Example sentences of "[was/were] sit on a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Baronessa was out in the garden now , a white cardigan slung over her shoulders , talking to a line of young Italians who were sitting on a wall in varying postures of exhaustion . |
| 2 | She sat up very straight on the side of the bed and continued to address him as if he were sitting on a mat in the Top Infants , wrestling with difficult , dangerous new concepts like add-ups and take-aways and the precise whereabouts of Australia . |
| 3 | Tom Cat was sitting on a wall in the sunshine . |
| 4 | He was sitting on a sofa outside the lecture-room , smoking a cigarette . |
| 5 | She was sitting on a stool beside her mother 's chair and Julia laid her hand against Anne 's cheek . |
| 6 | Zen was sitting on a stool under a bright light in a small white-curtained cubicle , thinking about Trotsky and the ice-man . |
| 7 | Isabel was sitting on a stool by the fire , dressed in a filmy shift borrowed from Joanna , a mantle over her shoulders for extra warmth , when the door opened and he was there , tall and strong , the sconce lights gleaming on his fair hair . |
| 8 | He was sitting on a pouffe to the side of the fire . |
| 9 | When he met Eileen Ryan she was sitting on a bank with a dazed look , her bicycle up-ended in a ditch . |
| 10 | On another occasion I was sitting on a bank with my feet on the headland , and Walter was coming along with his horses . |
| 11 | I was sitting on a seat in the park , enjoying the sunshine , when suddenly I felt deathly sick . |
| 12 | He was sitting on a bench near the top of the hill , overlooking the throw-yourself-off bridge and the deep deep gorge . |
| 13 | At that precise time , she was sitting on a bench in the middle of the corridor , at a carefully calculated point that should be just out of sight from the security cameras at either side . |
| 14 | One day he saw them both through the window of a hotel bar when he was sitting on a bus in Shaftesbury Avenue . |
| 15 | He was sitting on a chair beside a display of furled umbrellas ; he had his head in his hands and was being eyed dispassionately by two male assistants in dark suits . |
| 16 | They made their way to the kitchen , where Miss Vine was sitting on a chair beside the budgerigar cage . |
| 17 | He had got down from the table half-way through tea and was sitting on a chair in the doorway , looking droopy and listless . |
| 18 | I was sitting on a chair near the door , and I could just hear Greta Ross 's voice speaking on the phone . |
| 19 | She was sitting on a rug on the long narrow lawn which lay behind the house , with a pile of books and a baby . |
| 20 | It was as if the hawk could hear the rabbit running along the tunnels inside the hedge , while he was sitting on a post on top of the hedge . |
| 21 | Lydia was sitting on a stile with the sun behind her and Beuno beside her . |