Example sentences of "[conj] he sit [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example the owner of a motor vehicle can be said to use it where he sits at the side of the driver , who is not his employee and the vehicle is being used for his purpose ( Cobb v Williams [ 1973 ] RTR 1 13 ) . |
| 2 | He did a really intimate show where he sat on the edge of the stage with his ankles crossed and talked to them and sang them songs . |
| 3 | The world of the Zoo seemed to move without any noise at all and around the Cages all was still but for the visitor Creggan had attacked , who swayed back and forth where he sat on the ground , others gathered around him . |
| 4 | It was in a cinema on 86th Street where he sat in the balcony , wearing an old sports jacket and open-necked shirt . |
| 5 | He took me often to organ recitals ( Goss Custard and Thalben Ball ) and to the Proms , where he sat in the balcony over the orchestra cupping his good ear in his hand . |
| 6 | He placed it on a bale of straw and pulled up an upturned bucket as a chair before hopping on to a meal bin where he sat like a pixie on a toadstool with his arms around his knees , regarding me with keen anticipation . |
| 7 | He 's behind the bushes , or he sits in the church itself when it 's cold , and I do n't blame him because it 's been pretty cold the last , you know , few weeks . |
| 8 | Although he sat on the fence with the rest of London 's Jews during the noisy campaign of Rabbi Manasseh ben Israel [ q.v. ] of Amsterdam to secure a public readmission of the Jews to England , eventually he was forced to show his hand . |
| 9 | Andy Gray , on Sky , said that he sits on a panel to decide if a goal is an OG or not … and can then take goals off players . |
| 10 | Since the quadrupling of the defence budget in 1950–55 , the president 's main source of power has come from the fact that he sits at the head of a great ‘ national security state ’ — to adopt the phrase of Daniel Patrick Moynihan , a Democratic senator . |
| 11 | We can infer that George was in a restaurant , and that he sat at a table and looked at a menu . |
| 12 | Compare the statement that he sat in a seat iii the circle . |
| 13 | Neither speaks French or German but one has a few words of English , so he sits in the front . |
| 14 | There was cake , satisfying and fruity , and he sat on the edge of the chesterfield in Isobel 's sitting-room and ate it appreciatively between gulps of strong , sweet tea from one of her best bone china teacups . |
| 15 | He goes he goes you ca n't go to sleep , and he sat on the edge of my bed for about quarter of an hour . |
| 16 | At that time of year there were few people about and he sat at a table by himself . |
| 17 | The lights went down and he sat at the back , trying to gauge the reaction of a packed audience . |
| 18 | And he sat in the armchair on the other side of the room , in the shadows . |
| 19 | it does my house , in fact it come the other day when Kerry had to pick a battery up and I walked out the front with Kerry and he sat in the car and did n't even look at me |
| 20 | He c he got him off did n't he , and he sat in the thing . |
| 21 | ‘ I sat on my bed and he sat by the door and we talked and I tried to persuade him to use his money to educate himself and he said he would but I did n't feel convinced . ’ |
| 22 | It flashed on me that it was also the smile that Conchis sometimes wore ; as if he sat before the head and practised it . |
| 23 | Susan thought : Now I 've lost him ; but he sat behind the wheel without starting the engine . |
| 24 | Your family doctor may know one end of a thyroid gland from another-with any luck — but no especial wisdom is granted him because he sits in a surgery seeing one coughing person after another all day ; peering into ears and wombs and hearing tales of insomnia and worms . |
| 25 | The occupational therapist may supply portable handrails in the early stages after the stroke , so that the patient has some support on each side while he sits on the toilet , although these should not be used to lean on when standing up or sitting down . |
| 26 | Finally they found a canvas and Modi seated Indenbaum at one end of the long narrow studio while he sat at the other . |
| 27 | Between the noise of the bloody guns and clouds of bloody mosquitoes buzzing around my head , all I 've had for my two hours is more mosquito lumps on my face , and I 'm more tired than ever. , Taff and I chatted while he sat on the floor of the trench smoking his cigarette . |
| 28 | There would be the guy with the black box in a suitcase and the chair facing the wall that I would sit in while he sat in a chair behind me . |
| 29 | And I just saw myself washing it while he sat in the bath . |
| 30 | The bed height should allow the patient to touch the floor with his feet when he sits on the side on the bed , although his hips should be slightly above the level of his knees . |