Example sentences of "[noun] and [pers pn] [be] sitting " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's my seat and I 'm sitting here . |
| 2 | A few minutes later the Deruta vase containing about half a kilo of assorted chocolates had been placed on the rear seat of the Volvo and he was sitting in the front watching Cinzia tear up the parking ticket which had been tucked under the windscreen wiper . |
| 3 | Fairfax and I are sitting on the verandah at Folly Farm . |
| 4 | Anyway he looked like that he had a red car and he was sitting in the car and he put them down like that and they were like that in the car and after I thought I should 've popped at her house see if she 's wearing that in the house I thought you git . |
| 5 | One Sunday afternoon , when Dana and I were sitting on the edge of the bed working over versions of various poems , the door , which we always left unlocked , suddenly burst open and a group of surly-looking students entered , led by a big bully who was not Spanish but Venezuelan . |
| 6 | In the picture , Miss Ray was wearing a very short skirt and she was sitting on a swing . |
| 7 | I used to get home absolutely exhausted from work and he was sitting there and he 'd say , " What 's for dinner then ? " |
| 8 | Mick and I were sitting beside Paddy , who was driving , when there was a loud bang . |
| 9 | and up the steps out of the underground there was this lass there and I , I ca n't help it I mean I 'm always aware of the fact of having this twenty five year old child , so offspring and there was a girl roughly about his age or slightly younger and she was grey you know that translucent look your skin gets when you 're not eating properly you know that grey sort of pallor and I had an overnight bag in one hand and a briefcase and a handbag in the other and I remember I walked past her and she was begging and I had gone to the sleeper and I 'm sitting there and I 'm thinking you bleep bleep bleep bleep bleep bleep bleep bleep , you could of put briefcase down , overnight bag down , handbag down and got some money out . |
| 10 | I 'm in the dark hotel at the side of the black loch and it 's close to midnight and I 'm drunk but not stoned and so 's Andy and his pal Howie and I 'm sitting in the old ballroom on the lower ground floor , looking out over the waters to where grey ghostly moonlit mountains rise , tops glowing softly , capped with snow , and I 'm playing computer games . |
| 11 | Dolores O'Riordan and three other blokes and me are sitting in a van that 's parked in a yard behind Charlie 's Bar where later on The Cranberries will bring tears to the eyes of grown men and ensure that all present can say ‘ yes ’ when asked if their weekend was happy and filled with nice things . |
| 12 | I like that , I , I think it 's really sweet when she 's taking those tablets and he 's sitting there |
| 13 | And now , on a clear morning , Graham Little and I are sitting at the bottom of the wall , fit and ready to go , and the wall is plastered with verglas . |
| 14 | My sister and I were sitting there , and the first doodle bug hit the building next door and the entire ceiling started to come down . |
| 15 | Holmes and I were sitting on either side of a bright fire in our sitting room in Baker Street . |
| 16 | If I were wearing a next-to-nothing nightie and he was sitting on my bed , I 'd be having serious trouble breathing too ! |
| 17 | On the table so whatever you 're sharing out goes on top there 's the table put some little legs on okay there 's the table whatever you 're sharing out goes on top and we 're sitting here with our knees under the table okay so the people are underneath the table . |
| 18 | One night my mother , my father and I were sitting in the dining room . |
| 19 | Er , he , there was a pic there was a picture of him on the report in the paper and he was sitting in his convertible Morris Minor . |
| 20 | Somehow or the other , he was not sure how , she had dished him out a plate of stew and he was sitting eating it . |
| 21 | It 's an unmentionably early hour of the morning and we 're sitting in his Soho office , feasting on take-away toast and cappuccino . |
| 22 | I am back in the little room at the top of the spiral staircase on Wednesday morning and I am sitting on the Squeez-Ee box , with the minute in front of me , going through the remaining contents of the Quaker Oats archive , page by dusty page . |
| 23 | It was half-past — two in the morning and I was sitting in the front passenger seat in dad 's Cortina while my sister Jean , who was driving , sent it hurtling down the road towards Carlisle . |
| 24 | offered to massage me , but as all the pain was at the bottom of my tummy and I was sitting up , this was a little on the difficult side ! |
| 25 | and it goes through their , for the rest of their twenties , the rest of their thirties and most of their forties and then suddenly bang maybe something ghastly seems to be happening which they are absolutely unaware of , you know , they do n't know why they are crying or , or er unable to cope with whatever they ca n't cope with and that 's it , that 's them off and they start worrying about er osteoporosis and you know an enormous number of , of now medically defined problems of the menopause , and they may start going on to all sorts of things like hormone replacement therapy or even primrose oil or whatever the hell and they 're sitting there at an age when they are fairly loaded up with experience and maturity and all the rest of it and they do n't know what they are doing . |
| 26 | A form arrived with the instruction ‘ State exactly how loss occurred ’ , and I wrote ‘ Lord Haig 's dog Wasp and I were sitting together on a sofa when I discovered he was eating my sweater ’ with the gravest doubts that I would be believed . |
| 27 | Hospital tea , hospital phones , hospital Kit-Kat dispensers , corridors , lifts , bedpans , other patients ' progress , other patients ' parents , and suddenly , one day , you turn a corner and he 's sitting up . |
| 28 | My Dad — I could n't have believed it ! — we went down last weekend and he was sitting there , polishing the buttons on his old uniform and calling me a traitor ! ’ |
| 29 | When they went into dinner and she was sitting beside Peter Suvarov , Julia took pains to draw him out and discovered him to be quite as attractive a character as his wife . |
| 30 | And I always think back to the er the time I think Edmund and I were sitting in the back garden here and deciding that we 'd go off and join the paratroopers |