Example sentences of "be sitting [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The talk would take in all the great political and aesthetic themes : Jean-Paul Sartre would join in , for he would be sitting at the next table : together , artists and intellectuals would conquer life 's essential absurdity ; and from such discussions tomorrow 's painting would be born . |
| 2 | Whereas we used to have what you might call an across-the-table relationship with our customers , now we can claim to be sitting on the same side of the table . ’ |
| 3 | The lace carriage must be sitting outside the main bed , on its extension rails . |
| 4 | character actually , mind you she does er , it looks like one of those programmes you know er , when you do n't want to be sitting in the front row , if she 's going |
| 5 | He had expected her to be sitting in the little ticket office with her friend Maureen , but instead he found the office locked and in darkness and the entire frontage of the cinema deserted . |
| 6 | So that was how we came to be sitting in the darkened room with Granny 's coffin on the table , waiting for the neighbours to come and show their last respects . |
| 7 | I remember a statement ( Mr. Baldwin ) had made two or three years before , that probably the time was not too far distant when he and Mr MacDonald would be sitting in the same Cabinet . " |
| 8 | Nothing too conspicuous : this is broad daylight , and one never knows who might be sitting in the next taxi , stuck in a queue along Knightsbridge . |