Example sentences of "[pers pn] sit [prep] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ? |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I sat on an upturned box , feeling the sweat beginning to trickle down my back . |
| 5 | I sat for an hour in my roomette looking out at the unvarying scenery and trying to imagine anything else that Filmer might have paid to have done . |
| 6 | I sat in an open posture and avoided nervous mannerisms ( i.e. not with arms folded ) . |
| 7 | I sat in an adjoining room and started off , ‘ My father owned a Roman Catholic prep school in Sussex … ’ |
| 8 | I sat in an armchair with a copy of Punch and pretended to read it , but my eyes kept going back to those lips and that tiny corner of pink tongue and I was in a turmoil . |
| 9 | A month or so ago I sat in an excessively warm room listening to a gentleman from Intel 's processor division telling the invited audience of dealers and journalists that 1992 would see a boom in 486 sales similar to the boom in 386 bought about by Windows . |
| 10 | She sat in an envelope from which air was removed . |
| 11 | She sat in an attitude of dumb submission , weary and spent , as if careless of the future her words had painfully shaped for her . |
| 12 | She made out Barbara Coleman 's white hair , low down as she sat in an armchair . |
| 13 | WE SIT in an eyrie above London 's Drury Lane , an eyrie with a lease that 's about to run out . |
| 14 | We sat for an hour wondering if any soup would be issued . |
| 15 | The ocean of bad weather racing in from the north west did little to cheer me , so we sat for an hour while I gathered strength . |
| 16 | And we sat about an hour did n't we ? |
| 17 | ‘ Do n't look so dismayed , ’ begged Mrs Alderley , taking Theda 's hand and obliging her to sit on an elegant Sheraton sofa . |
| 18 | A charge of £15 is made for infants under the age of 2 years on departure date , provided they sit on an adult 's lap during the journey . |
| 19 | David Tory , the president of the Open Software Foundation , has added another directorship to his CV , joining the board of directors at Service Systems International Ltd where he sits alongside an old colleague , chairman of the board Sam Goodner . |
| 20 | For the next four years he sat as an engrossing clerk on a stool in the dusty office , so thick with dust that it entered the sunbeams ; and bent over crabbed writing in the books , or showed dull clients in to see his father , or sat the examinations , which he passed . |
| 21 | With the gaunt warehouse and the high vista of derelict open space all round him , he sat on an oil drum , chewing gum . |
| 22 | Fred would listen patiently until he could stand no more and then depart to the small back yard , where he sat on an upturned tea-chest and vowed that one day he would forget how efficient his kitchen hand was and just do away with her . |
| 23 | He sat in an old deck chair and the two girls sat on the ground , each leaning against one of his legs . |
| 24 | It sat upon an ancient heathen site , a site far darker than anything I could ever have conceived and it instantly became part of my well of strength . |