Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] sit [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In front of me sat the smartest and most alert looking person I had ever seen in my life . |
| 2 | At one of them sat the men who , she was sure , had jeered at her from the wall beside the petrol pumps and were now slapping down playing cards and shouting Ventidue ! with much of their remaining strength . |
| 3 | But seated half-way down one side of the table and with no one opposite her sat an old lady . |
| 4 | Either side of him sat a large , so lid man : one caught Marcus 's eye and he began an earnest inspection of the floor . |
| 5 | Behind it sat a man whose physical appearance was out of all keeping with his professional stature . |
| 6 | Between us and the stairs was the desk , and behind it sat a fiftyish thin man with a lined but peaceful face . |
| 7 | Above them sit the bold , craggy edges — the first of which is Raven Stones on the very lip of the plateau . |
| 8 | In it sat a tiny beetle wearing goggles . |
| 9 | Beside him sit the other island dignitaries , the representatives of each of the six communities into which the island is divided . |
| 10 | Beside him sat a man of such immense proportions that Eddie Stratton wondered how he could ever fit into the seat that had been booked for him on the flight to Heathrow , scheduled to leave in forty minutes ' time . |
| 11 | At the controls sat a youngish man in no sort of uniform , and beside him sat an older man in cleanish overalls with grease on his fingers . |
| 12 | The dark room was untidy , a large bundle of clothes lay near the wardrobe door , on the bed lay the misshapen form of the Windsor tailor and next to him sat the figure of his youngest daughter . |
| 13 | Beside her sat a tousled youth , enveloped in a woolly scarf . |
| 14 | Beside her sat the treasurer , a formidable figure of some sixty years of age , in a pink gauze turban which did little to soften her high , bald forehead or her arrogant expression . |
| 15 | There the bailiffs pushed and shoved me through a porticoed entrance , down a long , dark , musty passageway into the main well of the court , fastening me to the bar ; beyond it sat the three magistrates before a square table ringed by clerks . |
| 16 | There were screens around her bed , and beside it sat the young Sub-lieutenant , almost as motionless as the form under the sheets , staring earnestly at the bandaged head and the small white face . |
| 17 | Next to us sat a man and his two children . |