Example sentences of "sit [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The families sit through a trial and feel short-changed by the sentence handed down . ’ |
| 2 | Maybe I 'm just being traditional in my tastes ; it is probably important to watch the compilation in small doses and not sit through the whole three hours as I did . |
| 3 | ‘ Sit for a little , like a good fellow . ’ |
| 4 | Or sit for a while with your back against the trunk of a mature tree ( preferably an oak ) ; breathe deeply and allow yourself to merge , as it were , with the energies of the tree . |
| 5 | Sit for a relaxing drink in its comfortable bar and you look out through picture windows which frame gondolas alive with colour and Venetian style . |
| 6 | I sit for an hour , alone at a table with only one drink of scathing hard whiskey , which does not fall lightly upon my throat , but burns my mouth and neck with the sting of memory . |
| 7 | The highest court in Britain is the House of Lords , but when they sit as a court the Lords consist only of a panel of members who have long judicial experience and who have been appointed as Law Lords . |
| 8 | The Greiner administration , which had lost its tiny majority because of Metherell 's earlier decision to leave the Liberal Party and sit as an independent , then recovered its position when the Liberal candidate won the by-election in Metherell 's former seat . |
| 9 | To get the intended effect the listener must either wear headphones or sit between a pair of loudspeakers positioned like large headphones . |
| 10 | AccuCard and its ilk sit between the power supply and the motherboard. so they 're too far downstream to help . |
| 11 | Sit opposite the other person ( rather than beside them ) . |
| 12 | They had n't negotiated any furniture to get to the far side of the room and sit against the opposite wall and she had the impression , either because of that or because of the resonance of voices , that the room was empty . |
| 13 | We sit against the wall , beneath a slogan reading ‘ Rescue My Foot ’ which has been spray-painted not by a patron , but by the owner , Abel . |
| 14 | I used to sit the , sit against the wall and hold onto my hay net . |
| 15 | We sit underneath the floral light display and look at the menu . |
| 16 | Sit behind the wheel of the Calibra and it could easily be mistaken for a Cavalier GSi . |
| 17 | If , at the end of several hours ' watching , I can walk into the Guitarist studio and sit behind the desk with any confidence at all , then I shall declare the whole operation a complete success . |
| 18 | You sit behind the horses , hold the reins and do the navigating . |
| 19 | Pat Murtagh , who chairs Birmingham 's private hire car federation , said that drivers face a nightmare every time they sit behind the wheel . |
| 20 | sit behind the wheels |
| 21 | A stream flows nearby , bubbling and gurgling , and you sit beneath a large , shady tree . |
| 22 | Large tower systems that sit beneath the desk are also worth considering , but check that the floppy drive is n't too low for comfort . |
| 23 | I sit near the fjord 's edge and wonder whether to continue south towards Latrabjarg or whether to return north towards Drangajökull . |
| 24 | Always sit near the door , try to sit near the driver , guard or conductor , and make a mental note of where the emergency alarm is . |
| 25 | This suggests that you should sit at arms length from your monitor and should n't site desks so that people sit near the back of monitors . |
| 26 | I said , of course and I said it would be nice company and so she said er you sit near the window , I 've seen it lots of times before , as I only live in Manchester . |
| 27 | I said it will be nice company and so she said er , you sit near the window , I 've seen it lots of times before as I only live in Manchester so she t well the two of us went together . |
| 28 | Dr Neil registered how withdrawn she was , and once they were back home hot , sugary tea was poured down her in a constant stream , and then , despite the warmth of the day , Matey put a shawl around her shoulders and made her sit near the fire . |
| 29 | ‘ Sit near the fire and let me bandage your arm properly . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ You sit like a pair of toads , ’ said Franca . |