Example sentences of "as he sit [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The prince was visibly moved by the bravery of Bronwen Vickers , 33 , a mother of two , from Knutsford , Cheshire , as he sat at the foot of her bed at Warrington General Hospital . |
| 3 | He was visibly moved by the bravery of Bronwen Vickers , 33 , a mother of two from Knutsford , Cheshire , as he sat at the foot of her bed at Warrington General Hospital . |
| 4 | The mail arrived early and he opened his letters as he sat at the breakfast table . |
| 5 | The raw , rough feeling in his voice was so obvious that Julia forgot all her determined restraint of the previous evening and put her arms around him as he sat at the table , laying her head on his . |
| 6 | ‘ What 's it all mean ? ’ asked Lewis , as he sat at the table , with a pint of Brakspear for Morse and a half of the same for himself . |
| 7 | Rubberneck , as he sat on the bed , his head way down , under it , saw the suitcase . |
| 8 | She lay awake until he came up but he passed their door without stopping and she heard his door close and the jangle of springs through the wall as he sat on the bed to take his boots off . |
| 9 | Feeling as if she had been dismissed , Lindsey watched as he sat on the bed and reached for his stethoscope . |
| 10 | She watched and listened as he sat on the bed , held the frightened woman 's hand and made her believe it too . |
| 11 | Two or three boys stood round him as he sat on the floor nursing the side of his head where a lump was rising under his probing fingers . |
| 12 | She shrank away in undisguised terror as he sat on the edge of the bed , reaching for her hand . |
| 13 | As he sat on the mud floor of his cell , disdaining the bed , he said that he would do exactly the same again . |
| 14 | ‘ Corp ’ will do , ’ Charlie said with a grin , as he sat on the end of the bed sewing a single stripe on to a sleeve of his uniform . |
| 15 | ‘ This is reward for many years of hard work , for all the perseverance and the lonely nights , ’ he said as he sat on the terrace of the clubhouse revelling in the atmosphere and attention of a successful first round . |
| 16 | ‘ Oh , love , ’ he whispered , as he sat on the side of the bed . |
| 17 | ‘ I do n't know , ’ he said as he sat to the table . |
| 18 | As he sat by the fire softening potatoes between his gums , he felt pleased with himself . |
| 19 | It was that particular phone he answered on that late November evening as he sat by the fire working on some files . |
| 20 | Peter was accused three times , as he sat in the courtyard of the high priest 's house , of being one of Jesus ' men and three times he denied it . |
| 21 | He went silent and dark and withdrew into himself , the two thumbs rotating about one another as he sat in the car chair by the fire . |