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not go to bed
Don't stay up so late--you have to go to work tomorrow
We sat up all night to watch the election -
change to an upright sitting position
He sat up in bed
How To Use sit up In A Sentence
- A pause in lecturing, consequent upon our mid-year examinations having begun, has given me a little respite, and I am paying a three days 'visit upon an old friend here, meaning to leave for New York to-morrow, where I have a couple of lectures to give. Familiar Letters of William James II
- But one spam email this week really made me sit up. Times, Sunday Times
- Then, I sit up, with my hands pressed to a bottom board of the shelf, pushing myself upwards.
- Now then, try to sit up and have some of this soup.
- They expected me to sit up and shoot the breeze with them till one or two in the morning.
- It's a shocking, audacious moment - one of the few times the film makes you sit up and take notice.
- A deep sigh resonated out of me as I tried to sit up.
- And then Ulster paid the penalty for those misses when the Saints again paid a rare visit upfield for Grayson to level with an angled kick.
- If your eyelids flickered, he'd sit up waiting for some indication that it wouldn't be long before the first long stroll of the day.
- It was certainly intended that Charles should sit up to his neck in warm salt water for ten minutes, and Mr Young says that with the plaister, and with the greasy, and resisting quality of the ointment, that the water would not penetrate near so much as you seem to suppose it would. Letter 170
