Example sentences of "[conj] sit in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are several methods you can use and of course you must find the one which suits you best but , as a starting-point , here is a simple and effective one : Lie on your bed or sit in a chair with a back which is high enough to support your neck and head . |
| 2 | Why stand in a bus queue or sit in a traffic jam when you can walk almost as quickly ? |
| 3 | If there was a grievance the students would refuse to eat their evening meal , and parade and make noises , or sit in a solid wall of silence . |
| 4 | or sit in the seat of mockers . |
| 5 | Originating in Scandinavian mythology , elves are capricious sprites that dance on the grass , or sit in the leaves of trees and bask in the light of the full moon . |
| 6 | Expectations that the child should hold the parent 's hand while crossing the road , or sit in the safety seat in the car , can be met by great outbursts of temper in the confident 2-year-old who wants to be totally independent . |
| 7 | It is simply not safe to have radios on the side of the bath , or electrical heaters plugged in to the bathroom in winter , or to sit in the bath while shaving with an electric razor . |
| 8 | The Medical Research Council 's Common Cold Research Unit showed that it is not the person who gets caught in the rain or sits in a draught who is likely to develop a cold but the one who has to work in the air-conditioned , centrally-heated , artificially-lit atmosphere found in many modern office blocks . |
| 9 | You will either be lying on a couch or sitting in a comfortable chair with a back high enough to support your head . |
| 10 | She had never imagined him doing the ordinary things of life : taking a bath , shaving , going shopping , or sitting in a bar somewhere with his friends , laughing and telling jokes . |
| 11 | Cycling in the hills on your own or sitting in the NAAFI ! |
| 12 | Many guests spend the whole day here , relaxing by the pool or sitting in the shade . |
| 13 | ‘ Nor can it be any easier to decide if you prefer strolling the catwalk you abhor or sitting in the garden of the palazzo , sipping tea and talking with la Principessa . ’ |
| 14 | She should be introduced with an air of pride and affection to your friends and neighbours if she does not know them already , accompanied to all the places locally which will be of special interest to her in the future : the public library , the shopping centre , the best places to go for morning coffee , and any small parks where she might like to walk or sit in the fine weather . |
| 15 | ‘ In charge of ’ can be proved by the police officer or other witness who saw him near or sat in the vehicle for example . |
| 16 | Whether it 's the Police Band or one from a nearby mill town , there are fewer nicer ways to end a summer day in Leeds than to sit in a deckchair at sunset , listening to the haunting sound of the trumpets and trombones . |
| 17 | What could be more refreshing , for instance , than to sit in the sun sipping a glass of one of the latest fruit wines ? |
| 18 | Intensive NMR studies in collaboration with Kurt Wüthrich have led Walter Gehring ( Biozentrum , Basel ) to conclude that the DNA binding specificity of the homeobox genes he discovered ( which are transcription factors specifying segmental identity in metazoans from insects to humans ) is determined not only by the ‘ recognition helix ’ that sits in the major groove of the DNA , but also by a flexible segment at the amino-terminal end of the homeobox which appears to wrap around the DNA so as to contact the minor groove . |
| 19 | It is left with one unused electron that sits in an isolated energy level in the middle of the energy gap . |
| 20 | The story that one of them must have told a Daily Sketch reporter a year later was that sitting in a West End club and finding the cold unbearable they had decided to go somewhere warm . |
| 21 | If learners were encouraged to be more active in the learning process , rather than sitting in a classroom , and this active learning was based on patient care in the clinical area , would the learning be more realistic ? |
| 22 | Well I do n't like office , I love hotels and I think having meetings in a hotel 's more civilized than sitting in an office . |
| 23 | It seemed a better idea than sitting in the village street for three hours . |
| 24 | And let that sit in the shoe box and then tape the shoe box . |
| 25 | But a time arrives when you would rather do almost anything rather than sit in a stuffy fringe theatre on a Saturday night with a dozen heads all nodding aggrievedly in agreement on how South Africa is now really rather a nasty place . |
| 26 | Well , there 's a certain romance in floating in a warm swimming pool on a cold winter 's night , looking up at the stars and wondering whether to fling oneself down the rapids or go and sit in a Jacuzzi instead . |
| 27 | Every year some of the Culler coats ladies dress up in lifeboat gear , and sit in a row as though they are pulling a lifeboat . |
| 28 | I order a vodka and orange and sit in a corner beneath peeling mauve and silver flock wallpaper . |
| 29 | You need a certain kind of front to breeze in from an alternative reality in the back of a time-travelling Volvo and sit in a Presley City bar , with a two-headed nipper on your lap , complaining to a private dick from the twenty-fifth century that you do n't have time for nonsense . |
| 30 | This argument , that the Scottish party should elect its own leader , raise its own funds , hire and fire its own staff and sit in a Westminster coalition with the English and Welsh Labour Party , is something which acutely interests a few hundred activists , but not many MPs , and one guesses , precious few voters . |