Example sentences of "sit [conj] [verb] in the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In these days of digital technology and modular electronics , it 's hard to know where to turn when your blue-speaker AC30 begins to issue smoke , your Copicat starts munching recording tape or your beloved Marshall JTM45 just sits and coughs in the corner . |
| 2 | Mrs Mantini did not like Rachaela to sit and read in the shop . |
| 3 | children sit and sing in the book corner ; |
| 4 | The two of them stayed sitting and talking in the kitchen for an hour or so longer , and then , at about six o'clock , Matilda said goodnight and set out to walk home to her parent 's house , which was about an eight-minute journey away . |
| 5 | Sitting and relaxing in the sun is one of the great benefits of owning a garden . |
| 6 | It limits the number of holders of ministerial office who may sit and vote in the House of Commons to 95 and debars , amongst others , civil servants , judges , members of the police and armed forces from sitting . |
| 7 | But at the end of the second day of this Test showdown , Miandad was the one who could sit and chuckle in the dressing room , whatever the sporting public think of him . |
| 8 | ‘ The men can sit and camp in the lounge and we girls will slave over a hot stove . |
| 9 | There 's a great atmosphere at the open-air bar restaurant at the Trabukos where you can sit and relax in the heat of the afternoon sun . |
| 10 | She sat and listened in the back pew . |