Example sentences of "[conj] he was sit [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What Ken did not tell was that he was sitting on a chamber pot when Sir Noel walked into the dressing room . |
| 2 | It was not until the last hymn that Ianthe happened to turn her head slightly and not so much see him as become conscious that he was sitting behind her and presumably had been throughout the service . |
| 3 | There was this veranda on the back of the caravan which Yul Brynner had got from somewhere , and he was sitting on this veranda in his black shirt , black boots and black trousers and smoking a big cigar . |
| 4 | If I were wearing a next-to-nothing nightie and he was sitting on my bed , I 'd be having serious trouble breathing too ! |
| 5 | It shows that something stupid and it just went , spine , and he was sitting on the pavement out there for three or four minutes in agony , |
| 6 | Then out for a newspaper and some rolls , and he was sitting in front of the gas fire with a cup of coffee . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He 'd sent a photograph in and he was sitting in the garden and right and he was on a garden chair and he had his nice hair washed and shiny . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | This was Mr Ross 's office and he was sitting behind a desk . |
| 12 | 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 ? |
| 13 | I lifted Harry until he was sitting on the walkway and then , still gripping him tightly , wriggled up beside him so that we were both sitting there with our heads wholly above water , which may not sound a great advance but which was probably the difference between life and death . |
| 14 | Walking to the far end of the cells passage , he lowered himself to the floor until he was sitting with his back to the wall facing the door with its broken lock hanging askew . |
| 15 | The carer then holds him in the same way as if he was sitting on the side of the bed , with his head resting on her shoulder , and lifts him up and round onto the second chair . |
| 16 | I 'd think twice about levelling those jarges at Jake Burns if he was sitting in the same room as me but seeing as he 's on a car phone whizzing up London 's Tottenham Court Road , what the heck ! |
| 17 | Wycliffe , in the big black leather armchair by the empty grate , wondered if he was sitting in the old man 's chair . |
| 18 | Cos he was sitting outside Sally 's doing his book work |
| 19 | He moved cos he was sat on them . |
| 20 | I saw him this morning but he was sitting on another table . |
| 21 | But he was sitting underneath her . |
| 22 | But he was sitting in the car was he and and she came and back into him ? |
| 23 | That was n't difficult , because he was sitting in the middle of the largest and noisiest group in the room — also they were the only ones speaking English . |
| 24 | ‘ We ca n't work out how he could have killed his wife while he was sitting at the opposite end of the table , ’ said Constable Bewman näively . |
| 25 | It was as if the hawk could hear the rabbit running along the tunnels inside the hedge , while he was sitting on a post on top of the hedge . |
| 26 | Swear when he was sat at the top of the stairs shivering he looked so thin . |
| 27 | There were only a few guests — among them Martin Browne and his wife , Rupert Hart-Davis and Jacob Epstein ( whom Eliot had come to like and admire when he was sitting to him ) . |
| 28 | One day he saw them both through the window of a hotel bar when he was sitting on a bus in Shaftesbury Avenue . |
| 29 | There , you knew you had a night visitor when he was sitting beside you . |
| 30 | He died 5 January 1737 , ‘ suddenly , of a fit of apoplexy , as he was sitting in his chair at his house in Bartlett 's Buildings , Holborn ’ , and was succeeded first by his son Erasmus [ q.v. ] , the author of several treatises on economics , and then by a younger son , John , ‘ a notorious Jacobite ’ . |