Example sentences of "sit up [coord] take " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it had been a Peter Reid type , someone who battles and fights his way through every game as if his very life depended on it , I might have sat up and took a little bit more notice . |
| 2 | Ocean needs to keep plugging away , expanding its environmental and distribution interests to really get the City to sit up and take notice . |
| 3 | ‘ You have to sit up and take notice of his great knowledge about the game . |
| 4 | When a highly qualified professional makes such a dire prediction , one has to sit up and take notice . |
| 5 | She appealed for society to sit up and take notice of problems faced by young people driven from home by sexual abuse , violence or neglect . |
| 6 | In that case , big firms and their insurers would have to sit up and take notice or pay the consequences . |
| 7 | He envisaged a Soviet return to the position of leading exporter of grain as something that would make ‘ Messrs Imperialists ’ sit up and take notice . |
| 8 | Campaigning groups have served to shine a spotlight on many of the world 's diminishing rainforests and are making the guilty West sit up and take note . |
| 9 | Yet when another child is attacked , they sit up and take notice . |
| 10 | That 'll make both your beaux sit up and take notice . " |
| 11 | Well , he would make them all sit up and take notice . |
| 12 | Talk turns to a familiar theme — the failure of the city to support new ideas , the segregation of black and white music , how difficult it is for dance music to get substantial airplay — most of all the struggle to make the rest of the city sit up and take notice of its thriving techno scene . |
| 13 | Mostly our air arrives from the west which is why we sit up and take notice of the weather in America , although actually it can change a great deal on the way over here . |
| 14 | I just hope people sort of sit up and take notice of it . |
| 15 | I never dreamed I 'd actually be sitting up and taking nourishment so soon — and enjoying it . ’ |
| 16 | His North Sea assault gave the environmentalists a powerful and unique spokesman ; it made the government sit up and take notice ; and it speeded up the long and painful process of making the public aware that there was a very real problem to solve , which was going to involve personal sacrifices . |
| 17 | Instead we have the politics of statistics , and unless a citizen has a pocket calculator at hand with which to check the figures being bandied about , he is virtually disenfranchised — until , that is , something is said which makes him sit up and take indignant or enthusiastic notice . |
| 18 | ‘ The Ukrainian Peel sessions actually made me sit up and take notice . |
| 19 | Now for those of us that have been slightly biased by the dubiously titled ‘ Warehouse Raves ’ compilations that Rumour have been responsible for in the past , well we can not sit up and take note , because here comes their most exciting release for as long as I care to remember ( sorry Rumour ! ) . |
| 20 | ‘ Am I Not Your Girl ? ’ is Sinead 's third album , and even though not one single song is written by her , it is every bit as confessional , as painfully honest , as her first two — that 's why you must sit up and take notice . |
| 21 | Only when extroverts began breaking bricks in public , and demonstrating full-contact karate , did Americans sit up and take notice . |
| 22 | " That would 've made him sit up and take notice , Joey , would n't it ? " |
| 23 | When ordinary men and women are fired by the Spirit to bear witness to ‘ a Lord who pardons and loves , a Lord who is just as powerful as the landowners , the mine-managers or the trade union secretaries , because he is God , a God who desires to be called Father , and who treats the most wretched of men as his son ’ ( d'Epinay ) then people will sit up and take notice . |
| 24 | If that does n't make him sit up and take notice … one of the voices in her head started to say until she firmly clamped down on it . |
| 25 | But they certainly catch local attention and make people sit up and take a look . |
| 26 | Stan Wood is a shining example of that proud Scottish tradition — a self-made man , the archetypal Scot who makes the world sit up and take notice . |
| 27 | It washes over your head without making you sit up and take notice . |
| 28 | I hope that people will sit up and take notice of it . |
| 29 | Now one can say well what are we aiming for in terms of the sexual harassment free environment , and I think that what one would be aiming for is if not the atmosphere of a girls ' convent school one 's certainly aiming at an environment where women can work and study and interact without the sense of being constantly on display as sexual objects , and , you know , to that extent I do n't know if it is the case that a large number of the respondents are saying , you know , ‘ I have come from an environment when I have n't had to deal with this before , and I do n't expect to have to deal with it ’ then we should certainly sit up and take notice of that . |
| 30 | He sat up and took a piece of mud-coloured rag out of his pocket and wiped his face . |