Example sentences of "[noun sg] sit [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Left : All five of the brightly coloured villages in Disney 's Caribbean Beach Resort sit on the edge of a huge lake , with beautiful sandy white beaches . |
| 2 | If there is an incongruous response sit in the light to assist lip reading , and repeat the question more slowly and loudly , facing the client , but without shouting or exaggeration . |
| 3 | The gap was about a foot and a half wide — wide enough for Sigarup to sit in the basket with his legs hanging down below . |
| 4 | What should Mr Major and the first media mogul to sit in the Cabinet , David Mellor , do ? |
| 5 | There are skylarks and foxes and an owl sits in the apple tree staring at us by the fire in winter . |
| 6 | A gilt harp sits in the bay window of the sitting room . |
| 7 | The male sits on the nest , but at the moment he appears to be out getting a meal . |
| 8 | They went down to Birmingham , and while the er , two chairmen negotiated in the dining room , over a , an extremely affluent lunch , Danny Blanchflower was em , pushed into the kitchen to sit with the servants , if you like . |
| 9 | It was emotionally captivating to see a truck laden with consumer goods draw up at Tazarbu , to hear the driver announce that he had a new poem from Muhammad Dabub in Ajdabiya , and to see shopkeepers , customers and driver sit in the shade to listen to the poem . |
| 10 | All peers of England have retained entitlement to sit in the appropriate House of Lords throughout . |
| 11 | Helen Martin , our chairperson said , ‘ The Heatfest weekend was so important to us as tenants because for the very first time , the people who live in the damp houses got the opportunity to sit round the table with the people who in the past were responsible for creating the kinds of conditions that we are now forced to live in and we could say , hey look ! |
| 12 | LIFESPAN always gives an immediate response to a user interaction , but not all the options are handled while the user sits at the terminal . |
| 13 | Monie , whose side sit at the top of Division One , revealed : ‘ We 've never been at the top so early . |
| 14 | I now see a certain awkwardness in the way Summerchild sits on the other side of my desk . |
| 15 | Yet Mrs Molina becomes the first Latino to sit on the county 's governing board since 1872 — and the first woman ever . |
| 16 | The Sovereign sits alongside the Swedish-made Levin Goliath as a well-made , medium-priced acoustic which plays well , sounds okay and is probably worth about £150 . |
| 17 | The other valve sits in the thick one like a lid , and the whole animal is curved so that the margins of the valves were kept clear of the sediment . |
| 18 | It was developed specifically for the larger urban workshops and consists of an adjustable loom with a device which , by altering the tension on the warp strands , shifts the completed work to the rear of the loom , allowing the weaver to sit at the same level throughout the entire rug-making process . |
| 19 | Between the depth and master volume is the manual switch for the chorus , while the ‘ effect on ’ light sits between the rate and depth pots . |
| 20 | That insignificant-looking £1,200 Breguet-made clock is clamped to the left windscreen stay and the standby compass to the right one , while a big red gear unlocked light sits atop the left glareshield in one 's line of sight during the flare . |
| 21 | Around the back , a ground-lift switch sits beside the three-pin mains socket , while another socket allows connection of the extension sub-woofer cabinet by means of a rather unusual ‘ Speakon ’ socket/ connector , which resembles the flexible pipe for plumbing in a washing machine . |
| 22 | Salt and pepper sit on the tables in old jam-jars : ‘ The biggest containers possible and they still get nicked , ’ says Mr Poole . |
| 23 | Selma sits in the shade of her house , enjoying a day 's holiday because her employers are away . |
| 24 | Another , indeterminate — but male — figure sits at the foot of a street lamp , among bollards near Le Sueur 's equestrian statue of Charles I. To the left of the sculptured pedestal of the statue is the afterimage of a third figure — silhouetted against the awning of a shop : the transparent hat , head and shoulders of another cab-driver . |
| 25 | Five Democratic Party ( DP ) members of parliament ( MPs ) joined the African National Congress ( ANC ) and announced on April 21 that they would in future sit in the whites-only House of Assembly as independents ( the ANC not being registered as a political party ) . |
| 26 | And so er , they changed hats , when they get there , and the chauffeur 's introduced a as the professor , goes on the platform , and of course the professor sits at the back of the room with the chauffeur 's hat . |
| 27 | Yellow sits on the fence between the powerful punches of red and true-blue ; curiously , green ties are often associated with failure . |
| 28 | Anya sits in the passenger seat , arms folded across her chest , making a pretty poor job of concealing her impatience . |
| 29 | They went with the notebooks and perspex box containing drawing instruments and a slide rule sitting in the open top of the bedside locker . |
| 30 | The Captain tried to slide the back window down as unobtrusively as possible when the young Sub-lieutenant sitting beside the driver began to choke . |