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sat up and took notice

sat up and took notice is the simple past of sit up and take notice.

Meaning of sit up and take notice

Verb

sit up and take notice (third-person singular simple present sits up and takes notice, present participle sitting up and taking notice, simple past sat up and took notice, past participle sat up and taken notice)

  1. To start to pay attention suddenly.
    • But when we streaked through Doncaster at all but a mile-a-minute, with a miraculously clear road, in no more than 37 min. 18 sec. from the York start, I began to sit up and take notice.1949 November and December, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 365

Questions about sat up and took notice

What is sat up and took notice the simple past of?
Sat up and took notice is the simple past of sit up and take notice.

Words near sat up and took notice in the dictionary

  1. sat through
  2. sat tight
  3. sat under
  4. sat up
  5. sat up and taken notice
  6. sat up and took notice
  7. sat up with
  8. sat upon
  9. sat with
  10. SAT word
  11. SAT words

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