Example sentences of "[pers pn] have been sitting [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had been sitting at the table housed in the living room bay window , trying to write a paper for a tutorial the next day , but Gavin and Janice had chosen to punctuate their highly audible coupling sessions ( in what the more tenacious core-areas of my long-term memory still sporadically insisted had once been my bedroom ) with an almost equally noisy episode of tortilla chip eating . |
| 2 | ‘ Sorry to be a pest , ’ Travis apologised , ‘ but I saw you come back without Naylor , ’ and while Leith was rapidly trying to find an excuse for her return to the house without the man everyone knew she had gone walking with , she found that Travis was too involved with his own miseries to want to delve into hers , for he went on , ‘ I 've been sitting in the library thinking about Rosemary , and getting more and more uptight about our situation , when you ran in and I started to think about phoning her . |
| 3 | She 'd been sitting on the edge of the bed when they 'd arrived , two large uniformed men . |
| 4 | Her face and neck felt as if she 'd been sitting in the heat of an oven . |
| 5 | She had been sitting on the shingle staring out to sea , her arms clasped round her knees , Timmy lying asleep on the small rug beside her . |
| 6 | She had been sitting on the edge of the bed , and now she leaned forward to take the other woman 's hand again . |
| 7 | She crouched forward in the chair , her muscles stiff , as if she had been sitting in the cold for a long time . |
| 8 | Why not get used to doing this stretch throughout the day — especially if you have been sitting in the same position for any length of time ? |
| 9 | ‘ If we had been sitting at the bottom I could accept my fate , but we are seventh and have lost only one of the last eight games . ’ |
| 10 | They 've been sitting during this meditation on her short useless history as a Socialist , they 've been sitting in the dark and now the moon rises , full and amber against a bar of cloud and Harriet 's face is bowed ; a drink at one hand ; and a cigarette droops glowing from the other . |
| 11 | They had been sitting on the sands all day . |
| 12 | They have been sitting in the back of the mini-van , swapping football scores and smoking cigarettes . |
| 13 | Clint says he has been sitting on the story of Unforgiven for 15 years waiting to grow into the part but denies that this could be the last time he saddles up and rides off into the sunset . |
| 14 | He 'd been sitting in the car so long , it was hard for him to run . |
| 15 | He wished that he could have listened to their conversation , but he would not have made much of it if he had been sitting at the next table . |
| 16 | His father had been working on the farm and he had been sitting at the door of the hut . |
| 17 | He had been sitting on the cart since early morning and all he had to show for scouring the streets was an old tin bath that he had found on some wasteground , a couple of sacks of rags and one or two pieces of old iron . |
| 18 | When one complainant alleged that he had been sitting in the Common Bench while the complainant had had his proper challenges to jurors refused , the auditors of complaints simply accepted his statement that he had been sitting on the bench not as a justice but as a well-wisher of the complainant 's opponent ( the prior of Sempringham ) . |
| 19 | He slowly straightened to his full height and she realised he had been sitting on the bed leaning over her . |
| 20 | He came forward into the firelight then and she saw he had been sitting beside the range , in an old rocking chair which he had left tilting back and forth , to take the lantern from her , grasping her free hand in his . |
| 21 | He had been sitting by the fire for some time before he decided to open the letter . |
| 22 | He had been sitting in the post all morning , waiting , as they all were , British and Americans alike , for Zack 's latest and maybe last call . |
| 23 | In October , in a similarly light-hearted vein , he recounted to Virginia Woolf how he had been sitting in the wings of the Westminster Theatre ( where Sweeney Agonistes was playing ) and , on another occasion , lighting fireworks in the company of John Hayward and W. H. Auden . |
| 24 | When one complainant alleged that he had been sitting in the Common Bench while the complainant had had his proper challenges to jurors refused , the auditors of complaints simply accepted his statement that he had been sitting on the bench not as a justice but as a well-wisher of the complainant 's opponent ( the prior of Sempringham ) . |
| 25 | Sometimes , when he had been sitting near the side of the boat , an ill-considered back cast sent him flying into the water ; and often it was a close run thing before I could get the landing net under his sodden frame . |
| 26 | It 's been sitting on the forecourt of a garage just outside Ross on Wye for the past few weeks , and is gaining a considerable amount of interest from passers by … but as yet no one is very serious about buying it . |
| 27 | He 's been sitting on the bench for the last hour and has never once taken his eyes off the shop . |