Example sentences of "i sit down [coord] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , I certainly find that if I sit down and play blues for forty-five minutes or an hour , it 's hard to get back into the rock feel . |
| 2 | the people , because you know normally if a student comes to see me , I sit down and have an hour and half 's discussion |
| 3 | ‘ I sit down and say to myself , how can I convert a mileage reading of one hundred and fifty thousand into only ten thousand without taking the speedometer to pieces ? |
| 4 | Do you mind if I sit down and drink my tea ? start tea . |
| 5 | If I sit down and talk to I 've said this and I 'll say it I 've said it ad nauseam . |
| 6 | There 's a wooden bench by the side of the path , so I sit down and stretch my legs out . |
| 7 | 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 |
| 8 | ‘ An hour later I sat down and began to write the script . ’ |
| 9 | I sat down and began to cry . |
| 10 | I sat down and began switching my tail from side to side to let her know that I was constantly alert and maybe a little unpredictable . |
| 11 | all I I sat down and visualized and then did it . |
| 12 | Still clapping , I sat down and looked to see how his team-mates were taking it . |
| 13 | Finally , I sat down and said ‘ OK , let's forget about all that and do what we need to get it turned round . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I sat down and said to the doctor ‘ So I have cancer ’ and he said ‘ Yes ’ . |
| 15 | 12.55 : I sat down and had lunch with the kids . |
| 16 | well we went on a course , for a week up Newcastle and of course er erm we had to be there for nine o'clock so we had to catch the bus , at the latest half past eight so you 're up at you 're up at seven and you get showered and what have you cos there 's a shower in the be bedroom get yourself all ready so you 're down by about erm half seven , quarter to eight , like so you tend to think quarter of an hour to the erm bus stop which is right outside the door of the hotel we were getting so and we use the bus rather than take the car in daily , cos it 's easier so I and er and of course I sat down and had a breakfast and I thoroughly enjo , I did n't have any cereals you know , I says well er and I had a little bit of orange orange juice , but it was this erm made up orange juice |
| 17 | I sat down and read further . |
| 18 | Then I sat down and wrote my family a letter . |
| 19 | It had to be in on the 7th October and we came back the beginning of September , so it was a bit of a rush , and that 's really one of my feelings about it — I sat down and wrote it off the top of my head and not an awful lot is very considered . |
| 20 | I sat down and took off my shoes and socks — I was wearing slacks and trainers — and then walked across the bay , luxuriating in the feel of the fine warm sand under my bare feet . |
| 21 | Mum and Dad were dozing in their chairs but Dad opened his eyes as I sat down and asked if I 'd enjoyed the picture . |
| 22 | I sat down and leant against the wall , trying to decide what to do . |
| 23 | I sat down and opened my notebook . |
| 24 | I sat down and tried to regain some sense of equilibrium . |
| 25 | Anyway , I sat down and tried to put you right out of my head by immersing myself in work . |
| 26 | I sat down and did n't say a word . ’ |
| 27 | For three weeks I had nothing to do and I sat down and decided — I have recorded all these pieces before — to see if there was not something more behind the music . |
| 28 | Then to the tune of ‘ By the waters of Babylon I sat down and wept ’ , we sang another version of the words . |
| 29 | I sat down and watched them while the humans played up in the trees , swam in the pool and played games in the grass . |
| 30 | My husband 's always coming home and saying ‘ Oh I sat down and talked to so-and-so today ’ or ‘ we had a laugh today with so-and-so … ’ |