Example sentences of "sit down [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When world leaders sit down to dinner at home they prefer simple fare , according to the people who cook for them . |
| 2 | Two o'clock — I then sit down in front of the television with a pen and piece of paper and watch the schools programme which I like because you can have a rest from writing and reading . |
| 3 | I wait until my husband 's doing the late shift , and I wait until the children have gone to bed , and I sit down in front of the television . |
| 4 | if you go into the room sit down in front of the typewriter and the exam begins , and you do it you could pass easy , well I 've done it and I 've passed ! |
| 5 | In fact , she was quietly grateful for the fact that he chose not to sit down to table with them . |
| 6 | ‘ I did n't ask to sit down to dinner with them , I did n't ask to be ridiculed and insulted by dear , delightful Melissa ! ’ |
| 7 | Diplow Hall , with ‘ its fine elms and beeches , its lilied pond and grassy acres specked with deer ’ , is another idyll until the reader sits down with Grandcourt at his breakfast table . |
| 8 | They 're done because the old-fashioned way of doing a , putting something together is a paste-up job , you 've got all these stories filed about all sorts of things , and then some editorial chap or chapess sits down with sort of paste and scissors and cuts the things off , and they tend to cut things off the bottom to make it all fit until it feels about right . |
| 9 | In the very beginning she had sat down with Ruth at the small table . |
| 10 | It was on just such a dais as this above the feudal retainers , he supposed , that the Saxon thanes would have sat down to trenchers of roasted wild duck and suckling pig . |
| 11 | He had just sat down in front of the television , beer in one hand , chicken leg in the other , feet on the coffee table , and Sportsnight just started . |
| 12 | Customers at Twr-y-Felin are likely to spend the evenings juggling , fire blowing or learning to tie knots , something they will remember , rather than being sat down in front of a video machine . |
| 13 | Meanwhile , there are some pretty primitive creatures driving around with money in their Torpedoes and Boomerangs , or sitting down with money at the Mahatma or the Assisi , or just standing there with money , in the shops , in the pubs , in the streets . |
| 14 | It is just a question of sitting down with people like Roy Evans and taking it from there . ’ |
| 15 | I 've no wish to see the hungry rafters sitting down to plates of burnt offerings . |
| 16 | Even if they 'd been sitting down to breakfast with a headless horseman . ’ |
| 17 | Before sitting down for lunch at Claridge 's yesterday , she told me : ‘ Darling , I really could n't care . |
| 18 | The following week , several hundred people arrived to obstruct the continuing work of the bulldozers by sitting down in front of them , climbing into the buckets of mechanical diggers and occupying the hole they had begun to excavate . |
| 19 | ‘ He has gone to find you a room , ’ said the Feldwebel , sitting down in front of the fire and stretching his legs . |
| 20 | I was a guest of honour ( ! ) at the Annual Conference Dinner at Torquay , along with , Editor of Private Eye ( and at a guess , it is the only time I shall sit down to dinner with him ! ) . |
| 21 | Or should I perhaps sit down in Salzburg with the empty hope of some better fortune , let Wolfgang grow up , and allow myself and my children to be made fools of until I reach the age which prevents me from travelling and until he attains the age and physical appearance which no longer attract admiration for his merits ? |
| 22 | And again and again : ‘ We 'd rather sit down in front of the TV , or get a video . ’ |
| 23 | I might , for Phil , for Phil to wind down , he 'll come in , say we 've been out for a meal or whatever , he 'll come in and he 'll sit down in front of the television . |
| 24 | At the end of one particularly difficult morning surgery , she sat down for coffee with a long sigh of relief . |
| 25 | We sat down to breakfast in the garden , and listened to the World Service news . |
| 26 | Willie sat down to breakfast in a clean grey shirt and jersey , pressed grey shorts and polished boots . |
| 27 | We sat down to lunch at one-fifteen and rose sometime after three-thirty . |
| 28 | As guests sat down to lunch in the company 's magnificent dining room earlier this week , the fellow with his back to the window was asked if there was too much of a draught . |
| 29 | Fourteen people sat down to dinner at the house , a local man , Thomas Jones , being employed to wait on them at table . |
| 30 | WHEN a Charlton chief sat down to dinner in times gone by and found a spur on the table where his meal should have been , he knew the cupboard was bare once . |