Example sentences of "[conj] he sit [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The right hon. and learned Gentleman sits in court and passes sentence himself , so he has seen the issue both from these Benches and from the Bench he adorns when he sits as a recorder . |
| 32 | There can have been few more painful moments in Melvyn Bragg 's professional life than when he sat in the audience of a public performance where Barry Humphries , in the guise of Edna Everage , asked if anyone had read any of Bragg 's novels and nobody raised their hand . |
| 33 | Try explaining it to Ashley as he sits in the back of the minibus watching the streets of Salzburg slip by for the last time as — filming finished — we begin the journey back home . |
| 34 | Very loudly ( ad for some time before ) , a tailor had been singing as he sat at a window in a comer of the yard . |
| 35 | The prince was visibly moved by the bravery of Bronwen Vickers , 33 , a mother of two , from Knutsford , Cheshire , as he sat at the foot of her bed at Warrington General Hospital . |
| 36 | He was visibly moved by the bravery of Bronwen Vickers , 33 , a mother of two from Knutsford , Cheshire , as he sat at the foot of her bed at Warrington General Hospital . |
| 37 | The mail arrived early and he opened his letters as he sat at the breakfast table . |
| 38 | The raw , rough feeling in his voice was so obvious that Julia forgot all her determined restraint of the previous evening and put her arms around him as he sat at the table , laying her head on his . |
| 39 | ‘ What 's it all mean ? ’ asked Lewis , as he sat at the table , with a pint of Brakspear for Morse and a half of the same for himself . |
| 40 | In a separate incident , a pensioner was knifed in the head as he sat on a street bench . |
| 41 | The reviews were not entirely dismissive , but Hardy remembered only the harsh comments in the Spectator , read ‘ as he sat on a stile leading to the eweleaze he had to cross on his way home to Bockhampton . |
| 42 | Rubberneck , as he sat on the bed , his head way down , under it , saw the suitcase . |
| 43 | She lay awake until he came up but he passed their door without stopping and she heard his door close and the jangle of springs through the wall as he sat on the bed to take his boots off . |
| 44 | Feeling as if she had been dismissed , Lindsey watched as he sat on the bed and reached for his stethoscope . |
| 45 | She watched and listened as he sat on the bed , held the frightened woman 's hand and made her believe it too . |
| 46 | Two or three boys stood round him as he sat on the floor nursing the side of his head where a lump was rising under his probing fingers . |
| 47 | She shrank away in undisguised terror as he sat on the edge of the bed , reaching for her hand . |
| 48 | As he sat on the mud floor of his cell , disdaining the bed , he said that he would do exactly the same again . |
| 49 | ‘ Corp ’ will do , ’ Charlie said with a grin , as he sat on the end of the bed sewing a single stripe on to a sleeve of his uniform . |
| 50 | ‘ This is reward for many years of hard work , for all the perseverance and the lonely nights , ’ he said as he sat on the terrace of the clubhouse revelling in the atmosphere and attention of a successful first round . |
| 51 | ‘ Oh , love , ’ he whispered , as he sat on the side of the bed . |
| 52 | At Belfast Crown Court , Corry admitted murdering Mr Magee as he sat with a pint , beside his pet dog , also killed , in the beer keg bomb blast . |
| 53 | Uncle Ted had done absolutely nothing since the day Dad exorcized him as he sat with a record-player in his lap . |
| 54 | ‘ I do n't know , ’ he said as he sat to the table . |
| 55 | But one day , as he sat by a mountain stream , he actually looked at a flower , and for the first time in ten years he realized how beautiful something living could be . |
| 56 | As he sat by the fire softening potatoes between his gums , he felt pleased with himself . |
| 57 | It was that particular phone he answered on that late November evening as he sat by the fire working on some files . |
| 58 | THE outlawed Ulster Freedom Fighters last night claimed responsibility for the murder of a Catholic man as he sat in a van on the outskirts of north Belfast . |
| 59 | Peter was accused three times , as he sat in the courtyard of the high priest 's house , of being one of Jesus ' men and three times he denied it . |
| 60 | He went silent and dark and withdrew into himself , the two thumbs rotating about one another as he sat in the car chair by the fire . |