Example sentences of "who sit [prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For 22 years , North Down has been the personal bailliwick of James Kilfedder , the former speaker of the ill-starred Northern Ireland Assembly and an independent Unionist who sits on the Conservative benches in the House of Commons but without the party whip . |
| 2 | But tell me , the English lady who sits with the peculiar gloves drinking sherry wine with your colleague . |
| 3 | Behind the scenes , many who sit on the Conservative Benches are betraying their concern even before the Bill has received its Second Reading . |
| 4 | Those of us who sat on the urban policies committee for a number of years seeing Moat devour and all the stoppages and problems there , knew that you were taking the wrong line . |
| 5 | The interesting factor in all those arguments is that my hon. Friends who sat on the respective Committees or spoke on the Second Reading of Bills associated with privatisation said at the time that the Government were privatising monopoly , not introducing effective competition and regulation , and the matter would have to be examined again . |
| 6 | Macmillan showered political honours on his backbenchers like confetti , and during the thirteen years of Conservative government which ended in 1964 over two hundred MPs , one third of all those who sat on the Tory benches , were rewarded with some sort of gong . |