Example sentences of "i [be] sitting " in BNC.
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| 1 | And now , on a clear morning , Graham Little and I are sitting at the bottom of the wall , fit and ready to go , and the wall is plastered with verglas . |
| 2 | Fairfax and I are sitting on the verandah at Folly Farm . |
| 3 | Probably when I am on the bus I am sitting in someone 's special place . |
| 4 | From where I am sitting on the Rhine embankment I can see the Siebengebirge and the Drachenfels , named for the dragon which guarded the treasure-hoard of the Nibelungs . |
| 5 | No it is n't quite as simple as that , not sitting where I am sitting . |
| 6 | Do n't remember going to bed , but I must have done because I am sitting up in Nigel 's parents ' bed writing my diary . |
| 7 | I am sitting by the side of a hospital bed watching Stewart trying to open a box of chocolates that Sir has brought him from me , if you get it . |
| 8 | For instance , when I am sitting on this chair , how do you want me to appear ? etc. , etc . ’ |
| 9 | Here I am sitting on my little iron cot and feeling very lost without you , seasoned trooper though I may be . |
| 10 | I am sitting in the shade of a gum tree , by the side of a dusty road in Pinjarra , Western Australia . |
| 11 | By the time I am sitting down to breakfast I ask myself , ‘ Where would I go ? ’ ’ |
| 12 | Who would think from the urbanity of this week 's column that I am sitting at my keyboard shivering , sniffing , coughing and streaming like a tubercular poet of the 1890s ? |
| 13 | The window I am sitting beside overlooks the back garden , where there is a perpetually erected bonfire , old cuttings , window sashes and a few wardrobe doors . |
| 14 | Suppose that I am sitting by a bowl of fruit ; my hand hovers over a pear , then a peach catches my eye ; their distinctive favours revive in memory and pull against each other , then my hand moves over and picks out the peach . |
| 15 | I am sitting with Deee-Lite and a couple of their American press agents in a modest Manhattan restaurant called The Savoy , and I am already feeling unqualified for inclusion in this company . |
| 16 | ‘ Bob , ’ she repeated , ‘ I 've got a grip on myself — and I am sitting down . |
| 17 | I am sitting opposite the Baroness — who was acquitted in August 1989 of the murder of her ex-husband Simon Dale , and in April this year sentenced to seven years imprisonment for forging the will of her elderly aunt , Lady Illingworth , and for stealing more than £500,000 from her — in the visitors ' room at Askham Grange prison , outside York . |
| 18 | What right have I to criticise so strongly ivory traders in China who are merely making a living , while I am sitting here killing unsuspecting animals for no reason at all ? |
| 19 | When I am sitting up there working with the librarian , pupils will come trotting in with little notes from teachers saying " I have been sent in to ask for books on … " and off they will go for that lesson which is what she wanted , so they have achieved it . |
| 20 | I am sitting now in an arbour of rust-coloured bougainvillaea drinking lukewarm , weak coffee , brought to me in a stainless steel pot by a waiter in a starched white uniform , thinking in an aimless way about this puzzle , when I see the waiter returning . |
| 21 | I put my candle on the table , and sat down here , where I am sitting now , to listen to their story . |
| 22 | To say " The chair I am sitting on actually exists " is similarly uninformative , since the chair I am sitting on already implies that a chair is there . |
| 23 | To say " The chair I am sitting on actually exists " is similarly uninformative , since the chair I am sitting on already implies that a chair is there . |
| 24 | I did n't think I 'd ever be able to afford it , but here I am sitting in my own fitted kitchen , in my own centrally heated home . |
| 25 | I am sitting in the cab crying the tears of the hopelessly misunderstood . |
| 26 | No , I mean that , Biba , because I am sitting here totally alone , going slowly out of my mind . |
| 27 | The jury is out on this and I am sitting firmly on the fence . |
| 28 | I expect Hamish will be writing again pretty soon again too , but here I am sitting at the computer anyway , putting off writing a series of begging letters to friends and connections in various educational and other institutions and organizations asking them to submit to Chambers Harrap ( as we now are ) all partable-with unpublished bumf ( memos , minutes , notices , reports , etc , etc ) to swell the ‘ ephemera ’ ( new stretched meaning ) content of the British National Corpus of English . |
| 29 | So , two days on the road and here I am sitting in the sun in a café opposite the , having just eaten and drunk the compulsory croque-monsieur and hot chocolate . |
| 30 | I am sitting eating cornflakes in the benign haze you are left with from making love before breakfast . |