Example sentences of "[noun sg] sit on [art] " 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 | He slipped his arm around her and they walked through the park to sit on a secluded seat there . |
| 3 | Symbolically the owl sits on an Evil Eye that has been pierced by a spear , suggesting that the owl 's own ‘ Evil Eye ’ has been incapacitated by the mobbing display . |
| 4 | The male sits on a favoured perch and when this is visited by a rival he sidles up to the intruder . |
| 5 | The male sits on the nest , but at the moment he appears to be out getting a meal . |
| 6 | The building sits on a awkward site on the left bank of the Seine . |
| 7 | I now see a certain awkwardness in the way Summerchild sits on the other side of my desk . |
| 8 | Yet Mrs Molina becomes the first Latino to sit on the county 's governing board since 1872 — and the first woman ever . |
| 9 | Salt and pepper sit on the tables in old jam-jars : ‘ The biggest containers possible and they still get nicked , ’ says Mr Poole . |
| 10 | Count Jovian , after three years at an English university , has no mind to sit on a throne : |
| 11 | Yellow sits on the fence between the powerful punches of red and true-blue ; curiously , green ties are often associated with failure . |
| 12 | The pictures are identical except in three respects : the presence or absence of a teddy bear sitting on the chair , a difference in the pattern on the counterpane , a difference in the position of a mirror . |
| 13 | MPs were debating Maastricht again in the Commons last night after yesterday 's 22-hour sitting on the treaty ratification bill . |
| 14 | The odd , lugubrious figure sitting on a stool at the bar was now completely hidden from view along with the half-caste man yanking the arm of the one-armed bandit a few yards away . |
| 15 | Seb recognised the disconsolate figure sitting on a milestone at the top of a hill , no more than two and a half miles from Swinbrook . |
| 16 | Nigger could vaguely see a figure sitting on the stone slab on the left hand side of the small room . |
| 17 | I remember my wedding ring sitting on a fat burgundy cushion , Oliver leafing through the telephone directory looking for people with silly names , how I felt . |
| 18 | He is on the other side sitting on the end of the log . ’ |
| 19 | Sliding the slag heap one day after school , he looked across the mountain and saw Auntie Lou and a soldier sitting on the grass by the side of a stream . |
| 20 | But not everyone ; a young soldier and his girlfriend sat on the balustrade , dangling their legs over the water , oblivious of anyone else . |
| 21 | He pointed to where the priest sat on a chair just within the hall door . |
| 22 | The priest sat on a bench , facing him across the rough table . |
| 23 | Then he and a calmer Ranulf sat on a log at the edge of the trees . |
| 24 | HIGH TECH SECTOR SITS ON THE FENCE |
| 25 | ‘ It 's an old story , it 's in Grimm , the hedgehog sits on a black cock in a high tree and plays the bagpipes and tricks people . |
| 26 | Several studies have described this gradual procedure of teaching the child to sit on the lavatory . |
| 27 | The neckplate sits on the instrument 's chamfered heel , the chamfering helping the player to access upper-register notes . |
| 28 | At the end of the case people would see a bit of film of the child sitting on the drawing-room sofa between his parents who never took their eyes from him during the interview . |
| 29 | Otherwise it tends to make the whole picture , like , I went to er er one club once and there was a very nice portrait , not unlike this , there was a girl sitting on a stool , rather less clothes on than this girl has got and it was very nicely done except she was sitting on a painted stool and all the paint was chipped and that to me looked really tacky ! |
| 30 | I was enjoying this small social triumph , but then a girl sitting on the other side of the pool lowered her book , took off her sunglasses and looked at me . |