Example sentences of "[modal v] [adv] just sit " in BNC.
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| 1 | You must n't just sit there and do it love . |
| 2 | I know if I feel depressed I should n't just sit on my own , you just dwell on it : ‘ Why did I do this , why did I do that ? ’ |
| 3 | You could n't just sit down in a street . |
| 4 | But she could n't just sit there and let him criticise her choice of friends . |
| 5 | It looked like a dull day outside but she could n't just sit in her room doing nothing . |
| 6 | I could n't just sit and watch them dying . ’ |
| 7 | He could n't just sit here and do nothing . |
| 8 | She would not just sit there and let him do this to her ! |
| 9 | You ca n't just sit here . ’ |
| 10 | You 've got to think about something , thinking is very hard , you ca n't just sit all day and do it , even religious solitaries read and say prayers , when the human mind goes beyond anything perceivable there 's no proof any more . |
| 11 | But I ca n't just sit here and watch him . |
| 12 | You ca n't just sit there and munch their biscuits without a single bloody word ! |
| 13 | But it was true , what Jim said , in business you ca n't stand still , you go up or you go down , you ca n't just sit comfortably in your own 1972 executive four-bedroomed plate-glass-windowed centrally heated wall-to-wall-carpeted gadget-equipped house , with your Rover and your wife 's Mini in the two-car garage , and your pot plants in your loggia , and your electric lawn mower in the shed : you ca n't sit still and enjoy it , you ca n't call it a day and call a halt when you own it all and do n't owe anyone a penny , you have to go on and on , relentlessly onwards , juggling with larger and larger sums , owing more , paying out more , until finally perhaps the whole thing comes tumbling round your head like a pack of cards . |
| 14 | " We ca n't just sit here , Gordon . " |
| 15 | If it was n't there already , the impact of recession has spurred awareness in the corporate law sector that you ca n't just sit and wait for clients to come to your door with their next little legal exercise . |
| 16 | ‘ But you ca n't just sit at home all day . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I ca n't just sit here stranded . ’ |
| 18 | They ca n't just sit there and saying nothing . |
| 19 | It 's because you ca n't just sit down and di if you do n't know how to spell , I ca n't spell anyway , d' you know when I did it , the student actually wrote a letter to me and to th or to the exam board car saying that this hand-writing is appalling and the spelling , it 's due to the person who was doing the amanuensing , rather th but I was marking it anyway so it did n't really matter , but they were so distressed at the handwriting that I produced . |
| 20 | it wo n't just sit there |
| 21 | Their intention is to convince readers that genetics will have a powerful influence on their lives and that scientists can not be trusted to protect them : ‘ We can not just sit by as passive worshippers or victims ’ . |
| 22 | ‘ And of course , ’ says the reporter , ‘ you can always just sit at one of the city 's many charming little cafés and just watch the world go by . ’ |
| 23 | we take some of them part bake breads and some cheese and biscuits and a great big packet of cheese and , and you just you know , you can either just sit there , but the food , once you get down the food is so cheap you do n't want nothing else in the heat . |