Example sentences of "[be] sitting [adv] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and it goes through their , for the rest of their twenties , the rest of their thirties and most of their forties and then suddenly bang maybe something ghastly seems to be happening which they are absolutely unaware of , you know , they do n't know why they are crying or , or er unable to cope with whatever they ca n't cope with and that 's it , that 's them off and they start worrying about er osteoporosis and you know an enormous number of , of now medically defined problems of the menopause , and they may start going on to all sorts of things like hormone replacement therapy or even primrose oil or whatever the hell and they 're sitting there at an age when they are fairly loaded up with experience and maturity and all the rest of it and they do n't know what they are doing . |
| 2 | All right , but you 're sitting there on the nursery provision for under five 's working party , you chaired that committee meeting yesterday . |
| 3 | My mam 'd er well not m my mother all the mams , would be sitting there with the kids with their feet in the water to get used to it even when they were a few weeks old . |
| 4 | Everybody would be sitting there round the table having their Sunday dinner while down below them the kid would think he had the only important world to himself . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'd be on the beach sunbathing and he 'd be sitting there in a suit , collar and tie and black shoes . |
| 6 | It did n't seem natural to be sitting there in the dark . |
| 7 | ‘ They would be sitting together on the sofa feeling romantic and giving each other cuddles . |
| 8 | I 'm sitting here at the computer even now , with images flashing into my mind of all the spots I want to go to , but have n't had the opportunity yet . |
| 9 | The jury is out on this and I am sitting firmly on the fence . |
| 10 | I am sitting now in an arbour of rust-coloured bougainvillaea drinking lukewarm , weak coffee , brought to me in a stainless steel pot by a waiter in a starched white uniform , thinking in an aimless way about this puzzle , when I see the waiter returning . |
| 11 | What about the last we did yesterday actually designers and training , it 's quite a , it 's quite a struggle that had a long day , been sitting here for a couple of hours I du n no it seems longer and there you are and you 're actually struggling |
| 12 | ‘ You mean to say we have been sitting here for an hour with a motorbike and sidecar parked outside ? ’ |
| 13 | I must have been sitting here on the edge of his bed , first singing and stroking , then just stroking , for half an hour or so . |
| 14 | They had been sitting together at the top of their organisations throughout the years of cut-backs . |
| 15 | You 've been sitting there for an hour watching the fire almost go out . |
| 16 | Or some of the time I 've been sitting there in the bed feeding the baby , you know |
| 17 | The two other boys were sitting neatly on a sofa in the distance but they failed to acknowledge them . |
| 18 | They were sitting again on the terrace at the Continental . |
| 19 | They were sitting outside on the verandah . |
| 20 | Bruce was in the hammock and Mr and Mrs van Meer were sitting side-by-side on the steps . |
| 21 | Everyone else was out at work , and the two of them were sitting inside in the semi-darkness drinking raksi . |
| 22 | Last night he and I were sitting silently in the kitchen at about midnight , when Heathcliff came home . |
| 23 | A form arrived with the instruction ‘ State exactly how loss occurred ’ , and I wrote ‘ Lord Haig 's dog Wasp and I were sitting together on a sofa when I discovered he was eating my sweater ’ with the gravest doubts that I would be believed . |
| 24 | His eyes swung round the room , but his mother and sister were sitting together on the sofa , playing with the baby , while his father , cup and saucer in hand , stood by the window with his uncles and the fierce-looking old man who was his grandfather . |
| 25 | Harold and Felicity were sitting together on the sofa , heads close . |
| 26 | They were sitting together on the grass of Hartshorn Park , some distance away from a gravel path where tourists wandered up and down , pointing towards the follies and monuments around them . |
| 27 | Guillaume had already bought some drawings of Modigliani 's , but one afternoon at the Rotonde Max Jacob and Modi were sitting together on the terrace with Modi sketching as usual on the Rotonde 's thin paper napkins when Paul Guillaume sat down at their table and asked Modigliani whether he ever painted . |
| 28 | One evening when Zbo and Modi were sitting together in a café , Modigliani finished a sketch he had made and then tore the page out of his blue sketchbook . |
| 29 | A bunch of the new hands were sitting together in the yard commiserating when Jackie Tiptoe limped up . |
| 30 | They were sitting together in the garden , their backs to the gate through which Kelly appeared . |