Example sentences of "sit [adv] [conj] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You sit down and wrap this towel round your neck . ’ |
| 2 | Before you take out a loan sit down and list all the money coming in and what you will have to pay out . |
| 3 | Sit down and sign that cheque , ’ he commanded , ‘ or you 'll be bloody sorry . ’ |
| 4 | Brenda 's " if you was to sit down an' 'ear that guy speak " . |
| 5 | Probably the best advice is to sit down and list all income as well as all expenditure — including variables like possible car maintenance bills , treats , clothes , savings for holidays — and then honestly look at what is left . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ We have to sit down and consider that . |
| 8 | My brother and I used to sit together and drive this old horse up and down the field and throw the hay all over the place to get the sun . |
| 9 | Inside , an apron has been fixed in front of the window-slots so wheelchairs can be pushed close , giving people the chance to sit comfortably and watch many of the 250-plus bird species . |
| 10 | Sit up and drink this , ’ she urged , helping him into a sitting position . |
| 11 | Here comes summer … time for the two of you to slip away for that special holiday , so sit back and enjoy those dream destinations that make you wish you were there … cruise the Caribbean 's hot spots on Le Ponant and graceful and stylish luxury yacht … take time off a tour of the Greek Islands and enjoy the special mixture of sun , beauty and history … party 'till dawn on Majorca or discover more secluded spots on this and the other Balearic Islands … beat the crowds to the tiny Caribbean island of Anguilla and relish the silky feel of warm sand slipping between your toes … if time is short cross the Channel to France and the pretty countryside of Picardy … or rediscover England on a relaxing barge built for two … we also look at romantic hotels in Britain , perfect for first nights , short breaks or indulgent weekends … |
| 12 | we 're off grass track racing now … one of the country 's biggest meetings was held in Oxfordshire at the weekend … and if you 've never been to a race before … sit back and watch this … it 's exciting stuff … |
| 13 | ‘ We are not going to sit back and accept this . ’ |
| 14 | But , instead of being able to sit back and enjoy this baby , she has also to look after the other children who may only just have left the baby stage themselves . |
| 15 | Yeah , if you sit there and eat that |
| 16 | out , he says to me you 'll kill yourself , you always want to do something , but to be honest it 's worse for me to sit there and watch that , it 's more tiring because by the end of the night I 'm not tired or I 've been asleep all evening I , I 'm better to go out , I know it sounds awful but I do n't like being trapped , I do n't like being in because somebody seems to think I should be in |
| 17 | Instead of just sitting there and quoting all these figures |
| 18 | and that , I said I could n't sit down and do that I said , I |
| 19 | Often , for instance , after the baby has been put to sleep the mother will sit down and eat another meal . |
| 20 | But you do have to still sit down and get that information . |
| 21 | also the people on the ground I mean er surely it would n't do any harm to actually sit down and put some veiws forward from the whole department |
| 22 | And they 'll actually sit down and work that out for people and encourage them to go for a job and give them all the forms they need to claim Family Credit or whatever . |
| 23 | Born in Huddersfield , Mike , 40 , spent the early part of his career wandering between journalism and PR , always promising himself one day he would sit down and write that book . |
| 24 | But you can actually sit down and write several poems to order ? |
| 25 | Well that 'll make them sit up and think that 's for sure |
| 26 | Later when the video is finished they will all sit back and view each of the attempts and learn from the mistakes . |
| 27 | I 've been coming to conference for the last fifteen years to help build the grand union which we 've got today and I 'm not gon na sit back and watch this carved up , for nobody , for nobody . |
| 28 | ‘ And you think Cawthorne will just sit back and take this ? ’ |
| 29 | And I must not only sit here and endure all this I must read her account of it at the end of the day , and think of something polite to say about it before I find ways of rewriting and neutralizing it . |
| 30 | You know his laws in parc you know sort of in practice , but we 'll , we 'll sit here and watch that pen until it suddenly jumps off the table . |