Example sentences of "they [was/were] sit [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were sitting on the bed in their night things , their hair long down their backs : Jill 's light brown , Jennifer 's almost black . |
| 2 | They were sitting on the bed in Greg 's second-floor flat in Gloucester . |
| 3 | ‘ Miss Hatherby says that she can write to the principal of her college when I 'm in the sixth form and see if they can give me a place , ’ Constance said casually when they were sitting on the lawn one afternoon . |
| 4 | And then the er the older ones when they were if if they were sitting on the walls outside , the erm deck level flats , again they were either disturbing the people there or , the people were out shouting at them to get away and sit on their own walls and things like that . |
| 5 | It was while they were sitting on the grass en famille watching the Highland dancing that Jean first noticed Berta . |
| 6 | They were sitting on the terrace outside her curved stables-cottage , watching the sun go down over Capability Brown 's vista , uninterrupted because of the ha-ha ( however did it get that name ? ) — and they were talking , over glasses of wine , about poetry . |
| 7 | They were sitting on the terrace admiring the sunset when Monsieur Gauthier announced with distaste that ‘ that flic ’ was in reception and had requested a word with Melissa . |
| 8 | Private pilots who have never flown anything bigger than a C172 or a Warrior could without trouble convince themselves they were sitting on the flight deck of an airliner . |
| 9 | One morning they were sitting on the fence , waiting for the 9.15 , when Phyllis said , ‘ It 's going to London , where Father is . |
| 10 | They were sitting on the bank opposite Steen 's house , Miles on a new folding chair of shining chromium tubes , Charles on a relegated wooden stool . |
| 11 | It was time for the deadly follow-up — the Offensive Offensive in which John Major would savage his opponents , even if they were sitting on the benches behind him . |
| 12 | ‘ Are you afraid of the dark , Bobbie ? ’ asked Jim , when they were sitting in the darkness . |
| 13 | They were sitting in the cabin of the dahabeeyah . |
| 14 | They were sitting in the kitchen over a cup of tea . |
| 15 | They were sitting in the firelight , the candles making little red tongues of flame in the dark corners of the room . |
| 16 | They were sitting in the study at home , toasting by the fire before going in to dinner . |
| 17 | They were sitting in the Direktor 's music room , overlooking the mountains . |
| 18 | They were sitting in the Kardomah Café waiting to pick up paint and turpentine ordered by the stage designer from Haggerty 's warehouse in Seel Street . |
| 19 | It was Tuesday lunchtime , and they were sitting in the restaurant at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in the Mall ; Ginny often ate there when she had had enough of the food and the company in the canteen of the British Council . |
| 20 | They were sitting in the restaurant at the Windrush . |
| 21 | They were sitting in the shade of the cook 's galley . |
| 22 | They were sitting in the room that overlooked the pool . |
| 23 | They were sitting in the garden at the back of Jotan 's house . |
| 24 | Then , when the rice and meat were ready , Mina fetched some pots of river-water from the big copper container in the corner and everyone washed their hands where they were sitting round the fire . |
| 25 | A short time later they were sitting round the table . |
| 26 | One evening , when the two of them were sitting at the Rotonde , Beatrice , ‘ the lady of Montmartre ’ , entered with a handsome escort . |
| 27 | I 'd walk up to the corner of Mill Street — a very scruffy street , and there was a gang of fellers standing on the corner and some of them were sitting on the pub sill and others standing around . |