Sentence examples for start to sit from inspiring English sources

"When you have a huge bestseller like Gone Girl, which has at its heart a deeply flawed female protagonist, people start to sit up and take notice".

Only when the swill of duplicity, or worse, flows under the prime minister's door will Joe Public start to sit up and take notice.

The novelist Erica Jong, best known for her novel Fear of Flying, did start to sit for him with her large poodle, but unfortunately it died before the portrait was finished.

Mark Quayle, the substitute who scored the winning goal, said: "We deserved to win and hopefully people will start to sit up and really take notice of Conference football.

So try this drill: Start to sit down, and then pause and reverse your movement to rise up to stand.

When a fashion show "starts" at 1 pm, it really means that that's when people start to sit down; the actual show starts about 30 minutes late and lasts about ten minutes, which means that if you arrive unfashionably early you will be sitting and waiting for five times as long as it takes to watch the actual fashion show.

He is a person who is going to carry on what you have started, to sit where you are sitting and, when you are gone, attend to those things you think are so important.

I thought I'd finish the song sitting down, and as I started to sit down I passed out.

I started to sit with it, instead of fighting it.

Julia, 8 months old, was starting to sit up.

I'm already starting to sit on a chair.