Example sentences of "[pron] sitting [adv] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Vincent liked to have him sitting drowsily on the floor of his studio on a few sacks while he worked . |
| 2 | Entering it he could imagine her sitting there in the summer days and evenings , working on the papers which she occasionally contributed to ornithological journals and looking up from time to time to gaze out over the headland to the sea and the far horizon , could see again that carved , weather-browned Aztec face with its hooded eyes under the grey-black hair , drawn back into a bun , could hear again a voice which , for him , had been one of the most beautiful female voices he had ever heard . |
| 3 | He had a picture of her sitting permanently on the edge of a table at Dubal 's swinging one leg and looking out at him from the group she was with . |
| 4 | You could n't imagine anyone sitting here with a handkerchief pressed to a swollen jaw . |
| 5 | Then she said , ‘ If you were a good-looking chap who wore Armani suits and washed-silk shirts and things , and you found yourself sitting across from a girl with freckles and a ponytail — or at least , a girl who used to have freckles and a ponytail — and you realized she 'd grown up to be gorgeous , would you go for her ? ’ |
| 6 | there was rather a large congregation , and I was late , I found myself sitting more to the front than usual , in fact opposite the lectern . |
| 7 | ‘ It sounds so silly when I think about it now , ’ says a disappointed daughter in Pitkeathley 's book , ‘ but I used to have this image of us sitting together in the afternoons . |