Example sentences of "sit on [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I ca n't remember what it was on , but I just remember we were sat on something . |
| 2 | It is because those Governments have been arguing for coal utilisation while our Government have sat on their hands wanting to take a swipe at miners and their communities . |
| 3 | That the little girl who had sat on her granny 's knee and smiled and laughed , would grow up to give herself to anyone and everyone who asked her ? |
| 4 | Oliver wanted to go there because it had a sheltered terrace where they could sit outside , but it was too full of memories : it was the place where Rain had sat on her own while Sabine Jourdain was fighting for her life on board the Jonquil , where Tim had left behind his wallet , where Rain had first seen the pedlar . |
| 5 | Oh well she must be sat on her potty ! |
| 6 | He moved cos he was sat on them . |
| 7 | The door of the grocer 's shop was flung open with a ‘ crash ’ and a small rotund figure , angry as a bee that has sat on its own sting , buzzed past the rubber merchant and accosted the sedan-chair operator . |
| 8 | And my Ma … my Ma was sat on its lap all tiny like a shrivelled-up doll . |
| 9 | Derby was a weak man whose subservience could usually be taken for granted ( in Haig 's words he was like " the feather pillow [ who ] bears the marks of the last person who has sat on him " ) , but he was very conscious of his position in the party . |
| 10 | Once he sent me a paperweight , the very paperweight which had sat on his desk . |
| 11 | Her colleague 's fairy costume had been badly injured by an admirer who had sat on it . |
| 12 | If you get sat on it is because you allow yourself to be sat on . |
| 13 | Somebody must have sat on it , or pulled it or |
| 14 | Is he sat on it ? |
| 15 | Er U P S er called us one time on some hand grenades hulls er the kind that you would use sat on your desk for a paperweight . |
| 16 | Well you 've sat on your arse all day as well |
| 17 | Think it 's used to you in that I do n't know what , I do n't tell Ron , well he knows how I felt cos I said course I 'm , god he said , is that a performance , he said I have n't sat on your knee for ages , I said no I just feel like it , before we went out and er , I said well I do n't think there 's anything the matter do you , I said with him back there saying make sure Mr Hudson has the notes , and he said no , he said , he said he would n't leave it seven months he said |
| 18 | when you 're sat on your own for hours and hours and hours |
| 19 | Have you sat on your dummy ? |
| 20 | I 'd sat on my palliasse writing notes , watching Selma plait her hair , trying to decide when to get up and walk down the inlet far enough to be out of sight in order to go to the loo . |
| 21 | She 'd sat on my lap in a friendly way , true , but that was just so I could get a better fix on her rug . |
| 22 | If you do n't get rid of acid you know what it does to even metal , if it sits on metal it eats through it , so you imagine what it does to your bones when it sits on them . |
| 23 | KIER SITS ON HER BEDSPREAD , and fiddles with the lighting . |
| 24 | A bird sits on her eggs . |
| 25 | She sits on her own bed and watches him . ) |
| 26 | CLAIRE , as pale as the winter daybreak she will never see again , sits on her bed wheezing through the oxygen mask she has worn for the past three months . |
| 27 | So if the female does n't want it and this one clearly does n't , she just sits down and if she sits on her pseudo-penis , there 's no way the male is ever gon na get into her , but in fact this is true er in , in general terms of er if you think about it a , a female quadrupedal mammal I mean it looks like male domination , the male mounts and it looks as if she has to submit but she does n't . |
| 28 | Sits on her cushion . |
| 29 | One such funerary coronet still sits on its tasselled cushion atop the coffin of the Earl of Clare in the 1837 catacombs at Kensal Green , whilst a very fine , though late , specimen of 1915 sits on the top of the Dowbiggen & Holland coffin of Rosa , Countess Poulett , at Hinton St George . |
| 30 | At Brimpsfield , a very unusual church sits on its own away to the east of the present village . |