Sentence examples for has sat up from inspiring English sources

Since then, the education secretary, Michael Gove, has "sat up and listened", says Ian Livingstone, one of the founders of the gaming company Games Workshop.

The cable channels are full of it, Washington has sat up and taken notice.

Google, it seems, has sat up and taken notice of this.

"And it is because so many women in our movement have demanded change that the country has sat up and taken notice".

When they receive the ballots (which offer the invigorating option of voting for none of the above), it is not unusual to find that someone has sat up all night crossing off the names of political enemies of Yevgeny Nazdratenko, the strongman regional governor.

I suspect many readers will have sat up with surprise on hearing the election result.

"English" departments across the world might have sat up to take note.

Rivals may have sat up and taken notice but most probably thought, 'Fabulous publicity.

North of the Border, however, in the last 24 hours, the public have sat up and taken notice.

He had sat up again when a man in a cowboy hat named Carlos Arredondo came bounding toward him.

A rabbit closer to the gate had sat up at my arrival, jaws still working mechanically with its last mouthful.