Example sentences of "sit on [art] " in BNC.

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1 They told what an excellent trip it had been and how they had sat on a platform in the sunshine halfway across to eat their sandwiches with not another boat in sight .
2 He pulls a face as if he 's just sat on a chicken , as Peter Cook has just asked him what 's the most boring job he 's ever had .
3 Mr and Mrs Harper had sat in their respective armchairs , Marge had sat on a red leather pouffe and she , Steve and Cliff had occupied the two-seater settee of the three-piece suite .
4 The next morning , Buzz sat on a pale blue chair before the window in Elinor 's bedroom .
5 Her bottom stung as if she 'd sat on a nest of hornets , but she wanted to show them she 'd survived .
6 ‘ You 've sat on a bilberry , ’ said Betty with satisfaction .
7 The hon. Gentleman is so distinguished that it may be some time since he has sat on a Standing Committee .
8 Quigley leaped into the air like a monkey that has sat on a bunsen burner and gave a sort of primal grunt .
9 Pretty much the same at the moment because I 'm I 'm sat on a couple of bills for Salford Council who I 'm sure can afford it for the moment .
10 Apart from that they could 've sat on a wall and done exactly the same thing , she was in the street .
11 But as anyone who has sat on an equal opportunities working party will tell you , it is one thing to formulate policies and quite another to implement them .
12 For the last few years I have sat on the sidelines watching bolt-protected climbing mushrooming throughout the USA , Europe and , not least , Britain : in quarries , but also , let's be completely truthful , on natural crags .
13 She 'd sat on the stubby grass , cut short as the back of a soldier 's head .
14 ‘ Once she was a hit , we could have sat on the first contract and made more money from her .
15 Attlee and Ernest Bevin , the Foreign Secretary , had sat on the key Coalition Cabinet committees on post-war reconstruction at home and overseas .
16 I have sat on the opposite bank of a river to where a match was being fished and seen barbel breaking line time after time , and the reaction has always been the same : the tying on of a hook of the same size to the same line that barbel had already treated with the contempt it deserved .
17 Myles had sat on the edge of the chair with his hands clasped between his knees , listening to the legal measured tones , telling himself , I 'm not going to get it , I 'm not going to get it .
18 ‘ Why could n't he have sat on the trolley like he always does ? ’ her husband said .
19 Some ideas are as follows : the first team to have everyone sat on the floor , first team to have everyone standing on one leg .
20 Mrs Reveley said : ‘ Nobody else has ever sat on the horse over jumps .
21 I 've sat on the beach
22 He had thought of Harry all the way out of Rome to Leonardo da Vinci , all the time that he had stood in the check-in line , all the time he had sat on the Alitalia , all the time he had stood at Customs and Immigration at Athens International , all the time in the taxi out to the Kifisia suburb .
23 In the past he has sat on the central committee and was chairman of the London branch .
24 Had she done so she would not have said a word , would not have looked a word , would simply have sat on the bed and talked to Tina for ten minutes instead of the two of them sitting opposite each other in armchairs .
25 There may be a booklet on the subject , a special expert in the technical department who has sat on the relevant government fact-finding commission or a market research survey giving the latest market trends , any of which would help the journalists far more than the standard handouts .
26 No shrewder opportunist had sat on the English throne , but his opportunism was harnessed to some guiding principles .
27 While the Doctor stalked about the room , or fiddled with the door , or argued with the guards , the three others had sat on the floor and exchanged their stories .
28 At last a pick-up truck came bumping up the track , containing Giovanna 's fat and apparently unsatisfactory husband and a detachment of villagers , including the old men , Molly was sure , who had sat on the wall by the petrol pumps mocking her .
29 We are sat on the floor
30 Sometimes , when she had been to a romantic film , or had been kissed good-night by Pogo , she had sat on the edge of her bed , staring at that dark , handsome , boy 's face and tried to conjure up the memory of his living presence .
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