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 | I sit on an authority they are very tiresome at times they make mistakes at times rather like Governments My Lords but at the end of the day that surely is what democracy is all about is n't it ? |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | I sit for an hour , alone at a table with only one drink of scathing hard whiskey , which does not fall lightly upon my throat , but burns my mouth and neck with the sting of memory . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | I sit in a sleeping bag once they 've gone to bed . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | ‘ 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 |
| 24 | 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 ? ’ |
| 25 | Someone sitting at a table at the far end of the cafe got up and came over to them . |
| 26 | 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 . ’ |
| 27 | Someone sitting in a compartment in front of you when you got on the train at Didcot ? ’ |
| 28 | Look , can I sit for a moment ? |
| 29 | I sat without a word . |
| 30 | 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 . |