Example sentences of "sit on a [noun] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Richards was allowed to sit on a chair by the window , her thin body almost recovered from the heart attack . |
| 2 | There was a minstrel sitting on a stool by the yurt wall . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | When the coffee is served , he pops a Dire Straits CD — from a loose pile that includes the Platters , Ray Charles and Led Zeppelin — into a CD ghetto blaster sitting on a shelf by the kitchen table . |
| 5 | He sat on a stool by the breakfast bar while she made coffee . |
| 6 | Creed sat on a chair by the window , gloved hands in his lap , one wrist resting on the other . |
| 7 | Patrick sat on a chair by the fire and Kate turned to him . |
| 8 | Finn sat on a chair by her bed . |
| 9 | The water had to be drawn up out of one of a battery of long-necked cisterns behind the cottage , and when we had done that and fed the plants we sat on a seat by the Priapus arbour , with the unusual smell , in summer Greece , of verdant wet earth all around us . |