Sentence examples for sits late from inspiring English sources

In its latest review, Ipsa said MPs should get a pay rise of around £7,000 but lose the right to claim expenses for installing televisions in second homes, tea and biscuits for hospitality, contents insurance on a second home, and a £15 dinner if the Commons sits late.

Henn Collins wrote him a poem: My brother pray be warned by me And always rise in time for tea And when you feel you must sit late Remember my untoward fate Don't go on sitting until seven But sit next morning at eleven.

"In this session, the house sat late for 11 hours and 27 minutes," she said.

The upper house sat late for 11 hours to make up lost time.

"We often sat late [because of the caseload], once until 10pm.

So there he sat, late into the night, puzzling over the matter and trying to find some compromise.

Mr. Caruso himself seemed uncharacteristically relaxed and forthcoming as he sat late one afternoon, sipping coffee in a near-empty restaurant in Beverly Hills.

In the day time the street was dusty, but at night the dew settled the dust and the old man liked to sit late because he was deaf and now at night it was quiet and he felt the difference.

The two men sat late into the night drinking whisky and fruitlessly arguing the point.Mr Mbeki also refuses to encourage people to know their HIV status and to lessen stigma around the disease.

She'd done her proofreading jobs in the mornings, then painted or gone to painting class in the afternoons, whereas he had hardly strayed from his small room in his Susan's apartment, the room where he often sat late into the night, drinking — a fact he didn't let on to Jennifer.

By W. C. Bell and E. B. White The New Yorker, December 23 , 1933P. 7 We are told that, in Washington, the sound of tinkling bells this Christmas comes from a wholly unexpected source: it comes from policemen who sit, late at night, in the branches of the trees along Pennsylvania Avenue, ringing bells to frighten starlings.