Example sentences of "[adv] sit [adv prt] on the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Right sit up on the chair and we 'll read the story of the jumble sale . |
| 2 | To actually just sit back on the hands , as the government are doing , is not a policy , it 's an abdication of responsibility . |
| 3 | Descending the stone steps from the station platform , Durham turned up the gas and had just sat down on the bench and opened his bait tin when he was startled by the apparition of a strange man followed by a large black retriever dog emerging from the coal cellar . |
| 4 | Now it was soothing to just sit out on the terrace and watch the night unfold . |
| 5 | The Red and the Black , a crossword-puzzle book , and How to Train Your Labrador — he had toyed for years with the idea of owning a Labrador — also sat about on the dressing-table and the floor unread . |
| 6 | Surviving reports and other evidence show that he also sat in on the hearing of ordinary civil litigation in at least five counties . |
| 7 | James Scott stood in the centre of the small room for a moment , looking round , then sat down on the edge of the bottom bunk . |
| 8 | He shrugged , then sat down on the edge of the bed and took her hand . |
| 9 | He again sat down on the settle opposite her , and sipped a glass of beer before saying thoughtfully , ‘ Funny , when you come to think about it , but it 's what happens when you 're a bairn that sets the pattern for a man or woman , in most cases anyway . ’ |
| 10 | And he actually sat down on the edge of the bath and pulled off his right shoe and thrust it under my nose . |