Example sentences of "he was sit [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Sadly their honeymoon was a short one as Killigrew had , so , he sorrowfully informed his new bride , to hasten to Exeter , where he was to sit on the bench in the City 's courts .
2 He was sitting beside the river watching dead leaves floating downstream when he noticed that one leaf had suddenly started to behave very peculiarly — it was floating upstream .
3 When she came back he was sitting with the cat curled up on his knees .
4 He was sitting on the balcony of Room 302 at the Anpetuwi Lodge , and he was snorting smoke . ’ ’
5 He was sitting on the floor among the cracker wrappings and the crumbs , his shoulders shaking , his eyes tight shut .
6 He was sitting on the floor with his legs crossed , and had said nothing for over an hour .
7 He was sitting on the gate ahead of me , writing in a notebook .
8 In lexis , on the other hand , there may be a limited choice too , as between positive or negative ; but there may be a wide range of possibilities , as between He was sitting on the chair/bench/stool/seat
9 He was sitting on the wall by the broken tower where the pigeons had lived .
10 He was sitting on the edge of the sheet now .
11 He was sitting on the edge of the big desk when she entered .
12 He was sitting on the edge of the desk used to interrogate Jimmy Devlin earlier , having retired to that room for explanations .
13 He was sitting on the edge of the bed , his collar loosened and the tie he had worn at dinner hanging loose about his neck .
14 He was sitting on the edge of the table and was regarding her with his steady blue gaze .
15 He was sitting on the edge of her bunk now .
16 He was sitting on the counter in the shop , now , playing with the fiddling and fluting monkeys with his good left hand .
17 He was sitting on the ground near his packages over which he kept a protective , hostile arm , as if he did not want anything of his touched .
18 He was sitting on the bench along the wall on the left .
19 He was sitting on the side of the bed , his head slightly tilted , his eyes closed .
20 The carer then holds him in the same way as if he was sitting on the side of the bed , with his head resting on her shoulder , and lifts him up and round onto the second chair .
21 Look Joe — ’ Len leaned towards him from where he was sitting on the side of his bed and , lowering his voice , he said , ‘ I do n't want to probe , and I know I 've said this before , but I …
22 It shows that something stupid and it just went , spine , and he was sitting on the pavement out there for three or four minutes in agony ,
23 When I got back to the beach ten minutes later he was sitting on the baulk .
24 At nine o'clock on his second evening at Plumford , he was sitting on the terrace of the Ferry Inn .
25 He was sitting on the couch facing her , his arm stretched out along the back .
26 I lifted Harry until he was sitting on the walkway and then , still gripping him tightly , wriggled up beside him so that we were both sitting there with our heads wholly above water , which may not sound a great advance but which was probably the difference between life and death .
27 For all Dougal knew he was sitting opposite the murderer .
28 He was sitting at the kitchen table , wearing one of Buddie 's shirts and sipping cocoa from a large cup , when his nanny , Buddie 's mam , arrived at the house .
29 So he was sitting at the kitchen table eating his plate of beans when Donald walked in .
30 She threw her arms around Piers where he was sitting at the breakfast table , and nipped his neck with her teeth .
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