Example sentences of "[noun sg] sitting on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | MPs were debating Maastricht again in the Commons last night after yesterday 's 22-hour sitting on the treaty ratification bill . |
| 3 | Nigger could vaguely see a figure sitting on the stone slab on the left hand side of the small room . |
| 4 | He is on the other side sitting on the end of the log . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Janine , stunned , had gone to the little girl sitting on the crate . |
| 9 | My eyes are on the black girl sitting on the floor , slumped against the wall , her eyes closed . |
| 10 | ‘ What the hell has Marissa got to do with any of this ? ’ he demanded brusquely , frowning down at the flushed cheeks of the girl sitting on the sofa . |
| 11 | The casual visitor to Dall 's crowded study might miss seeing a hyper-sensitive barometer sitting on the shelf , not much larger than a can of beans . |
| 12 | I glimpsed Auntie sitting on the bottom stair as I flew past above her head . |
| 13 | I think I need to say on that , that that should not be taken as the county council sitting on the fence between two opposing er extremes . |
| 14 | Ann , the caretaker sitting on the arm of one of the chairs with her pale blue nylon tabard on , cosily sipped tea . |
| 15 | In the courtyard is the Madonna of the Mouse , so called because of the mouse sitting on the shoulder of the baby . |
| 16 | The father was giving evidence at a Perth High Court sitting on the third day of the trial of an Alloa man , David Hepburn , 29 , who is accused of carrying out three sex attacks in 12 hours . |
| 17 | Shaun , of Hartlepool , Cleveland , said he was too tense to watch Saturday 's great race sitting on the sofa . |
| 18 | There 's this person sitting on the pavement watching them . |
| 19 | The stranger might refuse to admit defeat and maintain simply that the person sitting on the bench was not I , that he was I , and that it was with him that the man who was now doubting his identity was having a conversation a moment ago . |
| 20 | As she might have expected , it was almost empty , except for an air hostess sitting on the toilet , smoking . |
| 21 | Now do n't tell me you spent the night sitting on the station , because they would n't let you , or parked in a stolen car , because you 're not that stupid , not quite . |
| 22 | Behind the gun barrel , we could now see the tank crew sitting on the turret of the T-62 , one of them with a cloth tied round his forehead . |
| 23 | There 's a woman sitting on the bench in front of me and she 's eating chips from a bag . |
| 24 | I pictured this Somebody as a kindly woman sitting on the other side of a roaring log fire knitting a thick brown woollen sweater and listening to me with rapt attention . |
| 25 | He saw a tiny woman sitting on the settee , dressed all in black . |
| 26 | You know , he said just for the eh , erm , friendly he had when he was in the , in the Air Force , he was flying in and one of the properties in America was the big fat ladies they 'd pull the chain sitting on the loo and those loos there and it was |
| 27 | I spent the morning sitting on the floor and the afternoon standing up at the shelf . |
| 28 | An observer sitting on the star 's surface could , in theory , trace the history of the object as it continues to shrink until it reaches the so called space-time singularity , when all its mass is concentrated into a point . |
| 29 | The stretching exercises begin with the student sitting on the floor with his legs straight out in front of him and knees together . |
| 30 | They continued on along the line of booths , each with its owner sitting on the counter among his stained , dirty jars like some vast black spider , past the long , carpet-covered benches in front of them with the rows of men drinking coffee and smoking and talking , past the assorted smells of rose and jasmine , amber and banana , past the odd little restaurants with their grand brass jugs of hot water , their servants hurrying with coffee in glasses to some merchant about to strike a deal , past all this and then suddenly through the arch of the Bab es Zuweyla with its two soaring and fantastic minarets and out once more into the Tentmakers ' Bazaar with its donkey-saddles of red brocade and its camel-trappings adorned with cowries and little bits of looking-glass , its gaily-striped awnings and brilliant tent linings . |