Example sentences of "[pers pn] sit [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | They invited them to sit at a table and were joined by an unusually tall , thin man who was extraordinarily blonde for his age which was thirty to thirtyfive . |
| 2 | I thought I 'd write to a few comedians to see if I could get them to sit for a portrait , to get a few shots together for my portfolio , and then , suddenly , this snowball seemed to start rolling … |
| 3 | And in the fourth year I tend to do them an evaluation sheet , where I write down lots of questions about the project they have just done , and maybe get them to sit for a double lesson and write about the things they experienced and found out … |
| 4 | He took their cloaks and told them to sit on a bench which he pushed towards the heat of the fire . |
| 5 | Cut a slice off the bottom of each pear to enable them to sit in a dish without falling over , and place in an ovenproof dish well spaced out . |
| 6 | And he 's sent me to sit with a boy ! |
| 7 | I sit on a flat stone in one — the straw thatched roof would just have cleared my head — imagining what was kept in the neat stone alcoves . |
| 8 | I sit on a rock and listen to the water lap and the boys whistle as they pull their tin boats across the long sweep of the stony bay . |
| 9 | I sit on a smooth stone and watch yellow-breasted finches in their dipping flights across the still-warm air . |
| 10 | ‘ Sometimes I 'm so frustrated that I sit on a rock and shout my head off . |
| 11 | There are times when I go down to the beach at The Pit and I 'm the only surfer down there and I 'm so frustrated with it all that I sit on a rock and shout my head off . |
| 12 | I sit on a bench and re-read the morning paper , and try to do the crossword in my head . |
| 13 | I sit on an authority they are very tiresome at times they make mistakes at times rather like Governments My Lords but at the end of the day that surely is what democracy is all about is n't it ? |
| 14 | When I write biographies , I sit at a large kitchen table with a wide surface on which books and papers can be laid , essential for checking quotations or references . |
| 15 | Gordon and I sit at a table as the old snowys sup their milk stouts and get ready to cross the road to the theatre , where several stars of television are about to perform the fabulous musical My Fair Lady . |
| 16 | I sit for an hour , alone at a table with only one drink of scathing hard whiskey , which does not fall lightly upon my throat , but burns my mouth and neck with the sting of memory . |
| 17 | Later still , my realisation was confirmed for me when I read the following statement from one of Bruch 's patients : ‘ I am completely isolated , I sit in a glass sphere . |
| 18 | I sit in a sleeping bag once they 've gone to bed . |
| 19 | What I 'm saying is , ‘ Here am I sitting in a tin can ’ sounded exactly like a Simon and Garfunkel record , and the rest of the song was lifts from everything else . |
| 20 | Look , can I sit for a moment ? |
| 21 | I sat without a word . |
| 22 | The classrooms in which such learning takes place may look very different from those in which I sat as a child 50 years ago ( the walls are covered with paintings and there is a computer in the corner , the desks are informally arranged ) but the assumption that all learning is determined , ordered and mediated through the teacher is the common thread which links the schools of the 1980s with those of my pre-war childhood . |
| 23 | Hence when I went to the Lords in 1965 I sat as a cross-bencher , although periodically , according to my attitude at the time , I was supporting one or other of the two parties and rarely took a cross-bench approach . |
| 24 | ‘ For four years before being appointed full time I sat as a recorder so I have really been sitting in the crown court for 17 years , ’ said Mr Hewitt , whose work on the North Eastern Circuit has taken him to courts from Humberside to the Scottish and Lancashire borders . |
| 25 | I had my ideas worked out by the time I left for the 1960–61 Tasman series , and on the 24-hour flight to New Zealand I sat with a slide rule and drew the car as a pin-jointed structure , stressed it and arrived at all the tube sizes . ’ |
| 26 | I sat with a tomato juice in front of me for some time straining my ears to hear what Nigel was saying . |
| 27 | I sat with a cup of coffee on my lap , still half-asphyxiated by what I took to be Neapolitan warmth . |
| 28 | I sat with a price list . |
| 29 | Once I sat with an American psychiatrist , a specialist in eating behaviour , and observed a hugely overweight couple ( quite unaware that we were watching them ) eating their restaurant breakfasts . |
| 30 | I sat at a table in the window and drank a filtre . |