Example sentences of "she [be] sit [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | NOT only does the woman in the new Spennymoor town centre sculpture look like she 's sitting on the toilet , and the greyhound look like a ferret or a sausage , someone said but when they went to erect the blessed thing last week it did n't fit the space available . |
| 2 | By now , she 's sitting on the floor , thoroughly chatty . |
| 3 | ‘ She is sitting in the tree ’ , for a picture of a girl ) or a lexical distractor ( ‘ He is sitting in the tree ’ vs . |
| 4 | When , a little later on , as she was sitting beside the now sleeping child , she heard Liza come into the house , Harriet did not go downstairs but waited until her daughter stood in the doorway of the bedroom , wild-eyed and trembling . |
| 5 | She was sitting beside the Raeburn , knitting . |
| 6 | She was sitting at the table with her chocolate cooling in the mug between her hands . |
| 7 | She was sitting at the mirror in her room , having excused herself from her cousins ' chatter minutes before . |
| 8 | When he entered , she was sitting at the big table . |
| 9 | She was sitting at the table , her fingers clasped beneath her chin . |
| 10 | And er very straight-faced in fact , and she was sitting at the back of the room , and I , I 'd just said to everybody , I said nobody here 's got a life purchased annuity , have they ? |
| 11 | She was sitting at the table with her back to me as I approached , concentrating on something in her hand . |
| 12 | She was sitting on the floor , surrounded by dogs and cats — when Christopher came in , and lay on the sofa , without a word — as he always did — and listened to the music with her . |
| 13 | She was sitting on the bed beside him , clutching his shoulders and looking almost frightened . |
| 14 | Unaware of his presence , she was sitting on the soft springy turf , leaning back against the ancient wall of the summer-house and gazing dreamily across the blue haze of the estuary . |
| 15 | The memories are probably combined due to the fact that she watched the SS Great Britain being towed into harbour while she was sitting on the loo . |
| 16 | She was sitting on the steps of the summerhouse . |
| 17 | She was sitting on the opposite side of the grate and Louise Carter thought fleetingly how proud Nora had always been of her daughter even when they had been dramatically at loggerheads and how pleased she would be if she could see her now , in her elegant black dress and silver jewellery . |
| 18 | She was sitting on the top deck and was cut and bruised by branches . |
| 19 | All birds are very temperamental and finicky with their food at the best of times , so I started by slipping titbits of chick under her feet while she was sitting on the glove . |
| 20 | Dressed , except for one stocking , she was sitting on the edge of the bed . |
| 21 | She was sitting on the bed cuddling Carla when her mother came in and told her to go to the shops and get some bits and pieces . |
| 22 | Alice was very nearly asleep when , suddenly , she was sitting on the ground . |
| 23 | But one day when she was sitting on the branch , it broke , and she fell . |
| 24 | She was sitting on the bed with her album — that sparsely-peopled record of whatever it was that she 'd left behind and she was n't leafing through it but hugging it close , as if it was a physical source of comfort to her when times were at their lowest . |
| 25 | She was sitting on the side of her bed , trembling with worry for him , undecided whether or not it would be safe to discard her bath towel and go to his help , when she heard a footstep on the stairs and bundled back into bed , anxious to conceal the unattractive evidence of her nasty little experience . |
| 26 | She licked her lips nervously , and realised that she was sitting on the edge of the sofa , staring at him as though her life depended on it . |
| 27 | She was sitting on the sill of the summerhouse and when the phone rang , she was ready to answer it . |
| 28 | She was sitting on the veranda , her ears still straining for a sound of the departing plane . |
| 29 | She was sitting on the sofa , surrounded by old copies of the New Yorker . |
| 30 | She was sitting on the sofa holding a baby , with her little daughter beside her . |