Example sentences of "[noun pl] who sat [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " The gentlemen who sat on the bench were more or less connected with the shipping trade , and the law had been somewhat strained to obtain the conviction " . |
| 2 | Another survey , published in 1975 , covers the period 1876–1972 and , with a few omissions , analyses the 317 judges who sat in the High Court , the Court of Appeal and the House of Lords during that period . |
| 3 | Rape was not charged but there are dicta on the subject from six of the 13 judges who sat in the case . |
| 4 | The New York judges who sat in Elmer 's case , for example , all agreed that they must not disobey the decision of the legislature reported in the statute of wills . |
| 5 | But insisted that we got into a rowing boat instead , so we did , and after failures to dissuade us , we were promptly joined by three park-keepers who sat in the boat and insisted on ‘ helping ’ us to row ! |
| 6 | Cranston stopped to enquire directions of one of the market stewards who sat in his little toll booth on the corner of Wood Street . |
| 7 | On May 20 the Iraqi National Assembly issued a statement rejecting the decisions of the UN 's Iraq-Kuwait border demarcation committee , saying that Iraq strongly opposed the committee 's structure and the method it had followed , and that Iraq had had no say in choosing the three independent experts who sat on it . |
| 8 | The sitter seems to have been one of the more vapid society cocottes who sat for Vigee-Lebrun . |
| 9 | A colonnade along the west side above a raised pathway provided a sheltered dais for the chairmen of the popular committees who sat behind a table with two or three microphones . |
| 10 | Foxe describes how ‘ Master Tyndale , a man of no great stature ’ , was courteously persuaded to walk ahead , whilst the tall and comely Philips behind him pointed over his head ‘ so that the officers who sat at the door might see that it was he whom they should take ; as the officers that took Master Tyndale afterwards told Poyntz , they pitied to see his simplicity when they took him . ’ |
| 11 | The bishops and abbots among the lords often outnumbered the lay peers ; in addition , the king 's chief officers and councillors who sat in parliament ex officio included the chancellor , the treasurer and several of the king 's clerical judges . |
| 12 | If the inevitably deformed critics who admired his work — and the critics who sat with their faces pointing up at us did seem to have the countenances of gargoyles , while the aisles were crammed with their wheelchairs — knew of certain weaknesses — certain indulgences , let us say — they would see Pyke 's work in a different light . |
| 13 | Of the seventy-two DUP members who sat on councils in 1978 , sixty were Free Presbyterians : eighty-three per cent ! |
| 14 | I should perhaps add that I was not a member of the committee who heard these appeals in the first hearing since I became involved only when your Lordships who sat in the first hearing suggested a second hearing under my chairmanship and accordingly I have not been asked to consider this matter apart from the discussion of the extracts from Hansard which have been put before us in this appeal . |
| 15 | The interesting factor in all those arguments is that my hon. Friends who sat on the respective Committees or spoke on the Second Reading of Bills associated with privatisation said at the time that the Government were privatising monopoly , not introducing effective competition and regulation , and the matter would have to be examined again . |
| 16 | They possessed a faint whiff of humour , those men who sat at the ankles of Iosif . |
| 17 | " In that case I 'll accompany you , " he said abruptly , and offered her his arm like the gentleman he wanted to be , so that the women and old men who sat at their doorways in West Street stared in amazement at the unprecedented sight of Harry Pascoe on an errand of mercy with his wife . |
| 18 | Many of the men who sat outside the tents were stripped to the waist and some of them were barefoot . |
| 19 | Maisie and Joan , who collected catkins in the woods with me ; Lucy , who was always polite and a beautiful writer ; three very naughty boys who sat in the front row and made a nuisance of themselves : every teacher has memories like these . |
| 20 | The women who sat beside a single basket of herbs , or wild mushrooms they had gathered that morning in the dew , high in the hills , were tanned so dark they might have washed in walnut juice . |
| 21 | What she liked about the Savoy was the lack of babushkas , the old women who sat on every floor in all the other hotels and recorded all the movements . |
| 22 | Drawing a deep breath to hide a flicker of nervousness , he stood at the great carved oak lectern and looked along the stalls at the nuns who sat before him there , so composed in their wimples of white and the dark garb of their Order . |
| 23 | Plate glass welcomed the sun in to warm the inmates who sat in armchairs , waiting . |