Example sentences of "sit [conj] [vb infin] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now he 'd sit and stare at those same walls made transparent by all the lights left on at night . |
| 2 | I had gone too far and experienced too much , I needed to slow down , to get back to the small things , the practical things , to measuring and cutting and fixing , and it was with relief that I noticed that daylight had begun to invade the room , I kept quite still , I held the glass firmly in my gaze , gradually the elements already worked on began to emerge , some more clearly than others , some in outline only and some only when they impeded the free flow of light through the glass , until the sun came up and was reflected back from the windows of the house opposite and I could sit and look at the glass and think back through the work and the mistakes and the few successes , and sense again with that sickening feeling in the pit of the stomach that the whole of the right hand side of the lower panel was still a mess , nothing there had been resolved , but then I drew back from that , though it kept trying to pull me back to itself , and concentrated on what was beginning to work , on the left hand areas both top and bottom and on the elegance of the frame and the joy of seeing the bare walls and the wainscoting appear through the empty areas , and as I moved round so different parts of the room appeared and the relation of the surface of the glass to what lay behind changed , precision and fluidity , precision and fluidity , he wrote , choice and chance , not choice alone and chance alone but the two together , that is why delay , not stoppage and not flow but delay , delay in glass , he wrote , as when the plane is late and you should have been gone , have already arrived perhaps , but you are still there , or the sprinter beats the gun and the whole field is called back , the race could have been over but it has not yet started . |
| 3 | No , she would just sit and look at us . ’ |
| 4 | Are you like Oscar Wilde , who said , ‘ I love work , I can sit and look at it for hours ’ ? |
| 5 | Sometimes he 'd sit and look at it , and his eyes would sting with the tears of despair . |
| 6 | Well if you go and sit in your chair nicely , you can sit and look at them as long as you look and do n't try and take them out They have to be delivered to you , wo n't they ? |
| 7 | right , cos they 'll not likely to say the money , they 'll just sit and look at you , right , and anyway you wan na find out exactly what their problem is , so before they even get the chance to say the money , you say to them , just erm , you know , just er make it clear to me what is it that you want to think about , is it the design of the windows ? |