Example sentences of "just [verb] there and " in BNC.
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| 1 | I du n no how long I sit there , I just sit there and sort of watch the cars go by . |
| 2 | Just sit there and do anything , do a bit of fishing . |
| 3 | ‘ For pity 's sake just sit there and try not to do anything silly for the time it takes me to fill two bowls with cawl . ’ |
| 4 | You may just sort of er form a picture in your mind just sit there and lip read sort of concentrate . |
| 5 | Cos we all just sit there and watch telly and we do n't talk ! |
| 6 | We 're not picking on you we 're just trying to get a conversation going here like , but it 's very hard when you just sit there and say nothing . |
| 7 | I was born a poor black boy down in Mississippi , out in Alabama and he 's like a jet white ai n't he ? and he says I always felt different cos all the other kids they just sit there and they 'd be tapping their feet and then you go onto the oh and they 're getting the old rhythm going , like they do and he 'd be going like I all so different I could n't quite do this and he used to get in look , and er |
| 8 | Just sit there and look out , that 's what you look onto . |
| 9 | But I mean you know what I 'm like in a car I just sit there and then then your father turned in and there was all these , where we went to get the carpet , you know ? |
| 10 | just sit there and she 's not allowed to answer back . |
| 11 | Cos you just sit there and , do you think you can lend me some money , please , I promise I 'll pay you back , and they 'll all give you about ten P , some of them give you fifty , some of them give you twenty got about , I was thinking you could just go in there and save up for all your Christmas shopping could n't you ? |
| 12 | Cos even when I , I 've been to see like , you know ones I just sit there and tend to go , yeah . |
| 13 | Just sit there and say nothing , and just see what happens . |
| 14 | Er yes , erm I told him to calm down because he was quite excitable and to just stay there and somebody would explain what it was all about . |
| 15 | Jenny just sits there and Leanne . |
| 16 | We , we actually lived in th the corner shop is right on the corner if you 've come up High street on the bus and your Co-op would be on that corner , your church and your Co-op 's on the corner , and just turns there and I only lived just down that street , so we never had to have it delivered because we just popped up er and my brother and I , I can so remember us going with our two big bags you know and we , you know how you do when families meet you know and he 'll say that 's the time , because dad , we never knew dad hit us and yet you 'd of thought he was , we , we were so scared it must have been his voice you know , that he erm that we was so scared that everything was all correct from the Co- op . |
| 17 | ‘ I just lay there and would n't move , ’ he said . |
| 18 | So after that I just lay there and let him do what he wanted and he would complain about that too . |
| 19 | He just lay there and he quietly slipped away — most unlike himself because he was normally such a noisy , impudent chap . |
| 20 | He just stands there and does it . |
| 21 | He 's just sat there and when he starts smiling |
| 22 | No , all I 'm saying is that I 'd like to support Don and what Don 's just said there and I think that er , we a that is what we are gon na have to do . |
| 23 | As we said earlier on , he had been they had been travelling through and Jesus had se settled down there for a while and sent his disciples into a , th a nearby town across the frontier , er to get some food and some provisions , er to last them for the remainder of their journey and Jesus is just sitting there by this well , he 's tired , he 's thirsty , weary and hungry , just waiting there and then this lady comes to draw water from the well . |
| 24 | Pigs , they just lie there and get fat ! |
| 25 | Just lying there and waiting . |
| 26 | Because you just stand there and hope someone 's gon na read your lips so you do n't have to do anything with your body ! |
| 27 | You just stand there and say , Who 's going to be here next week ? |
| 28 | And you never had no , no , no safety belts or nothing , just stand there and paint and stand on a piece of angle , if you only want the laugh out of it , cos the cranes down there are the swan lift cranes . |
| 29 | I 'm just going there and getting a pound book . |
| 30 | Now just , let's just pause there and take it in stages . |