Example sentences of "sit around the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We rarely took a vote sitting around the board table . |
| 2 | You get all those those yobbos sitting around the sort of er the you know . |
| 3 | One night , at home in the beach house he and Astrid , their son Alexander and I were sharing , Den had a few Scotches sitting around the piano and revealed a talent for playing ‘ Smoke Gets In Your Eyes ’ with his nose . |
| 4 | We had finished dinner and were sitting around the campfire . |
| 5 | would you be sitting around the fire ? |
| 6 | Then 30 minutes back home again and about another four hours sitting around the house before retiring to bed . |
| 7 | She adds : ‘ I 've worked since I was married 15 years ago and I could n't imagine just sitting around the house all day . |
| 8 | They seemed to be positioned at random as if the guests had been playing a game with them and not sitting around the table in an orderly fashion . |
| 9 | ‘ You only had to look at the faces sitting around the table at base camp to know that they were physically and mentally finished . ’ |
| 10 | Here they were , the wise ones , sitting around the table contemplating their divine duty . |
| 11 | The best time to get people to talk about themselves is when you are sitting around the table over a meal or having tea , and when they are relaxed and are not likely to be diverted by other activities . |
| 12 | One Sunday when our relatives were visiting , the whole family was sitting around the table enjoying a lovely roast dinner when my mum said to my elderly gran : ‘ Mum , is your dinner all right ? ’ |
| 13 | Can I ask if everyone sitting around the table has now or has had access to plan policy guidance note number twelve ? |
| 14 | The Muslim Palestinian defenders of Beaufort were ignorant of all this , sitting around the walls in silence when I told them of this historical the old tale of fear , treachery and pain . |
| 15 | Despite the noise and the modern dress of the customers , it was not difficult to imagine men with clay pipes sitting around the hearth of The Black Dog on windy , wet nights . |
| 16 | The women sitting around the room had begun to stir once they had seen the money . |
| 17 | With no reason not to come in — since it was the spirit of the house that people should sit around the kitchen table talking — they seemed to sense a unity , to know they were not wanted . |
| 18 | If people are gon na sit around the house while they 're unemployed , they 're probably the same people who sit around the house when they 're on a Saturday and Sunday when they 're working you know . |
| 19 | ’ And although the old folk do not sit around the fire any more telling stories as they once did — many of the yarns told by Mr Murray 's own father have found their way into his poetry — there are always the excitements and discoveries of the present by way of compensation . |
| 20 | Everyone buggers off I mean you sit around the parents ' car and you have the lunch with your sort of so |
| 21 | If people are gon na sit around the house while they 're unemployed , they 're probably the same people who sit around the house when they 're on a Saturday and Sunday when they 're working you know . |
| 22 | I 'm not the sort of guy that sits around the house like you know . |
| 23 | Well us used to sit around the table , give granny her bottle and a glass , then us 'd play a game of cards , see . |
| 24 | We sat around the square feasting on barbecued chicken and beer . |
| 25 | At a place called Morro Chico there was a tiny inn where we sat around the stove ourselves . |
| 26 | Afterwards , they sat around the deck , and the smallest order was received with an angry look . |
| 27 | The dead sat around the edge of the game and watched , knowing the secrets . |
| 28 | That night they sat around the turf fires discussing the events of the day . |
| 29 | Carrie sat around the bed with her mother and Fred chatting for a while , and it was not too long before they saw Joe Maitland coming down the ward . |
| 30 | It was a pretty despondent group that sat around the fire of the LRDG patrol , each sunk in his own thoughts . |