Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] sit down [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 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 ?
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 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 !
7 Then there was silence and she sat down on the chest , weeping and shaking .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 The back was broken and there was only one plank left to sit on , but I sat down on the peeling green paint .
11 if you like the germ of the idea of the poem is alive in his mind because he sits down at the page thinking I 'm going to write a poem .
12 Before we sat down in the restaurant Jamila took me aside and kissed me on the mouth .
13 I enquired , as I sat down on the floor beside him .
14 When you sit down in the examination room with the usual small table in front of you , the situation should be familiar and comfortable from the long practice you have carried out .
15 She trailed a hand along an imaginary banister , sweeping the other behind where the skirts of a ball-gown would have trailed and was so tangibly created that when she sat down on the sofa Delia Sutherland moved to make room for the folds of that gown .
16 When she sat down at the table her mother said , ‘ Well , you can help yourself , I 've got my hands full here . ’
17 As she sat down at the table she said to the child , ‘ Sit up now . ’
18 Candles burned on the table where they were to dine and as she sat down at the table she banished the sob for evermore .
19 She was too to enjoy the hot weather and little beads of perspiration shone on her forehead as she sat down at the big desk opposite the row of girls .
20 ‘ I have n't forgotten how the Dalesfolk talk , you see , Mam , ’ she teased , as she sat down on the bench next to her mother .
21 As she sat down on the couch , Ben sat opposite her on the settle , his big body and large head topping the back of it while his short legs hardly touched the floor .
22 You 've a gift for this sort of thing , ’ declared Susan , as she sat down by the fire and gazed appreciatively round the room .
23 As we sat down to the first of many repetitive meals of salted fish and ground corn , I broached the question of finding a prahu which might carry us as far as Aru .
24 When they sat down at the kitchen table , Emily perched on the edge of her chair , and her hands were never still .
25 ‘ Because one thing 's for certain , Charlie Trumper , ’ she told him as they sat down in the little room at the back of Salmon 's to check the monthly accounts , ‘ you do n't know the first thing about butchery .
26 Each night he would be more red-eyed , hardly able to drag his feet with tiredness , his face caked white with lime , lime in his eyes and ears and nostrils , his throat dry , lime thick through his hair and clothes and when he sat down to the table he felt as if he were eating lime .
27 ‘ I did n't know you were home , ’ said Terry , as he sat down on the adjacent bed .
28 She perched herself uncomfortably on the only chair in the room as he sat down on the bed .
29 Dr Neil swallowed again as he sat down on the bed , not too near , not too far away .
30 ‘ Yes — yes , of course , ’ she murmured , taking a quick , nervous sip of coffee as he sat down on the bed beside her .
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