Converse of object

• stage: More students staged a sit-in outside NATO headquarters in Naples.

• hold: The two have refused to pay fines imposed after they held a sit-in at the Lancashire County Council's offices in Preston.

• join: Finally there was a ' dawa ' or invitation for people to join the sit-in.

• start: They started a student sit-in at the restaurant of their local Woolworth's store which had a policy of not serving black people.

• organize: James Farmer became National Director of the Congress of Racial Equality in 1953 and he helped organize student sit-ins during 1961.

• lead: He led mass sit-ins in 1961 that brought him a two-month prison sentence, which was reduced to seven days on health grounds.

Preposition: at

• restaurant: They started a student sit-in at the restaurant of their local Woolworth's store which had a policy of not serving black people.

Adjective modifier

• virtual: In January, the Anonymous Digital Coalition issued a plan for virtual sit-ins on five web sites of Mexico City financial corporations.

• first: So a group of us organized what was in effect Oxford's first sit-in in the governing building.

Modifies a noun

• protest: Peaceful sit-in protests have been going on for more than four months.

• custom: This sandwich bar franchise benefits from a good mix of sit-in custom, takeaway trade and a regular delivery business.

• strike: They staged a sit-in strike in a last ditch effort to keep the company going.

• demonstration: On the local level, a sit-in demonstration held on February 15, 1960 in Chattanooga, led to a race riot.

• bath: The bathroom is fully equipped with sit-in bath and also electric shower.

Noun used with modifier

• stage: Asylum man stages sit-in 23-12-2003 A LOCAL community has rallied to support an asylum seeker who is facing deportation.

• student: The student sit-in was a peaceful protest in the turbulent politics of the 1970s.

• chair: Shelter's nationwide red chair sit-in: Shelter's red chair sit-in protest is visiting 26 towns across Britain over the next four months.

Preposition: in

• parliament: And there is a sit-in in the Ukrainian parliament.