Example sentences of "[noun sg] who sat [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | McQuade was a working-class Protestant , ex-soldier , docker , and professional boxer who sat for North Belfast and continued the independent unionist tradition of men like Henderson and Nixon . |
| 2 | ‘ You have the same wonderful face , but where is the kind and gentle boy who sat for my portrait ? |
| 3 | Wycliffe was startled by the question , which did not come from Sarah but from an old lady who sat on the far side of the fire . |
| 4 | If this is the best Europe has to offer , Hollywood 's producers will be sleeping more soundly than the old lady who sat in front of me during the screening . |
| 5 | A tall French-Canadian and a Japanese-American girl who sat with them had taken the precaution of handing their luggage over to someone in tourist class where the doors were locked for the duration of the journey . |
| 6 | The photograph was n't very much like the girl who sat on the other side of the desk , but passport photographs seldom are much like their originals . |
| 7 | ‘ This is April , ’ he said , indicating a nondescript , darkish girl who sat on a corner of the sofa . |
| 8 | He removed his arm from her shoulders and leaned back against the wall , his gaze still on the fair-haired young girl who sat on the bicycle , ready to move off , the wind blowing her skirt and hair . |
| 9 | I will never forget a girl who sat in the living-room of our home in Switzerland . |
| 10 | The girl who sat in the reception area and answered the switchboard was called Lucinda . |
| 11 | Unfortunately not , the only two that I knew were Al ( Byrne ) and Kev Daly ( Who also played in the youth FA cup final ) Because I went to school with them — they were both 2 years below me but Al 's brother was in my year and Kev went out with a girl who sat in front of me . |
| 12 | In fact , if it had n't been for Granpa I would n't even have been made to attend the local elementary school in Jubilee Street , and ‘ attend ’ was the right word , because I did n't do a lot once I 'd got there , other than bang the lid of my little desk and occasionally pull the pigtails of ‘ Posh Porky ’ , the girl who sat in front of me . |
| 13 | She began by waking up on the tail-end of absorbing conversations with the white-robed monk who sat on the chair beside her , and it was n't long before the discussions became a full-time activity . |
| 14 | Now there was her bantam hen to visit that tame favourite who sat on her head when she walked into the drawing room , the admiration of all , whose food she sometimes nibbled at . |
| 15 | Only then was she aware of the telegraphist who sat beside her , who smiled and gave her the thumbs-up sign . |
| 16 | ‘ If the country were governed from here , we 'd be far better off , ’ says a Tory peer who sat for three decades in the Commons . |
| 17 | Kragan did n't add that he had never trusted the newspaper proprietor who sat on the council . |
| 18 | There was the black coffin with its silvered ornaments and the mourner who sat at its head this time was a widowed husband ! |
| 19 | The person who sat at the side of the Secretary of State was the regional officer from Leeds . |
| 20 | As Sir Alan Walters once remarked , he is a cushion that ‘ bears the imprint of the last person who sat on him ’ . |
| 21 | It was the oriental gentleman who sat with them that sent the shudders down Doyle 's spine . |
| 22 | The only other person in the bar was a tramp who sat without a drink , muttering imprecations and occasionally turning and flashing his bloodshot eyes in the direction of some imaginary enemy to his right and stabbing the air with one crooked finger . |
| 23 | I am also the woman who sat at the crossroads . |
| 24 | What Katherine found daunting was the ambience within : the large unsmiling woman who sat at a table in the entrance hall and stiffly handed her two sheets of paper , one with a map of the school which showed her own room clearly marked , the other with a long list of instructions printed in four languages , French , German , Italian and English ; a smell which mingled disinfectant and scouring soap ; the difference in temperature between the stifling main body of the school and the chill of the outlying wing where she found her room . |
| 25 | She saw in her mind the woman who sat in the same seat day after day . |
| 26 | Arghatun was speaking at considerable length , but every so often he paused and the man who sat on the tail of the cart asked what appeared to be a series of questions . |
| 27 | He stood in the damp boots that leaked the snow wet to his socks , and he hated the man who sat at the desk . |
| 28 | But the man who sat with her now in the huge heated conservatory that overlooked the gently foaming waters of the bay , dotted here and there with the lights of bobbing buoys , seemed relaxed and clearly in his element . |
| 29 | Lehmann watched them laugh , his eyes drawn to the man who sat to the extreme right of the group . |
| 30 | She wished her father was like this young man who sat in his own shrine on a country kitchen dresser amongst used OHMS envelopes and sprigs of dried white heather . |