Example sentences of "[pron] sit [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Why me ? ’ he asks Phil Schaffer , as the two of them sit late in Indian restaurants , eating blazing vindaloos after watching old Humphrey Bogart movies at cinemas beyond the railway sidings , on autumn nights when each sodium light has a yellow halo in the foggy air . |
| 2 | When I introduce myself to a class that I am working with for the first time I frequently begin by asking them to sit close by me on the floor and listen with their eyes shut to the sound of a pair of Indian bells struck together . |
| 3 | Other children are too active to sit on the pot for any reasonable length of time and mothers may despair at ever being able to get them to sit still . |
| 4 | Persuading them to sit still can be difficult at first . |
| 5 | ‘ They 've forced me to sit cross-legged for hours leaning against a wall with my fingertips . ’ |
| 6 | He pulls me close and tells me to sit tight . |
| 7 | It was very hot that year and he liked me to sit naked on a chair in the courtyard garden while I read to him . ’ |
| 8 | Ronan was entertaining them ; he was a good mimic and this time he was doing a fussy Brother in the school trying to get everyone to sit still in the big hall for a lecture . |
| 9 | For the moment if I sit still how everything |
| 10 | I 've been looking after myself of course and I got together her lunch at sits , I sit all the time . |
| 11 | I sit prepared , yet unprepared : |
| 12 | I sit next to a down and out who has salvaged h is lunch from the bins . |
| 13 | In spite of my enthusiasm and my growing sense of self-importance , one con keeps cropping up and is finally given life by a fellow banker from Chase Manhattan , whom I sit next to on the flight into Kuala Lumpur . |
| 14 | Erm , no I do n't know much about it yet , we have n't I 've only just been told about it by a friend who I sit next to on the bus . |
| 15 | I sit next to him in my erm F T |
| 16 | I sit erect . |
| 17 | I sit high on a table with a white paper sheet on it . |
| 18 | Sometimes , as I sit alone in my flat in London and stare at the window , I think how dismal it is , how hard , how heavy , to watch the rain and not know why it falls . |
| 19 | one and flesh of the other I sing dumb I sit pretty I stand for my |
| 20 | when I was sixteen because it 's then I started to get these free passes and I had a sister then who lived at Rye and I had never been across London so the next door neighbour came with me to see me across London er because I was so young you see and I said right as long as you show me across London I can come back alone , you see , and so I came back alone and I , that 's when I started , so from sixteen and er and as I say I went to Cambridge in the nineteen thirty one , it was the last day of well say nineteen thirty two , you see , and , and also in the twenties I was going on holiday alone and I went to once er to the Isle of Man and when I was er I , I sat next , well being by myself , you see , they put me in , to a little table near the wall . |
| 21 | ‘ We never find ourselves sitting next to another director at lunch , which I think is an admirable arrangement . |
| 22 | Somebody might laugh , but just for something to do I was picturing the McLaren girl and I sitting alone in the hotel cafe . |
| 23 | Endill found it funny but someone sitting next to him said it became very annoying year after year . |
| 24 | It does have some impact I 'm sure that you 've been the training session and you thought it 's really good , really got a lot out of it and you 're quite surprised to see someone sitting next to you did n't like that much at all , you thought hmm wonder why that is because I found the content really interesting and it could have been the content matter did n't really sort of do anything for the people , it could have been the way it was put together , put over and the way it was actually structured . |
| 25 | Please , she thought , let someone sit between me and him , let someone sit next to me . |
| 26 | He chuckled excitedly as Carrie came in and she said , ‘ Hallo , Mister Johnny , can I sit next to you ? ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Can I sit next to Huw at the table , Mum ? ’ |
| 28 | If I , if I was a job analysis person , what will I sit next to you would n't I and what would I have missed out ? |
| 29 | Can I sit next to you ? |
| 30 | I sat right at the front , my head tilted back as if for a nose-bleed , the stick of my sherbet lolly angled like a thermometer , in a quiet fever of excitement . |