Example sentences of "sit [adv prt] and [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I looked out of the window and it was the back garden of Dr Jane 's house , and when Mrs Pitt came up to serve me and I complained Dr Jane laughed , and it was really Dr Jane all the time and the whole place was horrible and dark and dirty and when I got outside to follow my friends the ones who were usually in the dream there were n't any people and we were in a sort of studio and the village and the inn it was so obvious now I felt a fool for going in and sitting down and expecting to be served was the crudest sort of cardboard stage set like a model for a child 's history lesson and the colours were horrible and it smelt of a sort of horrible glue and — — |
| 2 | Roy , 62 , said : ‘ We were fed up sitting down and waiting for people . |
| 3 | There is no alternative to sitting down and slogging through long lists of vocabulary . |
| 4 | ‘ Well ? ’ she pressed him , sitting up and looking at the broad back facing her . |
| 5 | Maggie announced , sitting up and looking at him seriously . |
| 6 | ‘ Hello , my dearies ! ’ said the tramp , sitting up and squinting at them . |
| 7 | I say , and laugh , sitting back and looking round the room at the bare paint walls and the constable sitting by the door . |
| 8 | It 's then a matter of sitting back and waiting for the calls ! |
| 9 | We 've got to be pro-active about this , it 's no good simply sitting back and waiting for whatever government is in power , to impose certain regulations , certain restrictions , certain proposals . |
| 10 | ‘ We take the view it is better to get a partly complete story with a whisper of opportunity and get it to one or two key companies quickly so they can get out there , rather than sitting back and waiting for a nicely tailored account of what is going on which , by the time we get it to them , will be history rather than opportunity , ’ he explains . |
| 11 | And I think that instead of sitting round and bitching about them , which you can do , it 's better to try to take more of an interest and make interesting videos , because if you 're a creative person I think you can make creative videos . ’ |
| 12 | He says no , he says any man wanting to build an extension on his house , he 's gon na sit down and gon na count the cost of it . |