Example sentences of "would sit in the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was going to walk her to her other job in the bar , across the Jardin du Luxembourg ; perhaps they 'd sit in the late sunshine , near the thin young naked girl who looked exposed and hence signified Truth , the inscription said . |
| 2 | Carpets and cushions would be ordered and we would sit in the hot stillness , our voices quiet , the half-English , half-Arabic clear on the heavy air . |
| 3 | After the shopping Denis would sit in the orderly room , watching his father write in ledgers twice as wide and twenty times as thick as his school exercise-books , or he 'd gaze longingly at the Royal Irish Constabulary uniforms of his father 's colleagues with their shining buttons and belts hanging neatly from pegs on the wall , the caps , the spiked helmets and the little pill-box hats of the cavalry police lined up , as if on parade , on a table along with whistle-chains , handcuff-cases and batons . |
| 4 | From about this time , or a little later , he was also meditating , according to Du Camp , a novel about the theatre ; he would sit in the green room jotting down the confidences of over-candid actresses . |
| 5 | John Young , a larger-than-life figure , had automatically assumed the Princess would sit in the Royal Box , and had sold tickets in the belief that everyone in the theatre would have a view of the Princess . |
| 6 | Sometimes I would sit in the deserted church of San Madin , a small twelfth-century romanesque building just off the Plaza Mayor , on the Plaza Poeta Iglesias . |