Example sentences of "sit up [conj] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the first time people began to sit up and listen to the facts about a problem which used to be swept silently aside . |
| 2 | ‘ Well ? ’ she pressed him , sitting up and looking at the broad back facing her . |
| 3 | Thérèse sat up and fumbled for the light-switch that dangled from a cord beside the bed . |
| 4 | He sat up and stared at the sky in wonder . |
| 5 | He sat up and looked around the room . |
| 6 | It was early yet , she noted , and , feeling in no hurry to start a day that might well fall into the same luckless category as yesterday and the day before and the day before that , she sat up and leant against the headboard . |
| 7 | Mick 's head disappeared from the entrance to the trench as I sat up and listened to a shell burst close by . |
| 8 | Not daring to put on the light , she sat up and felt for the glass of water on the bedside table . |
| 9 | I sat up and turned on the bedside light to see the shadows in the room . |
| 10 | Isabel sat up and concentrated on the small casket he placed beside her . |
| 11 | Then quickly she sat up and fumbled in the darkness and found the sheet on which she had written . |