Example sentences of "[noun sg] sitting [adv] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had a day off and when I came back there was a big trophy sitting there in the shop . |
| 2 | The eyes glanced in the direction of Nadirpur sitting demurely at the bar . |
| 3 | A modern parent sitting there with a polo neck jumper on |
| 4 | He also recalls coming across the body of a Czech climber sitting upright in the snow . |
| 5 | It is hard sometimes to look at an old person sitting passively in a chair and imagine them running around , bringing up babies , managing an office , driving a lorry , getting into trouble with the law , being a pillar of the local community , fighting a war . |
| 6 | ‘ Once you 've got that basic drawing of a person sitting sideways on a chair , if you draw straight lines around him you 've more or less got a pyramid shape . |
| 7 | Sheridan Lorrimore , saying loudly that Angelica had been a bitch , made a lunging grab at the pistol sitting prominently in a holster on the Mountie 's hip . |
| 8 | These were usually made by the miner at home and one can just imagine a man sitting comfortably at the kitchen table , with a bag of gunpowder which he had ground down , pile of straws , a tiny paper funnel , and puffing away on his pipe ! |
| 9 | But while there 's a man sitting respectably in a car no-one 's gon na break into the other cars . |
| 10 | On the table he kept a photograph , ringed with the imprint of coffee cups , of a man sitting sideways on a motor bike . |
| 11 | Oh , we 're sure they were but er this was the thing with a private collier company where you had er a sort of , not quite chairman , of the colliery sitting there at the top o in the office , watching everybody come and go . |
| 12 | To the extent that freedom of expression figured at all , it was no more than as an implicit principle sitting silently in the gaps between the words . |
| 13 | But there was still a large doubt sitting hugely at the back of his mind . |
| 14 | With the plinth raised , and the patient sitting forwards on the side of it , he may practise similar controlled movements for the pelvis , or the physiotherapist might mobilize the patient 's shoulder girdle to reduce any spasticity . |
| 15 | Edward Fox 's St John Quartermaine is a memorable portrait of a nice-but-dim English teacher , whiling away great swathes of bachelor leisure time sitting absently in the staffroom . |
| 16 | The long ridge to their left looked particularly bleak and lifeless , the heavy clay sitting solidly in the ridges where the plough had left it months before , no trace of last year 's crop , nothing to indicate that this was good cereal country . |