Example sentences of "she [was/were] sitting [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 She was sitting beside the Raeburn , knitting .
2 And er very straight-faced in fact , and she was sitting at the back of the room , and I , I 'd just said to everybody , I said nobody here 's got a life purchased annuity , have they ?
3 She was sitting at the mirror in her room , having excused herself from her cousins ' chatter minutes before .
4 She was sitting at the table with her chocolate cooling in the mug between her hands .
5 She was sitting at the table , her fingers clasped beneath her chin .
6 She was sitting at the table with her back to me as I approached , concentrating on something in her hand .
7 She was sitting on the floor , surrounded by dogs and cats — when Christopher came in , and lay on the sofa , without a word — as he always did — and listened to the music with her .
8 and she 'd got a table in front of her and she was sitting on the settee and the table in front of her and this new jigsaw , over a hundred pieces in it and there she was lady
9 The memories are probably combined due to the fact that she watched the SS Great Britain being towed into harbour while she was sitting on the loo .
10 Dressed , except for one stocking , she was sitting on the edge of the bed .
11 She licked her lips nervously , and realised that she was sitting on the edge of the sofa , staring at him as though her life depended on it .
12 She was sitting on the edge of the seat , the front of her body pressed against the piano .
13 But one day when she was sitting on the branch , it broke , and she fell .
14 All birds are very temperamental and finicky with their food at the best of times , so I started by slipping titbits of chick under her feet while she was sitting on the glove .
15 She was sitting on the sill of the summerhouse and when the phone rang , she was ready to answer it .
16 She was sitting on the sofa , surrounded by old copies of the New Yorker .
17 She was sitting on the sofa holding a baby , with her little daughter beside her .
18 She was sitting on the bed beside him , clutching his shoulders and looking almost frightened .
19 She was sitting on the bed cuddling Carla when her mother came in and told her to go to the shops and get some bits and pieces .
20 She was sitting on the bed with her album — that sparsely-peopled record of whatever it was that she 'd left behind and she was n't leafing through it but hugging it close , as if it was a physical source of comfort to her when times were at their lowest .
21 She was sitting on the veranda , her ears still straining for a sound of the departing plane .
22 She was sitting on the side of her bed , trembling with worry for him , undecided whether or not it would be safe to discard her bath towel and go to his help , when she heard a footstep on the stairs and bundled back into bed , anxious to conceal the unattractive evidence of her nasty little experience .
23 She was sitting on the chair with her head
24 Alice was very nearly asleep when , suddenly , she was sitting on the ground .
25 She was sitting near the phone and she misses nothing . ’
26 She was sitting in the armchair with the baby curled over her left shoulder , his head buried in her neck , and both his hands clasped around her head .
27 And so it was that , four months later , she was sitting in the surgery with Emma , waiting their turn to see Doctor Rice .
28 Twenty minutes later she was sitting in the back of her big black car , drinking a cup of coffee and talking to the Chief of Airport Police on the car telephone .
29 She was sitting in the back of this car , all dressed up , and I remember saying to her , ‘ You do n't have to do this , you know ’ .
30 At a gala concert of the Philharmonia Orchestra to inaugurate an International Conference on Cancer Nursing , she was sitting in the dark of the Royal Festival Hall playing the movements on an imaginary piano on her knees .
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