Example sentences of "sit [adv] [v-ing] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I sit there repeating a wish in my head like a child . |
| 2 | You will recognise him because he will be sitting alone reading a paperback edition of the Holy Koran . ’ |
| 3 | yeah , we 've lost an enormous amount of staff probably a third of our staff disappeared in the last twelve months , and I think y you we must recognise it 's bound to make an impact and here we are sitting here feeling a bit shell shocked and that 's no doubt one of the contributory factors . |
| 4 | And then they decide , found out they had to put it in the fridge for twenty four hours , so there was I sitting there expecting a biscuit , I did n't get one . |
| 5 | ‘ No thank you , ’ said Penelope , feeling that he could hardly sit there eating a sandwich unless she did too . |
| 6 | As Nancy slid the first tape into her video machine I settled down to watch her at work , but , throughout , the advice offered me on the screen was interspersed with more from the sofa next to me , where she sat eagerly adding a tumult of tips to those already being relayed . |
| 7 | if you sat there peeling an orange and some of the juice squirted on me , I 'd I 'd blister . |
| 8 | And she thought , as she sat there translating a piece of Polyeucte , that if ever she could find the personages for the rest of her tragedy , then her happiness would be complete . |