Example sentences of "[pron] sit [v-ing] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I sat facing the prisoners with an automatic weapon across my knees , I could still see the wounded German Officer a few yards away . |
| 2 | I sat watching the children , sipping coffee and trying to pick out words from one of Hussa 's newspapers . |
| 3 | Ash and I danced , then cousin Josh asked her , and I sat watching the people dance for a while — the best way to extract any real enjoyment from dancing , I 've always thought , but I seem to be unusual in not gaining any real pleasure from performing the movements — and then saw Helen Urvill , entering the hall holding a lager can . |
| 4 | I sat holding the mug , looking in the direction from which I had walked . |
| 5 | It 's at such times , as you sit eating a damp sandwich as water drips from your nose , as you scour the map for all the things you ca n't see , that you wonder why the hell you do it . |
| 6 | 7 It 's terrific to see her without the bars between us. 8 She sits eating the treat food at the opening to the door and looking at me. 9 How does she know to look into my eyes and not at the huge finger next to her . |
| 7 | Her role was to distract the holy Thérèse , who sat reading the local newspaper inside the pigsty , and make her look up . |
| 8 | For a moment or two she sat watching a breeze ruffle the calm surface of the hotel pool — the bright blue water was so inviting that the moment you got out you wanted to get straight back in again . |
| 9 | And then , as she sat watching the dancers , Molly thought of something which made her shiver , so that Ken Corduroy , noticing it , thought she felt cold in the dark garden and offered her the sweater which , like so many of the older guests , he wore knotted about his neck . |
| 10 | When Richard had gone she sat watching the other guests ; Stella was chatting animatedly to a lean , grey-haired man . |
| 11 | She sat crumbling a beer mat between her fingers . |
| 12 | So what was wrong with her ? she asked herself for the hundredth time as she sat sipping a glass of wine in his apartment in the Barbican some weeks after they 'd first met . |
| 13 | As we sit watching the sparks going up , and as we inhale the fragrant smoke , we are inclined to become philosophical or to sing nostalgic songs … |
| 14 | Could anybody bring us a bottle down here you know because that would be nice would n't it on a on a cool Saturday afternoon here as we sit overlooking the grand metropolis of York . |
| 15 | Maybe it would be better if we sat facing the other way ? |
| 16 | ‘ How have you found us ? ’ the headmaster asked me — masochistically — one warm summer 's afternoon as we sat watching a cricket match . |
| 17 | Benjamin fell silent and we sat watching the guttering flame of the candle . |
| 18 | I met Jamie in the lounge bar of the Cauldhame Arms for lunch and we sat playing an electronic game over a TV table . |
| 19 | His top-storey apartment had a glass dome which allowed him to sit watching the falling stars . |
| 20 | Two hours later , as they sat watching an Irish comedian telling jokes that she herself considered quite unsuitable for family viewing , jokes that she hoped were incomprehensible to Celia and her grandparents , the telephone rang : it was her mother , to report that Liz had not telephoned . |
| 21 | They sat enjoying the fragrant smells and the coolness after their dusty ride through the city . |
| 22 | They sat sipping the strong , dark brew and chatted idly about nothing in particular , enjoying the warm velvety air , the star-dusted turquoise sky slowly changing to amethyst and the heady-sweet scent from a clump of yellow broom . |
| 23 | They sat savouring the malty brew for a while with the darkness silent outside the windows . |
| 24 | He sat watching the girl , wondering if there was any way of getting behind the mask . |
| 25 | Mr Malik , Robert reflected , as he sat watching the headmaster discuss the school 's proposal to take boarders , build an indoor tennis-court and a hard playing-area and organize a Community Service scheme , was a creature of his own imagination . |
| 26 | He sat pondering the ducks . |