Example sentences of "have sit [adv] and [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When a highly qualified professional makes such a dire prediction , one has to sit up and take notice . |
| 2 | By the time she 'd sat up and pushed the dishevelled hair out of her eyes he was behind the wheel , and the car was moving forward . |
| 3 | some Babycham and she said they 'd sat there and drank a bottle of brandy and Babycham all night she said . |
| 4 | Look , you 'll have to sit here and wait for me , all right ? |
| 5 | In that case , big firms and their insurers would have to sit up and take notice or pay the consequences . |
| 6 | Ingleston , if we were offered a King 's ransom , we might have to sit down and think about it , but it is very much a long , long shot ! |
| 7 | I see this as a positive element because here for once the client 's gon na have to sit down and produce a specification |
| 8 | We do n't have to sit there and take whatever we get . |
| 9 | If it had been a Peter Reid type , someone who battles and fights his way through every game as if his very life depended on it , I might have sat up and took a little bit more notice . |
| 10 | I would have liked to have had more departmental meetings where we could all have sat down and discussed it . |
| 11 | But to have to sit here and pretend interest in an endless parade of painted mannequins wearing bored looks and the ridiculous fashions he 'd already glimpsed in the huge sketches plastered on the wall as decorations — Nicolo shifted again . |
| 12 | To have to sit there and take his abuse was like being bound hand and foot to a torturer 's chair . |
| 13 | Peter says : ‘ I would like them to think if it was their brother , if it was them that had to sit there and watch their brother die in their arms , see how they would feel . |
| 14 | We just had to sit there and ride through the flak . |
| 15 | The local people who were unemployed just had to sit there and look out of their windows at others doing work they desperately wanted . ’ |
| 16 | But he was shaking so badly that he had to sit down and have a rest . |
| 17 | So everything 's there , printing presses repro separation houses , sheet film , computer set up and Apple Macs and everything is there , it 's actually a very impressive set up erm , the Queen Margaret 's course , I 'm slightly dubious about I once had a colleague I 'm going back a decade who had been employed on the basis of doing the communications course at Queen Margaret I think , and it turned out that it was n't communications as we understood it , it was n't our sort of communications P R newspapers and things like that , it was communications on a much broader , broader front so it did n't actually fit in to the world of P R and what happened was I then had to sit down and train this woman from scratch and get rid of a lot of the preconceived notions that she had come in with she had brought from Queen Margaret 's College . |
| 18 | This is the first time I think we 've sat down and done bugger all for ages ! |
| 19 | ‘ It would n't have surprised me if he had sat up and shouted ‘ Geronimo ’ as he went , ’ he said . |
| 20 | She had sat up and stretched out a hand to lift the receiver when she paused . |
| 21 | Ace had sat up and discarded the ice-pack so that he could face her . |
| 22 | George had sat outside and listened . |
| 23 | If she had sat down and explained things to me , I do n't care how long it took , it would have been something . |
| 24 | He could remember what a flurry Martha Pritchett used to get into when Lady Debrace stopped in for a cup of tea , and how afterwards she would tell them proudly how her ladyship had sat down and chatted as if she were no grander than Nurse Wilks ! |
| 25 | The moment when Pascoe had sat down and taken a sip of the wine ! |
| 26 | On the day I spoke to him , his wizened granite-faced skipper Kepler Wessels ( who is almost the antithesis of Rhodes ) had sat down and spoken to the 22-year-old from Natal about his game . |
| 27 | Both seats have sit up and snooze positions and the pushchair can be folded to make a cot . |
| 28 | Headaches are congestive and throbbing ; blood mounts to the head ; better ( > ) cold and rest , worse ( < ) heat , motion and lying down ; often they have to sit up and apply pressure to the head and a cold application . |
| 29 | ‘ You have to sit up and take notice of his great knowledge about the game . |
| 30 | You have to sit down and think and talk it through logically . ’ |