Example sentences of "[noun pl] sit on [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | MAFF is to allow scientists proposed by consumer groups to sit on its Advisory Committee on Pesticides . |
| 2 | The two Yorkshire Puddings sit on his lap looking at the world through angel hair matted with dried spit . |
| 3 | Personal Bankers sit on your side of the counter so they are easy to talk to . |
| 4 | The sturdy drawing room ( living-room was still an unborn word ) of Kileady was devised to accommodate and celebrate the outdoor life : many dog baskets sat on its beige carpet , many pictures by Lionel Edwards and Snaffles hung on its ivory walls . |
| 5 | Whilst the record companies sat on their hands , nervous of another quadraphonic-style fiasco , Karajan announced after seeing the new technology as a working prototype that he would make no new recordings and sign no new contracts with any company that was not committed to digital recording and the earliest possible launch of the compact disc . |
| 6 | She felt every one of her thirty some years sitting on her face , and stared at this disoriented stranger , her self . |
| 7 | As we chatted , most of the five dogs sat on my feet . |
| 8 | coats sitting on you ? |
| 9 | He tricked our neighbours to sit on it and they were never seen again . |
| 10 | Walkers find a waterfall at the end of a butterfly haunted gorge , abandoned hilltop villages , hamlets where old ladies sit on their doorsteps spinning wool , and boatyards where the adze is busier than the plane . |
| 11 | Old friends Sat on their park bench Like book ends . |
| 12 | And then the table where the girls sat on their typewriters , then there was a on this on a hall , you came into a hall . |
| 13 | It is understood some of her attackers sat on her to pin her to the floor while others battered her round the head with baseball bats . |
| 14 | They raved about what they called my ‘ Van Gogh ’ hair ( a naturally pale yellow at the time ) , and Helen welcomed me because , as she said , I had fairies sitting on my shoulder . |
| 15 | We sat on the hall floor , cross-legged , in our forms , with our form-mistress beside us , so as the Headmistress stood on the platform , she looked down upon a sea of faces , rows and rows of black-stockinged legs , and a long line of mistresses sitting on their chairs . |
| 16 | At the archway which divides the suyo of puro papa , where women sit on their hunkers , feet planted in the soft earth , and hack small potatoes out with their hoes , and the suyo of pura oca with its neat rows of bunched , dark green leaves , carriers stop and rest their bundles on the wall . |
| 17 | The large dark hall-piece stood there to her left with the tenants ' letters sitting on it . |
| 18 | While the adults sat on their forms we sat ourselves down on an assortment of broken chairs borrowed from the neighbours . |
| 19 | They must be nesting in the rabbit-holes beneath the turf where the tent was pitched , and in the broch , where the queer chemical smell I had noticed came , not from the plants , but from the holes where the birds sat on their eggs . |
| 20 | Pairing allows Tory MPs to sit on their boards of directors , manipulate your pension funds , to rally support for their party , and enhance their salaries . |