Example sentences of "sit down [conj] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You sit down and wrap this towel round your neck . ’ |
| 2 | Before you take out a loan sit down and list all the money coming in and what you will have to pay out . |
| 3 | Sit down and sign that cheque , ’ he commanded , ‘ or you 'll be bloody sorry . ’ |
| 4 | Brenda 's " if you was to sit down an' 'ear that guy speak " . |
| 5 | Probably the best advice is to sit down and list all income as well as all expenditure — including variables like possible car maintenance bills , treats , clothes , savings for holidays — and then honestly look at what is left . |
| 6 | So everything 's there , printing presses repro separation houses , sheet film , computer set up and Apple Macs and everything is there , it 's actually a very impressive set up erm , the Queen Margaret 's course , I 'm slightly dubious about I once had a colleague I 'm going back a decade who had been employed on the basis of doing the communications course at Queen Margaret I think , and it turned out that it was n't communications as we understood it , it was n't our sort of communications P R newspapers and things like that , it was communications on a much broader , broader front so it did n't actually fit in to the world of P R and what happened was I then had to sit down and train this woman from scratch and get rid of a lot of the preconceived notions that she had come in with she had brought from Queen Margaret 's College . |
| 7 | ‘ We have to sit down and consider that . |
| 8 | and that , I said I could n't sit down and do that I said , I |
| 9 | Often , for instance , after the baby has been put to sleep the mother will sit down and eat another meal . |
| 10 | But you do have to still sit down and get that information . |
| 11 | also the people on the ground I mean er surely it would n't do any harm to actually sit down and put some veiws forward from the whole department |
| 12 | And they 'll actually sit down and work that out for people and encourage them to go for a job and give them all the forms they need to claim Family Credit or whatever . |
| 13 | Born in Huddersfield , Mike , 40 , spent the early part of his career wandering between journalism and PR , always promising himself one day he would sit down and write that book . |
| 14 | But you can actually sit down and write several poems to order ? |
| 15 | If you sat down and made another fair copy of the manuscript , you would infallibly find yourself making new adjustments and emendations to it . |
| 16 | If we go back about two years , a little bit more than two years now , we sat down and considered those areas which were most important to us in developing a new accounting package . |
| 17 | Here 's the café where he sat down and read all the papers , trying to understand the local politics . |
| 18 | Edward sat down and read these words : |