Example sentences of "they sit [adv] and [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | AS THE plutocrats of world golf prepare to fly to Augusta for the first major championship of the season , — in some cases in their personal executive jets — it is a safe bet none of them sit back and reflect on the origins of their good fortune . |
| 2 | When we finally left the school the return journey home was even worse than the journey to school with pupils being cheeky when you told them to sit down and face the front . |
| 3 | The old Frenchman motioned for them to sit down and continue with their meal as he opened a cupboard and took out a bottle and two glasses . |
| 4 | The boatman cursed , telling them to sit down and keep still , and then , puffing and sweating , he pulled his craft out midstream through the flocks of swans who arched their wings in protest as if they owned the river . |
| 5 | Threaten their votes and they sit up and listen . |
| 6 | Yet when another child is attacked , they sit up and take notice . |
| 7 | Every Saturday they sit upstairs and do nothing , do n't even . |
| 8 | Instead , suggest that they sit quietly and listen to the discussion . |
| 9 | The tenants do n't want to be hurried into any decisions , so they sit quietly and listen . |
| 10 | ‘ Russian men are very lazy ; they sit back and wait . |
| 11 | When they think they know , they can ask one of their friends and , as soon as they guess correctly , they sit down and watch the fun as the others seek out their own identity . |
| 12 | Will they sit back and watch their dream be diluted ? |
| 13 | After a bit they sat up and watched the welcome breeze work like an animal through the silver-green barley . |
| 14 | And did they , they must have had lean times if they sat around and waited for a boat , one did n't come in some days may be . |
| 15 | When Dawn had cleared up they sat down and relaxed . |
| 16 | ‘ In my estimation the most perfect rock'n'roll band that ever existed , The Beatles , when they sat down and wrote lyrics , they were just throwing ideas around that really meant nothing , and we were the ones who , for instance , made out that Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds meant LSD . |
| 17 | They sat down and watched the lawyers . |
| 18 | The sailors stopped digging when the trench was about one foot deep , then they sat down and lit up their cigarettes , gazing around the orchard , taking not the slightest notice of the mortar team just a few yards from them . |
| 19 | They sat down and started to look through the movie tapes , Zambia interjecting the odd question here and there . |
| 20 | They sat down and talked for a short time . |
| 21 | They took him back to his own house and shut him upstairs while they sat below and deliberated what to do with him . |
| 22 | They sat upright and close against the trunk of a tree in a stand of mature woodland which had miraculously survived industrial upheavals . |
| 23 | They sat silently and listened to her footsteps fading away down the staircase . |
| 24 | Sometimes they sat together and worked , or Jeanne would play the violin whilst Modigliani painted . |
| 25 | Well that 'll make them sit up and think that 's for sure |
| 26 | That 'd make them sit up and realise they ca n't get away with desecrating any bit of wild country they can get their hands on … ‘ |
| 27 | ‘ We wo n't let them sit back and talk amongst themselves , as if everything in the garden is rosy , ’ she explained earnestly . |
| 28 | This collection of 40 , hour-long videos covers every year from 1930 to 1969 — just choose a year that means something to your loved one and let them sit back and capture the atmosphere with news , special events and TV clips of the time . |
| 29 | Most of the scrappy first half saw them sit back and prevent the dominant but over-elaborate Hearts from scoring . |
| 30 | The three of them sat down and watched the fantastic firework display on the airfield that they had caused . |