Example sentences of "sit [conj] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It made him feel grown up sitting at the same table as real university students ; engineers and agricultural science students , law or medicine , they had all sat and studied around the Hegarty dining table while young Frank was working for his Intermediate and his Leaving Certificate . |
| 2 | In these days of digital technology and modular electronics , it 's hard to know where to turn when your blue-speaker AC30 begins to issue smoke , your Copicat starts munching recording tape or your beloved Marshall JTM45 just sits and coughs in the corner . |
| 3 | There are many lessons we can learn from other animals , to our great and continuing advantage , and it is high time we took a little while to sit and stare at the other creatures with which we share the earth . |
| 4 | You put yourself into cold storage for two years as far as any kind of political practice goes and just sit and think — and do n't forget you 'll get paid £5000 a year to sit and think about the purity of the struggle we 're all fighting back here . ’ |
| 5 | When it got dark he looked for somewhere else to sit and went to the back of the aircraft by way of the communication tunnel , but quickly got bored . |
| 6 | And when we were getting people from outside coming there and some of them quite militant they were going to sit and lay across the road . |
| 7 | Mrs Mantini did not like Rachaela to sit and read in the shop . |
| 8 | It led Marguerite on to the art of cooking , and Jenna was content to sit and listen to the soothing sound of her voice . |
| 9 | It was like a nightmare to sit and listen to the loose stones bouncing off my windscreen and bodywork as the lorry passed me at about 70mph . |
| 10 | On warm days those of the hospital 's old people who were still mobile used to sit and chatter under the tree in front of the building , watching the passers-by . |
| 11 | It is all too easy to spend a back-breaking couple of hours weeding the garden and never take ten minutes to sit and look at the flowers . |
| 12 | As he pulled on the oars — he could not bear simply to sit and wait for the bell to ring — John was again the boy who had set out to be the man he never became . |
| 13 | ‘ Well , ’ he thought , ‘ I 'll just have to sit and wait for the mist to clear . ’ |
| 14 | We sit and concentrate on the crossword , we do n't kind of , unless we get it done quick , which is is n't very often . |
| 15 | Sit and relax at the Bellevue San Lorenzo |
| 16 | We sit and chat with the miners in their newly-finished bunkhouse , drinking coffee beneath a sign inscribed by , among others , our own National Union of Railwaymen and Amalgamated Engineering Union . |
| 17 | You and Larry sit and eat at the table . |
| 18 | children sit and sing in the book corner ; |
| 19 | There is also a yard where one could at one time sit and look at the adjacent buildings through the barbed wire . |
| 20 | With its formal rose garden , large lawns and a wooded area with a pigeon house and herbaceous borders , it is altogether an ideal place for just sitting and listening to the birdsong . |
| 21 | I 'm telling ya , I 've just had it up to there honest I told Dave this morning , he says well he says I ca n't , he , you 're not losing anything , going and sitting and listening to the man |
| 22 | It was impossible to be euphemistic about the basic facts of nature when one lived on a stud farm , Harry told himself as he watched Cora-Beth rise from the swing seat where they were sitting and walk across the veranda into the house to fetch a fresh jug of lemonade . |
| 23 | The doors to the great white stone building that led to the palatial rotunda were open , the lobby empty except for a single security guard sitting and reading behind the circular information desk . |
| 24 | The two of them stayed sitting and talking in the kitchen for an hour or so longer , and then , at about six o'clock , Matilda said goodnight and set out to walk home to her parent 's house , which was about an eight-minute journey away . |
| 25 | Sitting and relaxing in the sun is one of the great benefits of owning a garden . |
| 26 | It limits the number of holders of ministerial office who may sit and vote in the House of Commons to 95 and debars , amongst others , civil servants , judges , members of the police and armed forces from sitting . |
| 27 | There is no legal limit on the number of ministers but there is a limit on the number who can sit and vote in the Commons ( House of Commons Disqualification Act 1975 , s.2(1) ) , presently 95 and a limit to the number of ministerial salaries which can be paid ( Ministerial and other Salaries Act 1975 ) . |
| 28 | Me father used to sit at one side of the fireplace and me aunt at the other one , and they would sit and talk about the Bible . |
| 29 | But at the end of the second day of this Test showdown , Miandad was the one who could sit and chuckle in the dressing room , whatever the sporting public think of him . |
| 30 | Mrs Manners would cook a large early dinner and they would sit and chat about the coming year . |