Example sentences of "[be] sit [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | So people do n't feel as though they 're sat in a wide ai wide open |
| 2 | Whereby you 're sitting with a customer and you 've assumed that he 's bought |
| 3 | Oh yeah but I mean if you 're sitting on a seat or if you 've got sort of have the rails |
| 4 | So we 'll find out together whether you 're sitting on a fortune tomorrow morning . |
| 5 | We 're sitting in a pub in South London , near the Elephant & Castle , waiting for Guy Chadwick , the mastermind behind The House Of Love , purveyors of some of the best guitar-band pop of the '80s . |
| 6 | WE 'RE SITTING IN A VERY GRIM pub somewhere on the outskirts of London 's financial square mile and things are n't quite right . |
| 7 | He is one of the few comedians who , when someone truthfully observes , ‘ I say , you 're sitting in a dustbin ’ , can make the classic reply , ‘ Oh , so I am ’ sound like an hilarious joke . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ When you 're sitting in a pub and discussing the merits of the Beatles , you mention that and people look at you sideways . |
| 9 | I mean , if you 're sitting in a pub at night and some guys are showing off in a corner going ‘ Hey , what do you do , dude ’ and you go ‘ Well , I 'm a bobsleigher , actually ’ it tends to shut people up I should imagine , does n't it ? |
| 10 | Pretty much the same at the moment because I 'm I 'm sat on a couple of bills for Salford Council who I 'm sure can afford it for the moment . |
| 11 | We 've got Gerry Addams who er wanted earlier in the week if we were to believe what seemed now like to be sitting at a table discussing peace , there he is carrying a bomber 's coffin . |
| 12 | As he said himself : ‘ We do n't want to be sitting on a bad result for the next 3 ½ months . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Naah , I say rush it ! ’ laughs Bryan ; ‘ I 'd rather be sitting on a beach any day … ’ |
| 14 | ‘ You should n't be sitting on a breakthrough as big as this . ’ |
| 15 | Rachel sounds as if she 'll be sitting with a shawl around her shoulders when she 's 60 . |
| 16 | When the campaign is broadcast everyone will be sitting with a council tax bill in their hand therefore the issue is very immediate . |
| 17 | She had just bought ( in anticipation of her legacy ) a new Sony portable ( ‘ I 'll be sitting about a lot when I get very big ’ . |
| 18 | He would , he says , much prefer to have hands on the business , rather than be sitting behind a desk . |
| 19 | Now , I 'd rather be sitting in a car than standing on a crowded platform , but there was n't much in the way of light relief on the radio . |
| 20 | He may be sitting in a hospital bed somewhere in Italy at this very moment , wondering who he is and why he knows all these long words like hermeneutics . ’ |
| 21 | Sometimes we 'll all be sitting in a circle on the floor , but not always . |
| 22 | I 'm sitting on a bus without a destination . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'm sitting on a stool , ’ Fox replies . |
| 24 | I 'm sitting on a wet bench . |
| 25 | Now we all know because we 're print buyers to a larger or greater degree but they 're clients they over-estimate they add about twenty five per cent more on than they need and you have to send them back to sharpen their pencils several times before you 've seen the estimate , they of course know that all print buyers are idiots who keep forgetting all the important things and do n't give them half the information they need like the weight of paper or the fact that there 's to be a pocket at the back so , I think if we got the man I think if we maybe started off with H M S O the print buyer which is more akin to what we are and say well you know these are the problems I 've got I 'm sitting with a six million pound budget buying for the whole of the government of Scotland and I have problems and these are the problems that I have , then we get to the wee man from who says now wait a minute boys I get the rubbish that you send out , that was the message and let's make it funny but slightly aggressive let's highlight the real problems because that 's what it 's about , we 're not here for a nice night we 're here to learn |
| 26 | Sometimes if I 'm sitting in a bar , I 'm teased by strangers , who think I 'm a homosexual . |
| 27 | Suppose that I am sitting by a bowl of fruit ; my hand hovers over a pear , then a peach catches my eye ; their distinctive favours revive in memory and pull against each other , then my hand moves over and picks out the peach . |
| 28 | Wear sunscreen even if you are sitting under a parasol — the sun 's rays can still reach your skin |
| 29 | They are sitting on a bench now , watching Thor splash after ducks in the shallows . |
| 30 | We get £28 a week whether we are sitting at a machine all day or operating heavy presses . |