Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] sit [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fabia reached Ven 's suite and let herself in , walked across the sitting-room and into her bedroom where she sat down on the edge of the bed , and felt , for the moment , defeated . |
| 2 | She slammed the boot down , with a cry of ‘ God Almighty ! ’ and ran indoors , where she sat down at the kitchen table and beat her fists against the wood , with anger , with frustration , with a sudden , desperate concern for Nick . |
| 3 | All-night parties , Nina dancing in the nude , Modi stumbling into the sketching class very drunk , the weekly visits to the Gaieté Montparnasse , a small , bawdy music-hall where they sat up in the gallery , all paint a happy-go-lucky picture . |
| 4 | At first , my mind could not adjust to the missing three months , so that I sat stupidly with the paper in my hands , staring at it . |
| 5 | They are pulled away impatiently by Bill , so I sit back on the side lines . |
| 6 | It was unthinkable to begin walking before knowing the repair was complete , so I sat glumly on the wheelbarrow which we had lifted off the trailer . |
| 7 | There was no arguing with him , and it was very pleasant to have someone caring , so she sat back in the seat without further protest . |
| 8 | That we sit down with the figures and it might be another thing like we did with the bridal magazines , that we go to somebody and say , look we would like to do this to increase our turnover , will you fund us for half a year ? |
| 9 | In another direction , P&W plans to enter the facilities management market , believing that it sits well with the company 's annual report and corporate finance activities . |
| 10 | To put this more concretely , there can be legitimate arguments about the nature , quality and function of a listener 's response to the actual sound and structure of , say , an Elvis Presley or Bing Crosby song ; what is not legitimate is to move this ‘ thrill ’ , however defined , bodily across the theoretical topography so that it sits wholly under the sign of commodity-fetishism . |
| 11 | Then he moved the black rook so that it sat solidly behind the white bishop , attacking it in response despite the presence of the white queen three squares behind the bishop . |
| 12 | The carer stands with her legs on either side of the patient 's knees , places her hands under the patient 's seat , pulls his body-weight forward and in one movement lifts his pelvis and pivots him so that he sits down onto the chair . |
| 13 | For the first set of songs , I had more to do with that side mainly because I 'm the guitarist , and I sit down with the guitar for 3 or 4 hours every day , so there 's always a riff there . |
| 14 | She laughs and throws the duvet at me , and I sit back on the sofa-bed as she slips out into the hall . |
| 15 | ‘ Jenny and I sat up until the early hours chatting . ’ |
| 16 | So Sid and I sat just outside the trench discussing the events of the day , and swatting mosquitoes . |
| 17 | I went into a toilet and there was none and I sat down on the toilet , looked up , they were all above the door , five of them ! |
| 18 | Also urgent , as he served her tea and she sat up in the bed , exposing her small breasts without a thought . |
| 19 | Blanche 's eyes widened and she sat forward on the kitchen chair . |
| 20 | Then there was silence and she sat down on the chest , weeping and shaking . |
| 21 | Her long , strong legs folded under her and she sat down on the rug in the hallway and sobbed to her heart 's content , while Alex patted her shoulder and wondered if he really understood his sister at all . |
| 22 | He flung his head to one side and muttered something , his face was twisted up ; he pushed himself away and fell out through the entrance and on to his knees , and she sat down on the floor for her legs felt weak and the wounded one was throbbing painfully , and she crawled over to Sycorax and lay down beside her and sobbed hot , dry grief until she at last fell asleep . |
| 23 | When you lower to the start position , do not touch the board ; if you do this , or if you sit up past the vertical position , then the abdominals will have a slight rest . |
| 24 | Oh yeah it was lovely , the only trouble was we had pigs outside the fucking window and we sat there with the bacon |
| 25 | The men had won their prestige from work , from scholarship , in the public arena ; and they sat outside on the pavement benches , publicly debating politics , theology , and history . |
| 26 | And they sat there on the computers and the woman said right everybody out , she 's an old battleaxe ! |
| 27 | If they sit back against the jolly green juggernaut they 'll get run over — make no mistake about it . |
| 28 | The fall seemed to bring Liam to his senses and he sat up on the road wondering where he was . |
| 29 | The back was broken and there was only one plank left to sit on , but I sat down on the peeling green paint . |
| 30 | But it sits uneasily with the often-heard principle that ‘ local services should respond to local needs ’ . |