Example sentences of "could [adv] sit " in BNC.
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| 1 | Could our bodies glow red when we only have a day left so we could all sit down and wait comfortably and then when we snuff it we could just disappear . |
| 2 | As defeat followed defeat , the millions watching the world champion 's slump in form on TV could only sit and wonder . |
| 3 | I could only sit and marvel that some things are the same the world over . |
| 4 | There was nothing General Francis could do , and because of his arthritis he could only sit with any comfort on a hard chair . |
| 5 | She could only sit down and cry . |
| 6 | Stunned , Isabel could only sit there , ensnared by the caressing warmth of his mouth . |
| 7 | The ordinary German people could only sit and watch while he reduced their homes , possessions and friends to rubble and a tangled , indistinguishable mess . |
| 8 | And you could easy sit in there and in this big place that I speak about there was two sways |
| 9 | Then , I thought , we could finally sit down and take it easy . |
| 10 | We could just sit back and collect rents from an ever-decreasing number of tenants . |
| 11 | The rest of us could just sit and twiddle our thumbs and drink iced coffee . |
| 12 | But I found I could just sit down and play by ear . |
| 13 | ‘ We could be here for hours , ’ said Wilson , into whose tired brain had crept the thought that they could just sit down and have a little sleep until they were found . |
| 14 | I remember that one of us , I can not recall which , made the cynical remark that what we really wanted was a similar type of aircraft to the one that had crashed , in which the auto-pilot could be connected up with the flight recorder — then we investigators could just sit and watch the accident happen all over again . |
| 15 | Back in Hinterzarten there are festivals , spa concerts , guided walking tours , tennis classes , canoeing and mountain biking — or you could just sit in the company of delicious pastries at one of the peaceful cafés . |
| 16 | I imagined he could just sit down , perhaps at the typewriter to which he had recourse even for poetry , and produce the requisite text . |
| 17 | The house and land could just sit there and Monsieur Lemarchand 's mother could sit wherever she was and wait . |
| 18 | How he could just sit there in that silence was the hardest thing I have ever tried to figure out . |
| 19 | Well he does n't even need to say anything at all actually you could just sit down , erm and start to write a poem about what he imagines . |
| 20 | you have to go and my dad where where it was just clean and you could just sit on it but nowhere Sarah 's side . |
| 21 | Her balance was very poor ; she could not stand up on her own , because strong associated reactions would pull her left side over ; her left Achilles tendon was extremely tight ; her left shoulder was very painful ; her arm was pulled into a bent position , with the hand tightly closed in a fist ( flexor spasm ) ; she could hardly sit up straight because of the severe spastic muscle pull on the left side of her body ; her mother had to push Dawn everywhere in her wheelchair , and give her total nursing support . |
| 22 | I was grateful to him because I was really shaking with fear , so much so that poor Dawn could hardly sit up straight on my hand . |
| 23 | Next day Henry , though in such agony that he could hardly sit on his horse , met Philip and Richard at Ballon and there agreed to the terms which they dictated . |
| 24 | I felt so heavy I could hardly sit up properly . ’ |
| 25 | I could hardly sit still . |
| 26 | ‘ No thank you , ’ said Penelope , feeling that he could hardly sit there eating a sandwich unless she did too . |
| 27 | And that 's why he says to sleep and then if she could n't get to sleep she could like sit up tonight so he could get some sleep instead . |
| 28 | But the essence remains the same : a Chief Leader has his team of leaders ; the young explorers are divided into 12-strong ‘ fires ’ — a notion of Murray Levick 's , who said he wanted only as many people as could decently sit round a campfire . |
| 29 | Mm and there was a verandah there so , if I did n't go out , you know , I could always sit on the verandah and watch them surfing . |
| 30 | Well we could always sit on the seat when we come back . |