Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [coord] sit " in BNC.
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| 1 | We got out of the coach and walked through the gates to the stares of those gathered on the gravel , and over to a low metal hut in the corner of the compound where we were ordered to go inside and sit down in silence . |
| 2 | The sa the same applies for pricing virtually to anything else if if you 're going to take the maximum advantage of flying by air you either have to book it well in advance through a package or whatever or whatever or else you 'd have to go along and sit in a bucket shop hoping that somebody 's gon na |
| 3 | All that and more went through my mind , wrote Harsnet , as I sat there in the moonlight in the silence , but it was as if it was the glass which was telling me this , that the glass was my mind as I thought that , or my mind the glass , and that was the reason for the fear and the cold and also for the sense of growing excitement and a fear then , a different kind of fear , that I would not be able to do anything with this excitement , that it would be my failure , my failure to realize what I now saw were the real possibilities of the glass , a failure for which I would never be able to forgive myself , though a part of me would always know or perhaps only believe that it was in the nature of my insight that there could be no realization of it , that it was precisely an insight about non-realization , but by then , wrote Harsnet , it had all become too complicated , too extreme , I did not want to know any of it until it was all over , until I had made my effort , perhaps it had been a mistake to come in and sit there with the glass through the night with the moon shining so brightly , it must have been full , or nearly full , unnaturally bright anyway , something to do with the solstice perhaps , to sit in the room with the glass alone or with the moon alone might have been bearable , in the dark with the glass or in the moonlight in an empty room , but the two together , the glass and the moon , that was perhaps the mistake . |
| 4 | I thought , if I could go for a hybrid of these two , and get comedians to come in and sit with deadpan expressions , I might have something interesting on my hands . |
| 5 | ‘ I would ask you to come in and sit down , but you are wearing so many clothes . ’ |
| 6 | He described one , a boy who was glad to come in and sit for him , and bring his spade . |
| 7 | ‘ Now it 's coming up November , Mrs M , ’ she said , after Celia had asked her to come in and sit down , ‘ I should like to get back to London . |
| 8 | And when I sit here it means two things : first , that we all stop playing a part at that moment and second , that I 'd like you all to come over and sit down to discuss what we 've been doing . " |
| 9 | Alternatively , it may simply attempt to stand up or sit . |
| 10 | Others simply stood around the door resisting every invitation to come forward and sit at the front among middle-aged relations and family friends . |
| 11 | Are all the rest of us to give up and sit on our hands rather than serve humbly where we deserve ? ’ |
| 12 | They ca n't bite you , but I was given a bottle of gin and told to go out and sit on the stairs . |
| 13 | Users could either join in or sit and do nothing . |
| 14 | John Edwards says the horse is a good jumper so he 'll tell Judy to hang on and sit still and let the horse do the hard work . |
| 15 | Sometimes I 'd get up and go down and sit with her , look up at the Moon shining through the glass and think , at least I 'm out of that . |
| 16 | I half hope he 's awake , so that I can go in and sit with him , and stroke his head . |
| 17 | and even if you do n't it 's gon na c you know And er you get a few choice words and then eventually you say Well well look we 'll go outside and sit outside for a few minutes and d and wait till you 've decided what and do n't forget i time you kn you kn |
| 18 | ‘ Look let's go over and sit down . |
| 19 | When do you stand up and sit down ? |
| 20 | But now , I must go back and sit with her . ’ |
| 21 | Let's go back and sit together in the shade , shall we ? |
| 22 | Now then can you go back and sit over at your table ? |
| 23 | ‘ And groups would come down and sit in with us . |
| 24 | Sometimes , when he has been working in the garden , he will come in and sit down , then out again and does a bit more . |
| 25 | ‘ I can still come in and sit down , ’ Primaflora said , doing so . |
| 26 | Crawford recalled of Lennon , ‘ He 'd come in and sit cross-legged on the bed with his guitar or we 'd take his Rolls to the beach . ’ |
| 27 | And then the er the older ones when they were if if they were sitting on the walls outside , the erm deck level flats , again they were either disturbing the people there or , the people were out shouting at them to get away and sit on their own walls and things like that . |
| 28 | At length , I did manage to roll over and sit up . |
| 29 | I will come home and sit down and do nothing , just think . |
| 30 | Anyway , you know I have my good days and when I do I like to get up and sit by the fire for a while . ’ |