Example sentences of "who sat [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You have the same wonderful face , but where is the kind and gentle boy who sat for my portrait ? |
| 2 | There was the black coffin with its silvered ornaments and the mourner who sat at its head this time was a widowed husband ! |
| 3 | " In that case I 'll accompany you , " he said abruptly , and offered her his arm like the gentleman he wanted to be , so that the women and old men who sat at their doorways in West Street stared in amazement at the unprecedented sight of Harry Pascoe on an errand of mercy with his wife . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Harry turned to his youngest son , who sat on his left and who was the family favourite . |
| 6 | If the inevitably deformed critics who admired his work — and the critics who sat with their faces pointing up at us did seem to have the countenances of gargoyles , while the aisles were crammed with their wheelchairs — knew of certain weaknesses — certain indulgences , let us say — they would see Pyke 's work in a different light . |
| 7 | Erm er I 'm very grateful to Dr and I 'll offer him another story , a woman who 's now died whom I used to visit who sat with her coal fire set but not lit until someone would come to the door . |
| 8 | The girl , accompanied by a policewoman and two social workers , was seen in private by Sheriff George Crozier , who sat with his gown and wig on . |
| 9 | Sir Fulke pointed to Rastani who sat with his dark face fearful and anxious . |
| 10 | The Dawn of Dreams had been a family affair ; the producer 's credit was for Robert Forbes , Jo 's father and Lorna 's husband , who sat beside his wife , his long , elegant legs half-hidden in the ultramarine satin folds of her skirt . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | GREATER love hath no man for his three small grandsons than a 71-year-old friend of ours who sat in his car all night outside a Cardiff toy store to make sure he was first in line for a much-wanted Thunderbirds Tracy Island from Santa . |
| 13 | Cranston stopped to enquire directions of one of the market stewards who sat in his little toll booth on the corner of Wood Street . |
| 14 | A harsh judgement would occasionally be reprieved by intervention from his sister , who sat by his side where she judged the women . |
| 15 | Joe straightened his back against the wooden chair , at the same time reaching out and placing one hand flat on the edge of the long polished table and , looking across at Mr Beecham and James Holden , who sat by his side , he said slowly but firmly , ‘ I have no intention of … of living in the house after today . |