Example sentences of "[pron] sit [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everyone sits in a circle with one child , possibly the birthday girl , being ‘ Sleeping Beauty ’ in the middle blindfolded . |
| 2 | Everyone sits in a circle with one person sitting blindfolded in the middle . |
| 3 | Everyone sits in a circle with an unbreakable plate in the centre . |
| 4 | They invited them to sit at a table and were joined by an unusually tall , thin man who was extraordinarily blonde for his age which was thirty to thirtyfive . |
| 5 | I thought I 'd write to a few comedians to see if I could get them to sit for a portrait , to get a few shots together for my portfolio , and then , suddenly , this snowball seemed to start rolling … |
| 6 | And in the fourth year I tend to do them an evaluation sheet , where I write down lots of questions about the project they have just done , and maybe get them to sit for a double lesson and write about the things they experienced and found out … |
| 7 | He took their cloaks and told them to sit on a bench which he pushed towards the heat of the fire . |
| 8 | Cut a slice off the bottom of each pear to enable them to sit in a dish without falling over , and place in an ovenproof dish well spaced out . |
| 9 | And he 's sent me to sit with a boy ! |
| 10 | I sit on a flat stone in one — the straw thatched roof would just have cleared my head — imagining what was kept in the neat stone alcoves . |
| 11 | I sit on a rock and listen to the water lap and the boys whistle as they pull their tin boats across the long sweep of the stony bay . |
| 12 | I sit on a smooth stone and watch yellow-breasted finches in their dipping flights across the still-warm air . |
| 13 | ‘ Sometimes I 'm so frustrated that I sit on a rock and shout my head off . |
| 14 | There are times when I go down to the beach at The Pit and I 'm the only surfer down there and I 'm so frustrated with it all that I sit on a rock and shout my head off . |
| 15 | I sit on a bench and re-read the morning paper , and try to do the crossword in my head . |
| 16 | When I write biographies , I sit at a large kitchen table with a wide surface on which books and papers can be laid , essential for checking quotations or references . |
| 17 | Gordon and I sit at a table as the old snowys sup their milk stouts and get ready to cross the road to the theatre , where several stars of television are about to perform the fabulous musical My Fair Lady . |
| 18 | Later still , my realisation was confirmed for me when I read the following statement from one of Bruch 's patients : ‘ I am completely isolated , I sit in a glass sphere . |
| 19 | I sit in a sleeping bag once they 've gone to bed . |
| 20 | What I 'm saying is , ‘ Here am I sitting in a tin can ’ sounded exactly like a Simon and Garfunkel record , and the rest of the song was lifts from everything else . |
| 21 | ‘ I just keep coming in and see someone sitting at a computer not moving , and I wonder , should the computer be there in lieu of the person ? ’ says one broker |
| 22 | One leading broker admits , ‘ I just keep coming in and see someone sitting at a computer not moving , and I wonder should the computer be there in lieu of the person ? ’ |
| 23 | Someone sitting at a table at the far end of the cafe got up and came over to them . |
| 24 | Best of all , perhaps , was his splendid spoonerism that came from an ambitious attempt to say of one player , ‘ He 's sticking out his bottom — like someone sitting on a shooting stick . ’ |
| 25 | Someone sitting in a compartment in front of you when you got on the train at Didcot ? ’ |
| 26 | Look , can I sit for a moment ? |
| 27 | I sat without a word . |
| 28 | The classrooms in which such learning takes place may look very different from those in which I sat as a child 50 years ago ( the walls are covered with paintings and there is a computer in the corner , the desks are informally arranged ) but the assumption that all learning is determined , ordered and mediated through the teacher is the common thread which links the schools of the 1980s with those of my pre-war childhood . |
| 29 | Hence when I went to the Lords in 1965 I sat as a cross-bencher , although periodically , according to my attitude at the time , I was supporting one or other of the two parties and rarely took a cross-bench approach . |
| 30 | ‘ For four years before being appointed full time I sat as a recorder so I have really been sitting in the crown court for 17 years , ’ said Mr Hewitt , whose work on the North Eastern Circuit has taken him to courts from Humberside to the Scottish and Lancashire borders . |