Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] he sit [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | When arrangements were made in the summer of 1278 to establish two permanent circuits of the general eyre he was one of the justices appointed to the ‘ northern ’ circuit and he sat as a junior justice in every eyre of that circuit down to 1288 . |
| 3 | It was that particular phone he answered on that late November evening as he sat by the fire working on some files . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | In a separate incident , a pensioner was knifed in the head as he sat on a street bench . |
| 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 | She shrank away in undisguised terror as he sat on the edge of the bed , reaching for her hand . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Compare the statement that he sat in a seat iii the circle . |
| 12 | Finally they found a canvas and Modi seated Indenbaum at one end of the long narrow studio while he sat at the other . |
| 13 | It was in a cinema on 86th Street where he sat in the balcony , wearing an old sports jacket and open-necked shirt . |
| 14 | 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 . |