Example sentences of "he sit [prep] the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He watched his dejected figure walk past him into the cottage and , after allowing a few minutes to elapse , followed him in and discovered him sitting at the table in the living room , his bag of apples and sandwich lying untouched . |
| 2 | Before the shooting Melrose Spence , a friend of the defendant , saw him sitting on the bonnet of his car , talking to someone in a jeep . |
| 3 | I found him sitting on the bench to the side of the house gazing out over Backyards . |
| 4 | He was that one , of course , and the night found him sitting in the back of a purring car being driven around the frosty streets of London in search of somebody to help him finish the story . |
| 5 | Athelstan made him sit on the floor with his back to the wall and , crouching down beside him , told him quietly what he had learnt : how the wood carving being made for the coronation pageant might hold a clue to the killer 's identity . |
| 6 | He sits across the table from Mrs Thatcher and her team , which can be a mixture of people from the Downing Street Private Office , the Policy Unit and the Cabinet Office , with one or two personal advisers and sometimes a Treasury minister . |
| 7 | Since the quadrupling of the defence budget in 1950–55 , the president 's main source of power has come from the fact that he sits at the head of a great ‘ national security state ’ — to adopt the phrase of Daniel Patrick Moynihan , a Democratic senator . |
| 8 | For example the owner of a motor vehicle can be said to use it where he sits at the side of the driver , who is not his employee and the vehicle is being used for his purpose ( Cobb v Williams [ 1973 ] RTR 1 13 ) . |
| 9 | He sits on the edge of the bed where Kate lies fenced in by bolsters and proffers it smilingly . |
| 10 | He sits on the bed for twenty minutes , sweating and smoking . |
| 11 | Each has a chief executive who , though he sits on the board of nearly 600 directors , is not accountable to the head of the group . |
| 12 | The bed height should allow the patient to touch the floor with his feet when he sits on the side on the bed , although his hips should be slightly above the level of his knees . |
| 13 | Try explaining it to Ashley as he sits in the back of the minibus watching the streets of Salzburg slip by for the last time as — filming finished — we begin the journey back home . |
| 14 | He sits in the House of Lords as a cross-bencher and is active in debates , particularly on environmental issues . |
| 15 | Though he sits by the gate of Shiloh , in his blindness watching the road , he is nearly the last in the town to hear the news . |
| 16 | He sits by the hour with three or four words on his typing paper and listens to the noise from the room of a neighbour . |
| 17 | When he came back he sat beside the litter of his meal on the table among the three children not quite knowing what to do with himself . |
| 18 | He sat to the left of the huge fireplace . |
| 19 | When I had nothing on at all he sat on the floor beside the bed with his cheek resting on one arm and watched my face while he caressed me . |
| 20 | Then he sat on the floor beside her , half turned towards her , leaning on one elbow . |
| 21 | More affectionate is his account of Minton who had , as he records , ‘ been brought along to my flat one evening by Keith Vaughan , where he sat on the floor with a drink in his hand , laughing a great deal and saying very little . |
| 22 | While I got us some bread and butter and milk he sat on the floor with his great head bent , staring at the carpet and tracing its patterns with his forefinger . |
| 23 | Between the noise of the bloody guns and clouds of bloody mosquitoes buzzing around my head , all I 've had for my two hours is more mosquito lumps on my face , and I 'm more tired than ever. , Taff and I chatted while he sat on the floor of the trench smoking his cigarette . |
| 24 | He sat on the document for fully 12 months with no communication with our elected local councils . |
| 25 | He did a really intimate show where he sat on the edge of the stage with his ankles crossed and talked to them and sang them songs . |
| 26 | He sat on the edge of the bed with his usual cynical observations , but he kept looking out of the corner of his eye . |
| 27 | There was cake , satisfying and fruity , and he sat on the edge of the chesterfield in Isobel 's sitting-room and ate it appreciatively between gulps of strong , sweet tea from one of her best bone china teacups . |
| 28 | He sat on the edge of the bed and dialled his office number . |
| 29 | He sat on the edge of a chair , eager to be away . |
| 30 | He sat on the edge of the bed to take off his boots . |