Example sentences of "[pron] sit [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Above them sit the bold , craggy edges — the first of which is Raven Stones on the very lip of the plateau .
2 During his three years at University College , London , he got work each Christmas with the post office in his home town of Woking : ‘ When I was coming to the end of my university period I sat a civil service examination with possible jobs at the end which included income tax , the secret service and the post office which involved travelling as a management trainee .
3 Made from sterling silver and standing 30 inches high the cup weighs 325 ozs , has two handles and is topped with a lid on which sits a miniature football .
4 The SP1 runs AIX/6000 Version 3.2.3 on top of which sits the Parallel Operating Environment .
5 However , there was no computer system to manage the exercise — when the nav wanted a position line or fix he pre-warned the instructor , who sat the other side of the ‘ cockpit ’ facia , and at the appropriate time a piece of paper was pushed through the wall with the details scrawled upon it !
6 She sat a long time by herself , looking at the forsythia .
7 In 1920 she sat the competitive examination to enter the International Labour Office in Geneva and joined its agricultural service .
8 well I mean if you 've been in , you sat the opposite way
9 At the end of the Boulevard there sits the enormous Catherine Palace , baroque and three times the size of the Alexander Palace .
10 Next the wife came to the second cavern , where there sat a fearsome bird , large as a mountain ; her feathers were of brass and her beak of iron .
11 There sat the poor thing with its windscreen smashed , its bonnet concertinered and the engine block on the front seat .
12 And on they travelled through the forest until they came to a place where the roads crossed and there sat an old woman resting on a stone .
13 Beside him sit the other island dignitaries , the representatives of each of the six communities into which the island is divided .
14 Either side of him sat a large , so lid man : one caught Marcus 's eye and he began an earnest inspection of the floor .
15 Beside her sat a tousled youth , enveloped in a woolly scarf .
16 But seated half-way down one side of the table and with no one opposite her sat an old lady .
17 Between us and the stairs was the desk , and behind it sat a fiftyish thin man with a lined but peaceful face .
18 In it sat a tiny beetle wearing goggles .
19 There were screens around her bed , and beside it sat the young Sub-lieutenant , almost as motionless as the form under the sheets , staring earnestly at the bandaged head and the small white face .
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