Example sentences of "[pron] be sit [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | my Lord I can I 'm sitting early tomorrow because a witness is being cross examined by Mr got to go off to so tomorrow he simply could not er , he si simply could not be released but er with your clerk er we 've been able to speak to Mr |
| 2 | So I 'm sitting all I can hear , I 'll never forget it ah God help him fucking somebody from ah Go God help him next thing will we get an ambulance ? |
| 3 | I 'm sitting pretty in a nice house with a successful businessman and you 're left slaving away teaching a lot of nasty little children the ABC . ’ |
| 4 | When I found out that we had been placed next to each other in class with all my friends around I went , ‘ Oh no , I 'm sitting next to Grant ’ . |
| 5 | And I 'm sitting next to you right . |
| 6 | There 's no way I 'm sitting next |
| 7 | I realize I 'm sitting tense , as if something 's going to happen in the next three minutes . |
| 8 | She said I ca n't promise you , so I thought well I 'm sat six months now , so I phoned this ship thing yesterday on the telly called Just Start , no Start Again whatever it 's called and they gave me , they phoned me yesterday and they gave me a number of Cine Hill , Northampton which is the job advisory centre , adults education and then they phoned me yesterday and they told me who to get in touch with so I 've got an appointment Thursday at erm Northampton with the Social Services Department and they apparently map out all the places where you could go , say , say for instance that St Crispin 's is the mental home I can go there and be with the patients and then I can go to the Marina 's and be taught how to lift and how to bed bath and how to manipulate |
| 9 | Cos I 'm sat dead . |
| 10 | I was sat next to an Army wife of about my own age . |
| 11 | The bloke that I was sat next did n't take any either . |
| 12 | I became vividly aware of this disturbing phenomenon while I was sitting deep in thought on Hammersmith Bridge this afternoon . |
| 13 | COLBERT : I was sitting next to Bob Mcknight , and five seconds before it happened I said to Bob , the only person who can fuck this up is Tom Carroll . |
| 14 | I was sitting next to Professor St John Goth , who 's a long established member of the Circle , and often lectures at our meetings . |
| 15 | I was sitting next to Alex chatting . |
| 16 | I was sitting next to Mrs Gorman , and as usual Mrs Gorman was being very bright and amusing . |
| 17 | mm , cos listen to what I mean , Ollie goes , I was sitting next to Ollie yeah and she looks at my thingy , yeah , and she goes that 's what , you 've missed out three , so I sat there writing all the nec numbers , yeah , and miss goes the other table and I 'm like oh come on Carla hurry up and do the numbers inside , and I missed , I just could n't , I could n't catch up |
| 18 | One evening , quite late , when an old girl friend was staying , I was sitting cross-legged in my Oriental cradle feeling wise and Confucian when my friend could stand it no longer . |
| 19 | And I got really annoyed at the manipulation of the young , and the godfathers who are sitting free today . |
| 20 | ‘ I can see from where you are sitting that is difficult to appreciate . ’ |
| 21 | Other symptoms include chest pain ( commonly left-sided , dull or aching , and unrelated to the degree of physical exertion ; genuine heart pains are usually central , cramp-like , and brought on by exercise ) , headaches ( particularly ‘ tension headache ’ — a band-like pain around the head and back of the neck which begins a few seconds after waking and lasts all day , often accompanied by feelings of depression or despair ) , dizziness or light-headedness ( which comes on when you are sitting still and never heralds a full-blown faint ) , tingling in the fingers or around the mouth ( signifying panic-induced overbreathing ) , and a heightened awareness of bodily processes ( such as blood rushing through your ears , a rumbling tummy , or the thumping of your heart inside your chest ) . |
| 22 | It whirls you round and round , and you get pressed into your seats , and you scream and scream , and pretend to be frightened and you hope you 're sitting next to a boy … ’ |
| 23 | Nick said talk about Sterling Moss he said sodding fucking when you 're sitting next to . |
| 24 | ‘ Oh techniques of surveillance , when you 're sitting alone in a car you move into the passenger seat , make it look as if you 're waiting for the driver to come back … the trouble is , I never got a posting where I had to use it . ’ |
| 25 | but she 's okay while she 's sitting still . |
| 26 | Darren 's mam was saying Vivian 's only voted Conservative cos she 's sitting nice , she said they 've both got nice jobs and a nice big house and that . |
| 27 | She is sitting next to her neighbour , a black woman who was born in the tenements and whose brother lived nearby . |
| 28 | We have a guest who is sitting all alone . ’ |
| 29 | — and chuckling quietly in the semi-demented manner of someone who is sitting alone in damp clothes in an empty restaurant in a strange country waiting for a twenty-five-dollar pizza . |
| 30 | But her cause was badly damaged in 1985 , the day before she was to sit next to the Prince of Wales at a dinner in Florida , when it was revealed that she posed as a nude model in magazines and appeared in pornographic films in the late 1960s . |