Example sentences of "sitting [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I really thought we was going to end with erm , , cos he was sitting right at the top branch , you know sawing merrily through . |
| 2 | She turned round and looked at the brass-dialled clock sitting starkly on a red brick wall to the side of them and added , ‘ Only half-past eight . ’ |
| 3 | They were sitting together over a rough table in a room in a farmhouse outside Abergavenny . |
| 4 | The night was wild and stormy , and we were all sitting together in the big kitchen . |
| 5 | SPRING 1957 , THE ASHLEY FAMILY SITTING JUST OUTSIDE THE FRONT DOOR AT EAST COTTAGE . |
| 6 | One late summer morning when Celia was getting on for four years old , Harriet drove back to Four Winds after one of her solo shopping-trips and was surprised to find Liza sitting outside with a young woman of about her own age . |
| 7 | City walls , narrow streets , open shutters , old women sitting outside in the early evening . |
| 8 | was sitting comfortably on a low branch on a tall pine tree in the Wakefield 's back garden , she had her knees up round her chin and was leaning against the trunk , this was Elizabeth 's thinking seat , the place that she went to be alone , there was a lot to think about , tomorrow Mrs , Mr Davis her form teacher would announce the winner of the class essay contest . |
| 9 | I thought this a stupid attitude , rather as if people sitting comfortably in a first-class railway carriage should complain that being an engine driver was a filthy occupation . |
| 10 | When she woke up that morning , with just a small hope in the corner of her heart , she found Patsy already awake , sitting upright in the old cot they still shared , his dark brown eyes shining with excitement from under his mop of brown hair . |
| 11 | The place was heaving when we arrived ; there must have been a thousand people squashed into the confines of the Blue Angel club , all waiting to do three minutes for Les Cox and his production team , sitting invisibly beyond the strong footlights on the small stage . |
| 12 | The tea and cakes had been cleared and everyone was sitting now in the big couch and the two fireside armchairs . |
| 13 | I was pleased to be sitting here with a strong drink , pleased that I was n't staked out on the basement floor , playing the romantic lead in a snuff movie . |
| 14 | Sitting here as a British judge it is my duty to tell you that this is not a country in which there is one law for the rich and another for the poor . |
| 15 | While permanent courts were established in the main centres of population , High Court judges continued to be itinerant , backed up by circuit judges sitting continuously in the main centres . |
| 16 | His mother was sitting proudly in the fourth row , wearing a silver lamé dress . |
| 17 | To his surprise , when they got to the pub , he found Valerie Cass sitting there over a large gin . |
| 18 | She was sitting there with the pink blanket spread over her , the hot water-bottle on her ankles . |
| 19 | Well tough he 's not getting my , he 's not getting the ensuite room , I can tell you If I if I have got three lodgers and I 'm getting on with them and they 're they 're paying me regularly for the sake of an extra twenty pounds or whatever and the annoyance from Tony coming in at ten a or there abouts and then sitting there like a stuffed frock waiting for me to leap about and put food on a plate and microwave it not doing it , Brenda ! |
| 20 | ‘ Shamus sitting there like a stuck pig , and Kevin lookin' at his teacup . |
| 21 | was utterly peaceful , sitting there in the hot sun with the scent of thyme around me and a view of distant Hymettos over the tiled roofs of Athens . |
| 22 | I was still sitting there in the early evening , staring out to sea when a young forestry worker from the town found me . |
| 23 | Time went by until a whole hour had passed but it was restful sitting there in the homely room with its smell of damp wool . |
| 24 | They then worked slowly through the chronology , all the parties sitting informally round a small table ; so informal , in the mythology , that the subsequent TV docudrama put Meese in a startling pink-and-lavender tracksuit , drinking coffee from a mug . |
| 25 | Dalziel sighed and looked over at Pascoe who was sitting quietly in the furthermost comer of the room . |