Example sentences of "sit [adv] [conj] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | come and sit down and get to business , now he may not , he may still want to have a chat about the weather or whatever you know so again be aware that to cut too soon to business |
| 2 | ‘ Sit down and listen to me . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Sit down and listen to the radio for a bit while I go up and wash . |
| 4 | ring my friend if it makes you feel alright it 's ace if you just sit down and listen to the old Beatles is n't it ? feel alright I do n't care too much for money , money ca n't be me love ca n't be me love |
| 5 | ‘ I sit down and say to myself , how can I convert a mileage reading of one hundred and fifty thousand into only ten thousand without taking the speedometer to pieces ? |
| 6 | ( Task 16 ) is a more avoidable request than ‘ Sit down and talk to me ’ . |
| 7 | If I sit down and talk to I 've said this and I 'll say it I 've said it ad nauseam . |
| 8 | He did not ask her to sit down but said to her straightaway , ‘ What has she told you ? ’ |
| 9 | They all have people who deal specifically with debt problems and will be happy to sit down and talk to you . |
| 10 | The important thing about that Richard is you still have to sit down and talk to them about these businesses . |
| 11 | There 's a thread running through them , but you have to sit down and listen to them before that sinks in . ’ |
| 12 | When the Farmer has finished he sits down and goes to sleep and begins counting to 100 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Because even if you you have sat down and spoken to somebody about the project for five minutes , and given them all the other information , |
| 15 | For the first time people began to sit up and listen to the facts about a problem which used to be swept silently aside . |
| 16 | The warmth and elegance of Davis 's style was made immediately apparent in the first movement of the Ireland Sonata No. 1 , with its engagingly lyrical main tune which almost sits up and begs to be liked . |
| 17 | With a two goal lead from the first leg the pressure was off Swindon for once last night as they tackled Wolves at Molineux … and when Nicky Summerbee gave them the lead they could afford to sit back and cruise to the third rounds … |
| 18 | Tom thought that once Willie had finished his final Reading Book he would n't want him to read to him any more , but Willie loved to sit back and listen to his voice and so the stories continued . |
| 19 | Nothing to do but sit here and wait to be fried . |
| 20 | There was a thing about Rick Holden on Sunday where he says that most of the players just sit around or go to the pub etc after training and on their days off . |
| 21 | Has somebody got to sit here and listen to all this rubbish ? |
| 22 | Chilled and depressed , unwilling to sit there and listen to the conversation , Luce got to her feet and left , closing the door behind her . |
| 23 | I looked out of the window and it was the back garden of Dr Jane 's house , and when Mrs Pitt came up to serve me and I complained Dr Jane laughed , and it was really Dr Jane all the time and the whole place was horrible and dark and dirty and when I got outside to follow my friends the ones who were usually in the dream there were n't any people and we were in a sort of studio and the village and the inn it was so obvious now I felt a fool for going in and sitting down and expecting to be served was the crudest sort of cardboard stage set like a model for a child 's history lesson and the colours were horrible and it smelt of a sort of horrible glue and — — |
| 24 | Could you sit down and talk to him about your favourite band ? |
| 25 | And in fact , I get an awful lot of support from friends erm , not family because my family are n't , were n't aware of it , erm but I mean , really it came from fre , really close friends that I could sit down and talk to and that could understand me and accept me , just like what the girl said as well . |
| 26 | You can sit down and talk to her ; you can say anything , and no matter what you say , it 's confidential between you and her . |
| 27 | ‘ Madam , ’ Cranston did n't even bother to look up , ‘ you will sit down and listen to what I say . |
| 28 | I could sit around and listen to that smoky voice all day . |
| 29 | And he ca n't sit quietly and talk to people now . |
| 30 | So it 's not for me to sort of sit quietly and listen to , record other people , so it 's my conversation they want . |