Example sentences of "were sitting [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And Karen last weekend , after you were sitting for them suddenly took ill on the Saturday I think , and Sheila was n't in any great shape , so he went back home er , from the office an over his lunch hour to see if he could just go and lend a hand , ge generally help out over his lunch hour . |
| 2 | The Trog said , leading the way over to where the mortar team were sitting with their backs to the wall , having something to eat . |
| 3 | Two old men were sitting with glasses in their hands , enjoying the mid-day sun . |
| 4 | As Anwar and I had these conversations Jamila liked to open the door to the store-room and just point the black barrel-ends of her eyes at me as if I were sitting with Eichmann . |
| 5 | Tabitha glanced at the Zodiac Twins , who were sitting with their arms around each other , motionless as a pair of mannequins . |
| 6 | Here , Hazel and Fiver were sitting with Dandelion under a flowering wild cherry . |
| 7 | " Tell you what I 'll do , " he said goodnaturedly one evening in the presence of Dan Rowe , Peter Trewennick and Tom Jannaway , who were sitting with their tankards resting on their knees , " I 'll lay you a shilling mine 'll be a boy and your'n a girl . " |
| 8 | Once when dancing with Minton at the Gargoyle and hearing some Guards officers making snide remarks he walked up to the table , laden with food and champagne , where they were sitting with their ladies and overturned the lot , and was barred from the club for about two weeks . |
| 9 | Mr Wopsle and Joe were sitting with a stranger , a man I 'd never seen before . |
| 10 | She was n't speaking to the men who were sitting with her ; she sat completely still , with a pale glass of something — ; Vichy water ? — untouched in front of her . |
| 11 | Grandma lay for a few days drifting in and out of sleep , unaware of everything about her , until one afternoon when Julia and Carrie were sitting with her . |
| 12 | The ladies of the village had already arrived , and were sitting with Antoinette in the white salon . |
| 13 | The ladies had gone , and Madeleine and Louis were sitting with Antoinette in silence . |
| 14 | They were sitting on opposite sides of the small hollow . |
| 15 | Peter and Nick were sitting on the sofa sharing a bottle of whisky with Sara 's backgammon board between them . |
| 16 | Carla and Nick were sitting on the grass , languidly tossing Sara 's frisbee to and fro . |
| 17 | Dominic , Barnabas , Samantha and Georgina were sitting on the kerb poking sticks through the drain cover . |
| 18 | They were sitting on the terrace outside her curved stables-cottage , watching the sun go down over Capability Brown 's vista , uninterrupted because of the ha-ha ( however did it get that name ? ) — and they were talking , over glasses of wine , about poetry . |
| 19 | One Sunday afternoon , when Dana and I were sitting on the edge of the bed working over versions of various poems , the door , which we always left unlocked , suddenly burst open and a group of surly-looking students entered , led by a big bully who was not Spanish but Venezuelan . |
| 20 | He was a Lebanese Muslim and he had been given the gun by the Palestinians who were sitting on the side of the broken street , sipping their own glasses of tea . |
| 21 | ‘ The details of the scholarship were sitting on his desk , ’ he says . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Fred Van Dyke , a pioneer of the North Shore breaks , recalls a time in the late fifties when he and Pat Curren ( Tom Curren 's father ) were sitting on the beach at Banzai and Pat said , ‘ Maybe in two thousand years this place will be surfed . ’ |
| 24 | Kristin and Sabine were sitting on the beach . |
| 25 | But Charles and Elaine were sitting on the rug before the open wood fire in the drawing room . |
| 26 | It was while they were sitting on the grass en famille watching the Highland dancing that Jean first noticed Berta . |
| 27 | Those of us lucky enough to be in the choir were sitting on benches in the corridor beside the hall , an open corridor where we sat at right-angles to the rest of the school . |
| 28 | I 'd walk up to the corner of Mill Street — a very scruffy street , and there was a gang of fellers standing on the corner and some of them were sitting on the pub sill and others standing around . |
| 29 | People were sitting on chairs , the floor , drinking coffee and chatting , various newsletters and pamphlets on the floor in the middle . |
| 30 | They were sitting on two upturned kegs in the dark of the fo'c'sle — had been sitting for ever and longer , she felt . |