Example sentences of "she [was/were] sitting [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lee was cold suddenly as if she were sitting in a seawind . |
| 2 | She was sitting at a table in the recreation room with her relatives round her . |
| 3 | In the picture , Miss Ray was wearing a very short skirt and she was sitting on a swing . |
| 4 | She was sitting on a stool beside her mother 's chair and Julia laid her hand against Anne 's cheek . |
| 5 | But deep down she 'd known she was sitting on a plane bound for the Caribbean because she wanted to be . |
| 6 | At that precise time , she was sitting on a bench in the middle of the corridor , at a carefully calculated point that should be just out of sight from the security cameras at either side . |
| 7 | She was sitting on a shooting stick . |
| 8 | She was sitting on a rug on the long narrow lawn which lay behind the house , with a pile of books and a baby . |
| 9 | When he met Eileen Ryan she was sitting on a bank with a dazed look , her bicycle up-ended in a ditch . |
| 10 | She was sitting in a cinema watching a film . |
| 11 | She was sitting in a chair , her feet on a footstool , and a boy in a sailor suit stood beside her . |
| 12 | A couple of hours later , when he had been talking non-stop on the telephone , she was sitting in a chair half asleep . |
| 13 | She was sitting in a chair , nursing her ankle . |
| 14 | She was sitting in a gap in the outer wall , and as I approached her , she said , ‘ You look as though you 've seen a ghost . ’ |
| 15 | She was sitting in a seat at the front of the plane with two young men . |
| 16 | She was sitting in a corner of the drawing-room , nearest the door , when she saw a Miss Hutton coming towards her . |
| 17 | Once she kept me hanging around for an hour and a half , which might sound like a backward step , but you have to remember she was sitting in a place of her own choice , and was taking it all in . |
| 18 | She was sitting in a daze on the edge of the bed when a head came round the partition , saying , ‘ You had better put a move on else you 'll get scalped . ’ |
| 19 | When the Golf pulled up outside her house in a quiet suburb of Alès , she was sitting beneath a pergola on the terrace overlooking the road with a book on her lap . |
| 20 | She was sitting before a mirror that was propped against a large pan on the stove . |