Example sentences of "sit down and [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.

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No	Sentence
1	‘ Sit down and listen to the radio for a bit while I go up and wash .
2	ring my friend if it makes you feel alright it 's ace if you just sit down and listen to the old Beatles is n't it ? feel alright I do n't care too much for money , money ca n't be me love ca n't be me love
3	because I breed racehorses , I also am a farmer so I wear two hats , but I 've actually seen foxes sit down we move the hounds move in , si sit down and scratch in the middle of a field , and then they think ah !
4	Why not have the group sit down and talk about the strategy issues ?
5	Mr Chalmers said in Glasgow : ‘ The only political parties who are not prepared to sit down and talk about the recall of a Scottish parliament are the Tory party and the Labour Party .
6	It was n't as if I even wanted to sit down and write in the first place .
7	On the day I spoke to him , his wizened granite-faced skipper Kepler Wessels ( who is almost the antithesis of Rhodes ) had sat down and spoken to the 22-year-old from Natal about his game .
8	She hoisted the baby on to her hip and dragging a chair close up to the television set , sat down and stared at the blank screen .
9	He sat down and stared at the gifts quite speechless .
10	I sat down and leant against the wall , trying to decide what to do .
11	Dickinson sat down and looked at the adjutant , appalled .
12	‘ I sat down and said to the doctor ‘ So I have cancer ’ and he said ‘ Yes ’ .
13	The Captain sat down and reached for the telephone .
14	But still the urge to express her feelings tormented her and at last , in defiance of that dislike she had felt on their last meeting , she sat down and wrote to the person to whom she had once been most close , to Mrs Browning .
15	She sat down and leaned against the bole of the tree , watching him .
16	Dorcas sat down and leaned against the yellow metal .
17	He sat down and pushed at the lid with one filthy paw .

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