Example sentences of "[pron] sit like a " in BNC.
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1 | I sat like a Hector until I suddenly remembered my stomach and began noisily to vomit . |
2 | ‘ You sit like a pair of toads , ’ said Franca . |
3 | She sat like a small spruce viper , neatly coiled opposite him . |
4 | Great-aunts were sometimes significant : a Scots farmer 's old sister , ‘ very straightlaced … you sat like a mouse ; ’ or the great-aunt of a Portsmouth docker 's daughter , ‘ an old , old lady ’ , who liked to celebrate receiving her weekly pension — ‘ Every weekend , pension day , she had a wee brown jug and she used to send me up the beer shop to get half pint o'stout . |
5 | Old school photo graphs show him sitting like a wise and attentive owl , surrounded by his charges . |
6 | He sat like a man stunned by the sudden news of death . |
7 | He placed it on a bale of straw and pulled up an upturned bucket as a chair before hopping on to a meal bin where he sat like a pixie on a toadstool with his arms around his knees , regarding me with keen anticipation . |
8 | He sat like a woman and talked like one , sending coy glances at all of us . |