Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [adv] sit " in BNC.
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| 1 | So before you decide that you 're not worth a hundred and fifty thousand pound do actually sit down and work it out . |
| 2 | While specialist refereeing is standard practice in academic publishing , Edinburgh 's 15-member committee do not sit as specialists in their particular subjects , but discuss the reports from a broader perspective . |
| 3 | ’ And although the old folk do not sit around the fire any more telling stories as they once did — many of the yarns told by Mr Murray 's own father have found their way into his poetry — there are always the excitements and discoveries of the present by way of compensation . |
| 4 | Hoving 's gushings are just as tiresome as his nastiness : his description of warming up the cantankerous Robert Lehman ( estranged from the museum over what the collector believed to be an anti-Semitic slight ) recalls similar scenes in Shirley Temple films , the main difference being that presumably Hoving did n't sit on Lehman 's lap . |
| 5 | These provisions do not sit happily with the implied limitation for which Hambros Jersey contended . |
| 6 | Among the pieces of evidence advanced for the traditional view , for example , are the facts that until late in the reign of Suleyman the Muftis were considerably less well-paid than the kazaskers and that the Muftis did not sit in the divan whereas the kazaskers did . |
| 7 | The name does n't sit very well on the tongue . |
| 8 | On Tuesday Jessie went to a restaurant , cats do n't sit at tables said Jessie and . |
| 9 | People do not sit down to write it , but those who need to communicate with people in the other parts of the country love to speak it . |
| 10 | ( Hop bitterness does not sit well with the wheat beers ' particular style of fruitiness . |
| 11 | This , as one of the very few occasions , when , during a meeting , the girls did not sit traditionally silent or whisper amongst themselves . |
| 12 | Harley did n't sit around totally idle ; there were some one-off specials — Hammersmith Odeon and Camden Palace — and of course he was six months working on Andrew Lloyd Webber 's ‘ Phantom Of The Opera ’ … |
| 13 | Hard-line street life does n't sit easily with the girls ' culture , and for all their stylish revolt , in the end the only way to belong seems to be to be part of the community of women . |
| 14 | A sturdily middle-class society does not sit easily atop political immobility ; and , indeed , Taiwan has been experimenting with reform for the past three years . |
| 15 | Being the world 's No 1 in the Sony rankings did not sit easily on Woosnam 's shoulders . |
| 16 | The volatility and their non-guaranteed status do not sit comfortably with the official line linking the two benefits . |
| 17 | But these requirements do not sit easily with the generous philosophy of the DES booklet . |
| 18 | But somehow , now that the 34-year-old Yuri is spending more time away from his homeland — touring with the Bolshoi to Europe , America and the Far East , starring in Sleeping Beauty , Romeo & Juliet and Swan Lake , meeting politicians and top businessmen , even being presented to royalty — that shaggy , laid-back image does n't sit so well on his broad shoulders . |
| 19 | We have shown that information does not sit in discrete reservoirs waiting to be tapped . |
| 20 | And I rang them and see if I could cancel it for the Monday and he only , the doctor does n't sit on the Monday , so I 've got |
| 21 | This conviction did not sit well either with regimental soldiering or with Whitehall . |
| 22 | Little boys do not sit on windowsills . |
| 23 | Working-class Protestants had some material advantages over their Catholic competitors and enjoyed preferential treatment in housing and local government employment but these advantages were sometimes marginal and were not often felt to be considerable advantages because the Protestants did not sit down to statistical comparisons of their standards of living with the opportunities of Catholics . |
| 24 | The different forms of the ulterior intent do not sit happily together in s.18 : causing GBH with intent to do GBH may be more serious than causing GBH with intent to resist arrest yet the crime and punishment are the same . |
| 25 | ‘ And in the best houses master and servant do not sit drinking coffee , or anything else for that matter , together in the kitchen . |
| 26 | But Father Poole did not sit down . |
| 27 | The Minister does not sit over the local authority , in the way that a court supervises administrative authorities , including the executive . |
| 28 | Furthermore such a construction does not sit easily with subsection ( 3 ) which preserves the common law as it existed immediately before the Act which undoubtedly gave parents an effective power of consent for all children up to the age of 21 , the then existing age of consent : see Gillick 's case [ 1986 ] A.C. 112 , 167C , per Lord Fraser of Tullybelton , and at p. 182E , per Lord Scarman . |
| 29 | One of the twins had better sit on my lap . |
| 30 | I have given you the section of the room in which Mr Fishbane does not sit . |