Example sentences of "sit [adv prt] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just over two million of our pupils sit down to a knife-and-fork meal at midday . |
| 2 | It occurred to her that most people , her former self included , would not walk away from an attack by a homicidal transvestite and sit down to a healthy breakfast . |
| 3 | On Saturday nights around 30 people sit down to a four-course SE Asian banquet . |
| 4 | When you sit down for a wee while . |
| 5 | Basically , I just sit down with a little Pignose amp and a tape recorder and play all night . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I think the Border clubs would have to sit down as a composite group and work out a new sevens structure . ’ |
| 7 | When he was able to sit down for a brief breather , he received a telephone call from control saying that some twenty young bullocks had got loose on the railway line heading in his direction and would he keep a look out , with the thought that trains and cattle do not mix . |
| 8 | Is there a certain time when you always love to sit down with a relaxing drink and something to eat ? |
| 9 | She sits down in a quiet room , provided at public expense , and begins to lecture a man who is shortly to be found dying by the dustbins . |
| 10 | However , with regard to the follow-up of arrests , one of the research team was able to sit in on a Juvenile Case Referral Panel , which recommended whether juveniles should be cautioned , and another member made observations in the magistrates ' courts . |
| 11 | You are supposed to sit up with a straight back . |
| 12 | Stay in this position for some time , then slowly sit up through a curved spine — a great way to relax ! |
| 13 | The cheapest and most practical method was for the shikari to sit out over a tethered bait in a tree hide or machan waiting for the tiger to appear . |
| 14 | ‘ We can not afford to ignore any market area within the EC nor feel secure to sit back on a strong domestic market only to find our position eroded by competitors , ’ he said . |
| 15 | So it was then a question of just sitting down with a blank sheet of paper and starting to draw , because a Designer thinks about structures and design only by doing it , by drawing what 's in his mind . |
| 16 | Hm , I said , sitting down on a split rexine tuffet . |
| 17 | Do you find that when you 're sitting down on a hard floor and you stand up yeah and your arse hurts for about half an hour ? |
| 18 | On the evening you then had perhaps 100 or more guests altogether sitting down to a splendid meal followed afterwards by an entertainment organised by some of the men of the congregation . |
| 19 | I ca n't see him sitting down for a quiet civilized three cornered discussion . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ The Forest ! ’ he said , sitting up with a sudden movement . |
| 21 | This brass is thought to have been made by a Flemish craftsman , and depicts a woman sitting up in a four poster bed with her children around her , and twins in a cradle alongside and at the foot of the inscription Lambarde had inscribed " No lady was more full of reverence towards God than she " . |
| 22 | ‘ It 's all very fine sitting around on a sunny morning sounding confident . |
| 23 | Why do n't we go and sit down for a few minutes and then you can decide what you want to do next ? ’ |
| 24 | Might as well sit down for a few minutes might n't we ? |
| 25 | to there hiatus , hiatus hernia , ooh terrible you 're stitched all inside ooh it 's like you could sit down to a beautiful tea tonight and enjoy it and then you could sit down to your breakfast in morning , one bite and that was you finished |
| 26 | ‘ Are n't you and Charles due to go off on holiday soon ? ’ she queried , when tea and biscuits were duly dispensed to Lucy and she could sit down on a wicker-backed chair and sip her own . |
| 27 | well no , because what you can do know is you can go to somebody who will sit down with a mini computer and that 's what you need , a mini computer and will sit down and will look at a job and will say right , if you take this job , it can also claim Family Credit of so much , and , and they actually do a , a sort of alternative benefit calculation , and what they do is they look at , if you take this job and take all the other things into account , will you be better off ? |
| 28 | Do you sit down with a blank sheet of paper and think ‘ I 'm going to write a poem on the subject of windows , or bible stories ’ ? |
| 29 | At other times , he would sit back in a thoughtful , philosophical mood and ask Bob whether he felt one ought to have one 's name printed at the head of one 's private writing-paper . |
| 30 | Perhaps eight people of various ages will be invited to an agency and will sit around in a comfortable room simply responding to very informal promptings from the discussion leader . |