Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] sit [adv prt] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I just sat down and sorted it out . |
| 2 | So I just sat down and found time — in the middle of it all . |
| 3 | I spent a while some years ago just improving my chordal knowledge ; I just sat down and learned it , because I was playing with players who were a lot more advanced than I was , and because I was doing a lot of sessions and stuff . |
| 4 | No I always sit down and do me work but sometimes people just distract me all the time . |
| 5 | I usually sit in and watch telly or play sounds until she comes round and then we go out together . |
| 6 | ‘ The feeling was indescribable and nowadays when things do n't quite go as planned I often sit back and think of other jockeys who never had a Derby win and who , for the remainder of their careers , will be chasing this elusive rainbow . |
| 7 | I immediately sat down and wrote my one and only letter to NME , an angry broadside detailing what was wrong with the paper . |
| 8 | Why should I meekly sit down and take her schoolmistressly primness like a naughty boy . |
| 9 | I never sat down and played the same thing twice . |
| 10 | 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 |
| 11 | Do you just sit around and wait for inspiration ? ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Why do n't you just sit down and tell me the whole story from the beginning . ’ |
| 13 | Yeah , why do n't you just sit down and have our drink first . |
| 14 | So I came on the Monday night to the Guild and it , it was n't long after , only a matter of weeks , before this lady erm she er came back home from Canada seeing to some other woman and er she just sat down and died . |
| 15 | She hurriedly sat up and glared edgily at him . |
| 16 | Is the story true that you actually sat down and drew the design on a paper napkin ? |
| 17 | A terrible , drunken tiredness filled her and she too sat back and shut her eyes . |
| 18 | So what I 'm saying is erm I happen to think that the A L O stuff is some of the most valuable stuff that we do , it 's really one of the main ways forward and if we just sit back and do nothing about it it 's gon na just be wiped out at a a swipe . |
| 19 | ‘ We have discussed our marriage many times over the last four or five years and then we just sat down and put everything into perspective . |
| 20 | ‘ If we simply sit back and do nothing , we could lose both mother and baby . |
| 21 | Then we e enhanced it and then eventually er Robin knocked this up you see from all the work we 'd done , but we never sat down and went through this . |
| 22 | They just sit back and relax . |
| 23 | Some prefer to have a regular time when they purposely sit down and talk about themselves , their feelings and their hurts . |
| 24 | A sharp word of command and they immediately sat down and waited as their mistress opened the car door . |
| 25 | I was beginning to think that the staring match would never stop when he suddenly sat down and began to finger some papers on the top of his desk . |
| 26 | Where he now sat down and nursed his hangover . |
| 27 | Marguerite looked at her son in utter bewilderment and he simply sat back and smiled . |
| 28 | If the victim is not edible the reptile quickly slithers away into hiding , but if it is a suitable prey it simply sits back and waits for the animal 's agonies to cease . |
| 29 | His plan was endorsed ; he then sat down and wrote a letter to the Director of Education in Bath Street ; and that gentleman 's reply was positive . |
| 30 | As far as I could ever determine , he really did do that — he actually sat down and wrote a song for them because he liked them and did n't want them to go away . |