Example sentences of "to sit [adv] [conj] [vb infin] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Brenda 's " if you was to sit down an' 'ear that guy speak " . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ We have to sit down and consider that . |
| 5 | My brother and I used to sit together and drive this old horse up and down the field and throw the hay all over the place to get the sun . |
| 6 | Inside , an apron has been fixed in front of the window-slots so wheelchairs can be pushed close , giving people the chance to sit comfortably and watch many of the 250-plus bird species . |
| 7 | ‘ We are not going to sit back and accept this . ’ |
| 8 | But , instead of being able to sit back and enjoy this baby , she has also to look after the other children who may only just have left the baby stage themselves . |
| 9 | out , he says to me you 'll kill yourself , you always want to do something , but to be honest it 's worse for me to sit there and watch that , it 's more tiring because by the end of the night I 'm not tired or I 've been asleep all evening I , I 'm better to go out , I know it sounds awful but I do n't like being trapped , I do n't like being in because somebody seems to think I should be in |