Example sentences of "[was/were] sit on [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He told us terrible tales of people being crushed in crowds , of school finances being wasted on unnecessary floor cleaning bills and of ‘ softies ’ who needed seats when there was a perfectly good floor to sit on ( all the teachers were sat on chairs around the edge of the sports hall at this point , but I do n't think they took it personally ) . |
| 2 | We were sitting on water , going down a great , deep stream , and then I realized we were on a board — like that board in the field — all white and covered with black lines . |
| 3 | Ten They were sitting on top of your bag outside . |
| 4 | People were sitting on chairs , the floor , drinking coffee and chatting , various newsletters and pamphlets on the floor in the middle . |
| 5 | Most of the people in the front room were sitting on couches or beanbags . |
| 6 | Those of us lucky enough to be in the choir were sitting on benches in the corridor beside the hall , an open corridor where we sat at right-angles to the rest of the school . |
| 7 | It was well into the charter business 's low season , so the vast majority of Cutwater 's yachts had either gone north for the summer or were sitting on jackstands out of the water . |
| 8 | on ends , so he took the two ends off , cleaned the rails and he was sat on settee watching telly rubbing away and rubbing away and I says hey you gon na put them ends back on ? |
| 9 | I remember a horrifying dream I had during one Wimbledon wherein I was sitting on top of a tall step-ladder half-way down the garden in the umpire 's position — not awarding points to the thrusting vegetation below but conducting them with a baton . |
| 10 | Springsteen was sitting on top of the stereo stack , looking out of the window into the darkening sky . |
| 11 | The goose was sitting on eggs and flew off as we approached . |
| 12 | She told police she was sitting on rocks at the edge of the Indian Ocean beach reading a book when the youths , aged around 15 , struck . |
| 13 | She was sitting on Claire 's bed with Annabel beside her and Annabel 's disgusting camel on her knee . |
| 14 | Why bother having an outside bell if the delicious Private Boyd was sitting on reception ? |
| 15 | Killion was sitting on Kimberley 's bed , reading one of Kimberley 's books , when Lambert came in . |