Example sentences of "sit [adv prt] [conj] [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did not ask her to sit down but said to her straightaway , ‘ What has she told you ? ’ |
| 2 | And so he asked this girl Jane and , and then he asked me and erm and er had I sat down and thought about it I could have said well er what I thought , you know , the correct way er but I thought well there 's correct and there 's correct and I think the right way is to write to it and to say yes thanks |
| 3 | I suppose I 'd never really sat down and cried about it , ’ she recalls . |
| 4 | With Elton , the joy of it is that at least you 're quite familiar with a lot of the stuff , and even if you have n't actually sat down and worked through it you know how the songs go . |
| 5 | As a practical measure , keep a full record of all jobs that you apply for and the responses that you receive to show that you have not simply sat back and waited for the money to roll in . |
| 6 | I jumped off the bank I was sitting on and ran for the ball , elated . |
| 7 | So when he had seen the sign ahead of him in the street , he 'd walked right in and sat down and demanded to be attended to . |
| 8 | She hoisted the baby on to her hip and dragging a chair close up to the television set , sat down and stared at the blank screen . |
| 9 | I was totally staggered at receiving the letter and sat down and stared at it . |
| 10 | He sat down and stared at the gifts quite speechless . |
| 11 | She sat down and stared at her ice cream . |
| 12 | She murmured good morning , sat down and stared at her open notebook , the tip of her pen poised above the clean page . |
| 13 | Whole tribes of proud and even magnificent people have at times sat down and died for no other reason than that their ancient culture has been exposed , even briefly , to one that seems to belong to a superior order . |
| 14 | I sat down and leant against the wall , trying to decide what to do . |
| 15 | Jackson recently sat down and listened through his collected works , prior to making selections for the current live show , and found the thread wearing a little thin in places . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | I caught a bit of it on and we sat down and went to sleep . |
| 18 | Dickinson sat down and looked at the adjutant , appalled . |
| 19 | But after he sat down and thought about it he came in and apologised to the lads . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ But after he sat down and thought about it he has come in and apologised to the lads and realised he maybe should not have said it . |
| 21 | He 's probably walked in and seen that and thought , I 'm not having this and when he sat down and thought about it , like we 've done |
| 22 | And so Inchbad sat down and beamed at Fenella and said they would be interested to hear her stories and , at the same time , nodded to the waiting Fiachra Broadcrown to get the Fidchell squares ready for the Gnomes . |
| 23 | Shrugging her superb shoulders , Comfort sat down and waited for his explanation . |
| 24 | ‘ I sat down and said to the doctor ‘ So I have cancer ’ and he said ‘ Yes ’ . |
| 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 | The Captain sat down and reached for the telephone . |
| 27 | And she sat down and proceeded to slowly tell Alyssia about herself . |
| 28 | But still the urge to express her feelings tormented her and at last , in defiance of that dislike she had felt on their last meeting , she sat down and wrote to the person to whom she had once been most close , to Mrs Browning . |
| 29 | Fernando sat down and leaned towards her , taking her small hot hand in his . |
| 30 | She sat down and leaned against the bole of the tree , watching him . |