Example sentences of "sit up and [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 'd got to sit up and lean against their pillows and their sheets had got to be turned down . |
| 2 | For the first time people began to sit up and listen to the facts about a problem which used to be swept silently aside . |
| 3 | However , it is intended to make the average angler sit up and think about what he is spending his money on . |
| 4 | It 's made us all sit up and think about what whe 're doing . |
| 5 | The warmth and elegance of Davis 's style was made immediately apparent in the first movement of the Ireland Sonata No. 1 , with its engagingly lyrical main tune which almost sits up and begs to be liked . |
| 6 | ‘ Well ? ’ she pressed him , sitting up and looking at the broad back facing her . |
| 7 | Maggie announced , sitting up and looking at him seriously . |
| 8 | ‘ Hello , my dearies ! ’ said the tramp , sitting up and squinting at them . |
| 9 | Let me sit up and watch over Mr Hopkins while you have a rest . |
| 10 | ‘ The sort some men will sit up and beg for while others run ; it was n't only looks , she had style . ’ |
| 11 | When they 're sitting in the middle of road there , I stop , I stop the car and I sometimes they 'll sit up and look at you |
| 12 | ‘ Why ca n't you sit up and look about you ? ’ |
| 13 | Thérèse sat up and fumbled for the light-switch that dangled from a cord beside the bed . |
| 14 | Without turning on the light she sat up and reached for her bottle and glass , faintly alarmed to discover she could find them both by feel alone . |
| 15 | He sat up and stared at the sky in wonder . |
| 16 | Breeze sat up and stared at Gay , who was still laughing . |
| 17 | Win Morgan sat up and stared at her daughter . |
| 18 | Crowe sat up and stared at Frederica . |
| 19 | She sat up and stared at Matthew , her eyes red with tears . |
| 20 | Silver 's light-grey fur showed up plainly against a low spray of gorse , but Hazel could not see Bigwig until he sat up and ran towards them . |
| 21 | She sat up and looked at me . |
| 22 | Tom sat up and looked at them . |
| 23 | Juliet sat up and looked at David . |
| 24 | He tossed her shorts away , then sat up and looked at her with desire-darkened eyes as he tugged down the zip on his own shorts and flung them away . |
| 25 | He sat up and looked around the room . |
| 26 | I sat up and leant over him and grabbed my bag . |
| 27 | It was early yet , she noted , and , feeling in no hurry to start a day that might well fall into the same luckless category as yesterday and the day before and the day before that , she sat up and leant against the headboard . |
| 28 | Mick 's head disappeared from the entrance to the trench as I sat up and listened to a shell burst close by . |
| 29 | Sara sat up and felt for her dressing-gown . |
| 30 | Not daring to put on the light , she sat up and felt for the glass of water on the bedside table . |