Example sentences of "[conj] sit down [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then lie or sit down on the nearest piece of furniture , try to keep warm and wait calmly for help to arrive . |
| 2 | He was pestering people at the bar , trying to butt into their conversations or sit down at their tables and behaving — as far as people who did not know he was ill were concerned — like an archetypal northern wally . |
| 3 | Meanwhile , there are some pretty primitive creatures driving around with money in their Torpedoes and Boomerangs , or sitting down with money at the Mahatma or the Assisi , or just standing there with money , in the shops , in the pubs , in the streets . |
| 4 | She instructed Lucien to be careful with his leg , and to exercise the rest of his body only while lying or sitting down for a while . |
| 5 | Give yourself a massage either standing up or sitting down on a towel . |
| 6 | The above indicates that there is far more to negotiating than sitting down opposite the other party and trying to bargain . |
| 7 | After a hard days slog in the office making real-life management decisions , there is nothing your average manager likes doing more than sitting down at home making pretend management decisions governing the career development of an amoeba . |
| 8 | As for that video , what could be more relaxing and companionable than sitting down with Marks&Spencer meals on our knees and watching it in company ? |
| 9 | What better way to spend an evening or Sunday lunch than sitting down with congenial company and enjoying good food . |
| 10 | ‘ Come and sit down over here . ’ |
| 11 | Take off your boots this moment , before I lose my temper , and sit down over there . |
| 12 | ‘ Come and sit down over here . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ We should get six top international players and a number of international referees and sit down with the law-makers so that all points of view are aired . ’ |
| 14 | Forget the original lecture situation and sit down with the speaker to work out the best way of communicating his or her message on the video screen . |
| 15 | ‘ Come and sit down with us , Rachaela . |
| 16 | Can you two go and sit down with daddy please cos this is getting silly . |
| 17 | Go and sit down with daddy please . |
| 18 | ‘ Come and sit down on something more comfortable , ’ he said . |
| 19 | I get on with it most of the afternoon , and I 've still got a stack of unopened buff envelopes in my hand as I head doggedly back up the little twisting staircase and sit down on my hard box seat to get on with it again up here , a task which now looks likely to keep me here after everyone else has gone home . |
| 20 | Again , change hands , push the tiller to where you were sitting , watch for the boom , as it swings across , straighten up and sit down on the new side . |
| 21 | There 's plenty here , so if you clean yourself up and sit down at the table I 'll put something out for you too . |
| 22 | Playing a Stableford of the three best individual scores , they finish about 3½ hours later and sit down to a breakfast provided by the ladies . |
| 23 | It occurred to her that most people , her former self included , would not walk away from an attack by a homicidal transvestite and sit down to a healthy breakfast . |
| 24 | ‘ Come and sit down for a minute while the lasagne finishes cooking . ’ |
| 25 | Stand up and sit down in your normal way and see if you can notice any habitual tendencies ( anything which occurs every time ) . |
| 26 | Life becomes crazy when I 'm recording Birds Of A Feather so I tend to organise working lunches and sit down in a restaurant to get my fuel . |
| 27 | ‘ Come and sit down in the bar , ’ says Mrs Bixman . |
| 28 | yes , eight to eleven you get out there and sit down in your choice time |
| 29 | Cadfael removed a simmering pot from the grid on the side of his brazier , set it aside on the earth floor to cool , and added a couple of turfs to damp down the glow , before straightening his back with some caution , and sitting down beside his friend . |
| 30 | In their new school , their mother says , the Dungworth boys are ‘ very happy ’ taking spelling tests once a week and sitting down at desks . |