Example sentences of "sit with his [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In another movement pattern for arm and trunk control , the patient sits with his weight on his arms and moves his body , with the physiotherapist 's guidance , so that his arms have to react to help his balance . |
| 2 | The Chancellor might be forced to raise rates again if sterling took a nosedive , but he did not need to sit with his finger on the trigger . |
| 3 | The man sitting with his back to her at the table looked round . |
| 4 | Paddy was sitting with his back to the Land Rover looking at the map . |
| 5 | Johnny was sitting with his back to the window reading when the door was kicked open . |
| 6 | Filmer had been sitting with his back to me , it was true , but near enough to overhear . |
| 7 | When he came to , he was disorientated , staring blankly at a man sitting with his back to him . |
| 8 | Owner Louie Lalonde will tell you how Bill broke his own rule by sitting with his back to the door the night Jack ‘ Broken Nose ‘ McCall crept in and shot him . |
| 9 | Sitting with his back to the way they were going was unsettling . |
| 10 | Burun was in one of them , sitting with his back to the side pillar , his booted feet stretched out along the sill so that he was perched above a sheer drop to the marble-floored hallway below . |
| 11 | Walking to the far end of the cells passage , he lowered himself to the floor until he was sitting with his back to the wall facing the door with its broken lock hanging askew . |
| 12 | Sacco and Nooty found him sitting with his head against the cab wall , staring vacantly at his feet . |
| 13 | He stopped , and there was a pause , and then someone started to clap at the back of the studio , and George , who had been sitting with his chin on his chest , impassively listening , looked up . |
| 14 | He gave the impression of vulnerability by sitting with his chin on his chest so that he had no alternative but to look up through his eyebrows . |
| 15 | Angalo , who had been sitting with his chin in his hands , gave him an odd look . |
| 16 | Pat was sitting with his arm about Terry 's shoulders as though he wanted to reassure himself that his son had really returned , but even his low-voiced conversation with Terry was interrupted by Frank . |
| 17 | He was sitting with his hands inside his pockets , legs crossed , shoulders hunched , watching closely as if Rogers were trying to trick him . |
| 18 | In the chair before his desk , on which the pictures lay , Skaller was sitting with his hands in front of his eyes . |
| 19 | Ralemberg would sit with his wife in a flower-covered bower sharing a loving cup whilst Agnes and I would walk among the roses . |
| 20 | Well Michael 's got ta go and sit with his team over there . |
| 21 | no , he comes with Nigel who 's that your with ? , hello , alright ? , well no because I 've got a back ache , oh how was your day ? , well the Skipton Building Society are a pain in the arse are you not going to say a bloody word for the rest of the evening , he 's gon na sit with his hand on his neck and I shall shoot him |
| 22 | Swaddled in a large sweater , Travis sat with his arms about his legs , so still that he could have been a statue . |
| 23 | On this particular day Blind Io , by dint of constant vigilance the chief of the gods , sat with his chin on his hand and looked at the gaming board on the red marble table in front of him . |
| 24 | As he sipped his beer and sat with his back to the window brooding on the bare wall and the bedhead , he contemplated how far he had fallen and how quickly . |
| 25 | A man sat with his back to the open doorway . |
| 26 | He sat with his back to the pale bark of a birch and hugged his knees to his chest . |
| 27 | He sat with his back to the door , crouched over his desk . |
| 28 | The place smelt of oil , paint , damp and slow failure , and Marriage himself sat with his back to it in the cold sunshine , looking across to the willows and alders of the far bank and the fields beyond . |
| 29 | The chaplain , crouched on a stool near the fireplace , stared into the flames wringing his hands whilst Rastani , the silent , dark servant , sat with his back to the wall as if he wished the very stones would open and swallow him . |
| 30 | He sat with his back against a palm tree . |