Example sentences of "sit [adv] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As it was I just sat there fuming with frustration , gabbled one senseless sentence and went swiftly to where charity is supposed to begin , muttering ‘ Never again' all the way , but omitting to add ‘ till the next time ’ . |
| 2 | But while Howard sits there , trying not to think about those 97,000 piled corpses , he apparently sits there thinking about coffee . |
| 3 | well he sits there talking at dinner times well then when she goes |
| 4 | It would have been hard to sit there smouldering with scorn while all around children were bouncing about delivering their verdict of unrestrained approval . |
| 5 | ‘ Why do you say there are n't any aliens ? ’ asked Joe , who had been sitting apparently lost in thought . |
| 6 | In the early days of the band , before John arrived , he 'd beaver away at us in the pub , making us think through our attitudes We ’ d be sitting there talking about music and he 'd dive in . |
| 7 | Having delivered himself of this , his longest speech , Fosdyke sat apparently shrouded in gloom . |
| 8 | So he sat there thinking about life and things ; |
| 9 | So I sat there thinking about life , and when I listened again he was talking about orgasms . ’ |