Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [noun] sit on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The junior recruits sit on the edge of the parade ground to witness the parade and to learn what they must achieve after a further four weeks ' training . |
| 2 | When the hon. Gentleman sat on the Standing Committee on the Bill he did not vote on any single occasion against the precise measures to which he now refers . |
| 3 | I like that one that 's in Beeston of the old man sitting on the bench there . |
| 4 | The church seen in the previous picture sits on the hillside as the York-Bournemouth express approaches Tibshelf up distant hauled by class 37 No . |
| 5 | Janine , stunned , had gone to the little girl sitting on the crate . |
| 6 | I remember the man with no legs , begging from his wheelchair and the younger man sitting on the pavement with his sad looking dog and a cardboard sign saying ‘ Hungry and Homeless ’ . |
| 7 | Her song was cut short when she saw the filthy knapsack sitting on the new , pink broadloom and making a smudge against the blush pink wall . |
| 8 | My eyes are on the black girl sitting on the floor , slumped against the wall , her eyes closed . |
| 9 | It 's not only in the dialogue that Harper Lee expresses the tension between the blacks and whites , but all through the book in her description of where people live , where they work , the churches they go to and her detailed description of the court room and how the black community sit on the balcony above , away from the whites , she gives us a vivid idea of the way life was in the 1930 's and sets the scene well . |
| 10 | The mousy man sat on the suitcase panting dismally . |
| 11 | Yet Mrs Molina becomes the first Latino to sit on the county 's governing board since 1872 — and the first woman ever . |
| 12 | In parliament the position seemed worse now that the Unionist leaders sat on the government front bench while their followers continued to sit as the opposition . |
| 13 | Like Jubert , and in contrast to Campana , Captain Augustin Cochin of the 146th Regiment sat on the Mort Homme — from April 9th to April 14th — without once seeing a German infantryman ; a not uncommon experience at Verdun . |
| 14 | He let the words sink into the shocked man sitting on the edge of his bed in Washington . |
| 15 | Did the Secretary of State read in the memoirs of Dr. Garrett FitzGerald that during the negotiations on the Anglo-Irish Agreement the Government had been prepared to allow judges from the courts in the Irish Republic to sit on the Bench in Northern Ireland as part of what are described as mixed courts , but that that was stopped because of the resistance of then then Lord Chief Justice , Lord Lowry ? |
| 16 | He is on the other side sitting on the end of the log . ’ |
| 17 | He sat in an old deck chair and the two girls sat on the ground , each leaning against one of his legs . |
| 18 | The two girls sat on the wall of Old Battersea churchyard to eat their sandwiches . |
| 19 | For five minutes after the medication , the two women sat on the bed and talked . |
| 20 | The two men sat on the bunk shelf very still , and their saucer eyes never left Holly 's face . |
| 21 | The two men sat on the high wall of the dyke as the dawn came , looking out across the flat expanse of blackened fields , watching the figures move almost somnolently in the darkness below . |
| 22 | After what seemed an eternity he moved on , casting a cursory glance across at the two men sitting on the steps outside the church . |
| 23 | Then the animals came closer with their warm , milky breaths that smelled sweetly of hay and the summer , and their mild comforting gaze that was not human , and the dog lay with his heavy head on the tailor 's foot , and the brindled cat sat on the arm of his chair . |
| 24 | The resulting larvae sit on the sand or climb up any grass present and wait for a mammal to pass by . |
| 25 | A few people sat on the floor ( no chairs in the drama studio ) and jumped straight to their feet again as an outbreak of jeering laughter told them that they 'd got it wrong . |
| 26 | There was no 10-minute conversation sitting on the Queen 's bed . |
| 27 | He saw a tiny woman sitting on the settee , dressed all in black . |
| 28 | That morning each household found a fine breakfast sitting on the windowsill . |
| 29 | I pictured this Somebody as a kindly woman sitting on the other side of a roaring log fire knitting a thick brown woollen sweater and listening to me with rapt attention . |
| 30 | A lone motor-cruiser rumbled upstream , tidily cluttered , steered by an elderly man with a black labrador sitting on the cockpit seat behind him . |