by turns . |
5 | You know , she made him sit down in the middle in front of everybody you see |
6 | The carer stands with her legs on either side of the patient 's knees , places her hands under the patient 's seat , pulls his body-weight forward and in one movement lifts his pelvis and pivots him so that he sits down onto the chair . |
7 | " Andrew is a very complex character as a man , but when he 's composing , he 's just like anybody else — he sits down at the piano looking for the tune , " explains Black . |
8 | if you like the germ of the idea of the poem is alive in his mind because he sits down at the page thinking I 'm going to write a poem . |
9 | And so quickly he makes his way to the gate of the city as we 've said , and he gets this man he sits down with the te with the te , with the ten elders who would be witnesses and the kinsman arrives . |
10 | Likeable , cordial , he sits down in a chair facing her husband and herself and proceeds to converse with them . |
11 | I gesture ( I imagine ) towards a chair on the other side of my desk and he sits down in an attitude which suggests that he intends to stay for rather more than a minute , and rather less than half an hour . |
12 | I saw him play on Sunday and to be perfectly honest had he sat down in the middle of the field I reckon he 'd have had a bigger influence on the game . |
13 | He sat down across the table from Gabriel , thinking what to say . |
14 | Then he sat down with a thump , his legs sticking straight out in front of him . |
15 | He sat down with a crash and Ingram got shakily to his feet . |
16 | She watched covertly as he sat down with a drink on the opposite side of the room from her and then proceeded carefully to avoid her eye , by turning to talk to the person seated on the sofa beside him . |
17 | Then he sat down with a cup of coffee . |
18 | He sat down with a sigh , rubbing one hand over his eyes . |
19 | Maurice , in the way of business , knew too many , rather than too few , people , but when he imagined living without friends , he sat down with the whisky in the dark . |
20 | There he sat down with the guards keeping himself warm by the fire . |
21 | He sat down for a few moments to consider his position . |
22 | He sat down at a table of one of the outdoor cafés in the square and ordered a glass of wine . |
23 | Ruth grinned at him as he sat down at a cane table , making sure he was under the bright green awning that hung over the balcony and not a sliver of sun was on the bare parts of his body . |
24 | He sat down at the kitchen table and picked up the hacksaw . |
25 | He sat down at the desk and dialled Stuart Baxter 's private number . |
26 | When his illness was at the active stage , he was very particular about keeping his own utensils separate from everyone else 's , and would joke about it , saying as he sat down at the table , ‘ Make way for the leper . ’ |
27 | He began to walk towards the Monument in the glare of the headlights , then he sat down at the stone table and beckoned . |
28 | When he had finished his chores he sat down at the table and copied out ‘ I am William Beech ’ over and over again until Tom , after much effort , finally persuaded him to go for a run and exercise Sammy . |
29 | He sat down at the old table by the window and put a new sheet of paper into the typewriter . |
30 | He sat down at the table now , and she pushed the bread board and the dripping towards him , saying , ‘ Want a piece of bacon ? ’ |