Example sentences of "[noun] sitting [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The NATO Secretary-General , Manfred Wörner , commented that " to see defence ministers who were in a sense at the heart of the Cold War confrontation sitting in a spirit of partnership around the same table is a remarkable and moving event " . |
| 2 | Each girl had a room allocated to her and each floor had a cashier sitting behind a desk . |
| 3 | ‘ That 's wonderful , ’ said the man , but then he saw four Scots sitting at a table without a drink . |
| 4 | She expects to find Minna and Becky sitting in a huff in the coffee lounge , keeping as great a distance as they can manage from their ridiculously costumed sisters and brother-in-law . |
| 5 | The odd , lugubrious figure sitting on a stool at the bar was now completely hidden from view along with the half-caste man yanking the arm of the one-armed bandit a few yards away . |
| 6 | Seb recognised the disconsolate figure sitting on a milestone at the top of a hill , no more than two and a half miles from Swinbrook . |
| 7 | ‘ I do n't remember her really , only as a figure sitting in a chair … |
| 8 | Looking inside , he was aware of a misty atmosphere and a figure sitting in a chair at a desk . |
| 9 | He indicates a figure sitting in a corner of the darkened , empty lobby . |
| 10 | Some time later I heard a chink of glass and looked up to find Dennis sitting at a nearby table with a half-empty bottle of chilled rosé . |
| 11 | There may be truth in such a suggestion ; and my own dislike of it may stem from nothing more profound than my intense dislike of the word ‘ leisure ’ , suggesting to me , as it does , the spectacle of some drone-figure sitting in a deck-chair while someone else mows the lawn , or a grim marina , packed with empty yachts . |
| 12 | I remember my wedding ring sitting on a fat burgundy cushion , Oliver leafing through the telephone directory looking for people with silly names , how I felt . |
| 13 | Anyhow … the feeling in the water continued to indicate the away win , and the clincher ( for me ) was seeing 2 magpies sitting on a street light on the way . |
| 14 | Dad was photographed in his red waistcoat and Indian pyjamas sitting on a gold cushion . |
| 15 | Otherwise it tends to make the whole picture , like , I went to er er one club once and there was a very nice portrait , not unlike this , there was a girl sitting on a stool , rather less clothes on than this girl has got and it was very nicely done except she was sitting on a painted stool and all the paint was chipped and that to me looked really tacky ! |
| 16 | ‘ The answer to both your questions is yes , ’ she told the girl sitting at a long table on the far side of the room . |
| 17 | face us all , and the whole Christmas used to be , we used to tease my brother cos he was the young one , you know , and she 'd say , no , no , do n't tease the little , oh , no do n't say that , and the whole of Christmas , was Aunty May sitting on a sofa , being fed brown ale in never ending glasses , not adding one single thing to the whole of Christmas at all . |
| 18 | I suggested putting an old lady sitting on a bench with a lace shawl erm er sculpture of so that it represents er Nottingham lace and etcetera and I said it would look more attractive and catch people 's eye than what 's there at the present . |
| 19 | There 's a photo of a cat sitting on a chair , licking its paws . |
| 20 | There are always people on this land : a boy sitting on a grazing buffalo , a girl cutting short , dusty grass with a sharp hand-held hoe , filling a basket to take home for the oxen . |
| 21 | A boy sitting on a wall fell off backwards and came running round the end of the wall a moment later saying , ‘ What have I missed ? |
| 22 | When they reached the Lion d'Or , the first person they saw was Jack Hammond sitting in a corner of the terrace . |
| 23 | In the copy of the Shah Jehan Nama now in Windsor Castle there is a fine miniature painting by Murar illustrating the scene : all the princes are dripping with gems and strings of pearls ; the youthful Dara , a downy moustache now covering his upper lip , leads his brothers into the great audience hall sitting on a black stallion . |
| 24 | She opened the cupboard door , to reveal a big brown hen sitting on a pile of clean towels . |
| 25 | They must convince the jury , or a judge sitting without a jury , that the words were true , or the comment was honest , or that the report was " privileged " . |
| 26 | On a celebrated occasion in Wales a county court judge sitting in a civil case in Bridgend had not completed the case when the train was due to leave , so he continued it on the train and gave his final judgement in the station-master 's office at Llantrisant . |
| 27 | After such strong expressions of opinion , I doubt much whether any judge sitting in a court of the first instance would be justified in treating the question as open . |
| 28 | And erm it shows erm a butterfly sitting on a cogwheel . |
| 29 | Wycliffe found Sergeant Curtis sitting at a table in the hall typing yet another report . |
| 30 | It is quite clear that in the 17th and 18th centuries and , indeed , up to the enactment of the Judicature Act 1873 the courts , and in particular the Court of King 's Bench , consistently declined to exercise any jurisdiction over any matters in which a right of appeal lay from the benchers of an Inn to the judges sitting as a domestic tribunal . |