Example sentences of "[noun] who sat [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " The gentlemen who sat on the bench were more or less connected with the shipping trade , and the law had been somewhat strained to obtain the conviction " . |
| 2 | He stood diffidently to the side of a group , or featured as a background — the pair of legs clutched by baby Louise , a blurred figure in a field beyond Helen and Edward who sat on a rug eating sandwiches . |
| 3 | Another survey , published in 1975 , covers the period 1876–1972 and , with a few omissions , analyses the 317 judges who sat in the High Court , the Court of Appeal and the House of Lords during that period . |
| 4 | Rape was not charged but there are dicta on the subject from six of the 13 judges who sat in the case . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ This is April , ’ he said , indicating a nondescript , darkish girl who sat on a corner of the sofa . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 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 | But insisted that we got into a rowing boat instead , so we did , and after failures to dissuade us , we were promptly joined by three park-keepers who sat in the boat and insisted on ‘ helping ’ us to row ! |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The rest of the place was empty except for Devlin who sat at a table against the far wall reading a small book , a glass of beer at his hand . |
| 14 | It was a disappointed Graham who sat in the clubhouse after his second defeat . |
| 15 | Backstage , in Therese 's dressing room , all was excitement and congratulations — Willi , old Anton , Alfred , the entire Hochhauser Theatre committee complete with the Easter egg — the expensive dress had found an occasion worthy of a second showing — and Hans , a smugly self-satisfied Hans who sat in the only chair sipping a glass of champagne provided by Willi . |
| 16 | He looked at Lady Horne who sat on the other side of the fireplace , an ivory and pearl rosary entwined around her fingers . |
| 17 | Kragan did n't add that he had never trusted the newspaper proprietor who sat on the council . |
| 18 | A colonnade along the west side above a raised pathway provided a sheltered dais for the chairmen of the popular committees who sat behind a table with two or three microphones . |
| 19 | The person who sat at the side of the Secretary of State was the regional officer from Leeds . |
| 20 | Foxe describes how ‘ Master Tyndale , a man of no great stature ’ , was courteously persuaded to walk ahead , whilst the tall and comely Philips behind him pointed over his head ‘ so that the officers who sat at the door might see that it was he whom they should take ; as the officers that took Master Tyndale afterwards told Poyntz , they pitied to see his simplicity when they took him . ’ |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | I am also the woman who sat at the crossroads . |
| 24 | She saw in her mind the woman who sat in the same seat day after day . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | He stood in the damp boots that leaked the snow wet to his socks , and he hated the man who sat at the desk . |
| 27 | Lehmann watched them laugh , his eyes drawn to the man who sat to the extreme right of the group . |
| 28 | This was what the bear-leader seemed to be asking of the passenger he now approached , the man who sat in the seat next to the doors . |
| 29 | I should perhaps add that I was not a member of the committee who heard these appeals in the first hearing since I became involved only when your Lordships who sat in the first hearing suggested a second hearing under my chairmanship and accordingly I have not been asked to consider this matter apart from the discussion of the extracts from Hansard which have been put before us in this appeal . |
| 30 | The interesting factor in all those arguments is that my hon. Friends who sat on the respective Committees or spoke on the Second Reading of Bills associated with privatisation said at the time that the Government were privatising monopoly , not introducing effective competition and regulation , and the matter would have to be examined again . |