Example sentences of "[noun] sitting [adv] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All cases are formally approved by all senior tutors sitting collectively as the MAC , thus ensuring fairness and consistency of practice . |
| 2 | I had a day off and when I came back there was a big trophy sitting there in the shop . |
| 3 | The eyes glanced in the direction of Nadirpur sitting demurely at the bar . |
| 4 | Sara and Matthew ate theirs companionably with the two teachers and the bus drivers sitting outside in the sunshine , sharing Lizzie 's meat pies and coffee and chocolate cakes . |
| 5 | A modern parent sitting there with a polo neck jumper on |
| 6 | He also recalls coming across the body of a Czech climber sitting upright in the snow . |
| 7 | It is hard sometimes to look at an old person sitting passively in a chair and imagine them running around , bringing up babies , managing an office , driving a lorry , getting into trouble with the law , being a pillar of the local community , fighting a war . |
| 8 | ‘ Once you 've got that basic drawing of a person sitting sideways on a chair , if you draw straight lines around him you 've more or less got a pyramid shape . |
| 9 | Sheridan Lorrimore , saying loudly that Angelica had been a bitch , made a lunging grab at the pistol sitting prominently in a holster on the Mountie 's hip . |
| 10 | When I got up to go to bed , I saw Emily sitting quietly by the fire . |
| 11 | We came across a small party of people sitting innocently on a rock enjoying the sunshine . |
| 12 | These were usually made by the miner at home and one can just imagine a man sitting comfortably at the kitchen table , with a bag of gunpowder which he had ground down , pile of straws , a tiny paper funnel , and puffing away on his pipe ! |
| 13 | But while there 's a man sitting respectably in a car no-one 's gon na break into the other cars . |
| 14 | On the table he kept a photograph , ringed with the imprint of coffee cups , of a man sitting sideways on a motor bike . |
| 15 | Twenty minutes sitting quietly in the horsebox beforehand gives you this opportunity . |
| 16 | Oh , we 're sure they were but er this was the thing with a private collier company where you had er a sort of , not quite chairman , of the colliery sitting there at the top o in the office , watching everybody come and go . |
| 17 | Sitting safely ARE your children sitting comfortably in the car ? |
| 18 | She shook her head to dispel the shadows and looked at the four children sitting listlessly on the couch . |
| 19 | In the middle of this , Boy switched to a documentary made by a group of prostitutes which showed married men sitting nervously on the edges of beds in hotel rooms , sitting on neatly flowered bedspreads and having difficulty ( they were embarrassed by the female camera crew ) saying exactly what it was that they wanted to do for their thirty pounds . |
| 20 | To the extent that freedom of expression figured at all , it was no more than as an implicit principle sitting silently in the gaps between the words . |
| 21 | He saw the two women sitting there as the Orion glided past and disappeared up a side street . |
| 22 | It is still possible to open a door and find a dozen women sitting quietly round a bench sewing small squares of silk , with all the cloistered intensity of medieval seamstresses . |
| 23 | But there was still a large doubt sitting hugely at the back of his mind . |
| 24 | With the plinth raised , and the patient sitting forwards on the side of it , he may practise similar controlled movements for the pelvis , or the physiotherapist might mobilize the patient 's shoulder girdle to reduce any spasticity . |
| 25 | Edward Fox 's St John Quartermaine is a memorable portrait of a nice-but-dim English teacher , whiling away great swathes of bachelor leisure time sitting absently in the staffroom . |
| 26 | I caught Michael sitting unashamedly on the bench again . |
| 27 | Ari felt sorry for Cabochon , who spent most evenings sitting apart from the others , chewing his fingernails . |
| 28 | If we start off by considering the accounting application as an object developed in C sitting there in the middle of the screen , we need the ability to talk to the users through a graphical user interface . |
| 29 | The long ridge to their left looked particularly bleak and lifeless , the heavy clay sitting solidly in the ridges where the plough had left it months before , no trace of last year 's crop , nothing to indicate that this was good cereal country . |