Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] sit [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I think I 'd rather climb ladders than sit at a checkout . ’ |
| 2 | Since then he has won three England B caps and sat on the England bench against Wales in Cardiff last year . |
| 3 | He went and got his overcoat and put it on over his pyjamas and sat at the table smoking a cigarette . |
| 4 | She was so pleased to hear him laugh that she ignored his words and sat on the floor at his feet . |
| 5 | At first she hovered in the farmyard , then she wandered over to the stables and sat on the outside steps up to Louis 's workroom . |
| 6 | Looking not at all disturbed , he settled the tray across her knees and sat on the edge of the bed to pour coffee for them both . |
| 7 | Her conversations with the villagers as they shelled peanuts or sat around the fire , the interest she took in her pupils and their home backgrounds , her journeys out into the villages on teaching practice or corps activities had given her an appreciation of how the Africans thought and felt . |
| 8 | A very similar hormone , adrenaline , can also be generated by a pair of glands known as the adrenals that sit above the kidneys . |
| 9 | They wandered down the cobbled streets to the Riviera , across the Villa Comunale and then over Via Caracciolo to the balustrade that separated them from the boulders that sat on the edge of the sea . |
| 10 | It is this tension between the grandiose themes of cosmology and its mundane workings that sits at the heart of Dennis Overbye 's superb book . |
| 11 | It must have been up there for years , it weighed at least 14 carats and sat like a throbbing lime fruit pastille on the back of my unmoving hand . |
| 12 | I used to go to the Botanical Gardens and sit in the sun , or wander round the aviaries admiring the birds of magnificent plumage . |
| 13 | So I came to the dinner for 20 minutes and sat with the sponsors . |
| 14 | The Divisional Court of the Queen 's Bench Division , which exercises a supervisory capacity over the inferior courts and sits as a court to which an appeal ‘ by way of case stated ’ may be made from the Magistrates ' Court , is bound by the House of Lords , the Court of Appeal and its own previous decisions . |
| 15 | ‘ You can go to distant planets and sit on the rings of Saturn , ’ says Lanier . |
| 16 | Well the men tend to come to our meetings and sit in the back now because their they well what in their words they say , Oh they they 're much better than the lodge meetings . |
| 17 | College staff often contribute to the management of local enterprise agencies , to small business clubs and sit on the committees of Chambers of Commerce . |
| 18 | Their first single ‘ Mystery Train ’ is restructured with bleeps and beats to sound altogether moodier , while ‘ Senses ’ is one of those emotional anthems that sits at the end of the set . |
| 19 | I 'd never heard of work till that moment , and there I was thinking of myself dressed in trousers and sitting at a desk with a ledger . |
| 20 | From being someone who simply happened to fail his first driving test , he becomes a person who ‘ always goes to pieces when sitting beside the examiner ’ . |
| 21 | I used to pull the blinds , turn out the lights and sit in the dark in terror , thinking , ‘ What am I going to do here ? |
| 22 | Water came from the taps and sat in an unnerving basin shape : the blue plastic failed to dematerialise from the world where I had been a grateful and temporary guest since the moment five years ago when I had vouchsafed in the sight of the God of men Ido . |
| 23 | ‘ I take half the coke and my boy gets to be water boy for the Flamingoes and sit on the bench . ’ |
| 24 | He walked over to one of the low , shuttered windows and sat on the sill . |
| 25 | ‘ Colder than this , ’ Schellenberg told him as they moved out through French windows and sat at a table on the pleasant terrace . |
| 26 | Although air travel started to grow again last year , it was mostly among passengers using discounted tickets and sitting in the economy section . |
| 27 | To get the intended effect the listener must either wear headphones or sit between a pair of loudspeakers positioned like large headphones . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | He crossed the corridor in two strides and sat in a small room that was used for counselling or small case conferences , leaving the door open and flipping impatiently through the file . |
| 30 | Duncan pulled up one of the chairs and sat opposite the man . |