Example sentences of "[pers pn] sit in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Christian Democrats voted by 66 to 28 to accept the Tories as ‘ allied members ’ , allowing them to sit in the same group as the Christian Democrats in the Strasbourg Euro-parliament from May 1 . |
| 3 | Many of them are made by floating the freshly gathered blossoms on pure water and then allowing them to sit in the sunshine for a few hours . |
| 4 | The laibon asked me to sit in the boma , and pointed to my tape-recorder . |
| 5 | He waves me to sit in the chair and I do , yawning . |
| 6 | Cool as you like , Paul bloody Lexington has asked me to sit in the wings for the entire run of this play and feed Micky Banks his lines ! ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I sit in a sleeping bag once they 've gone to bed . |
| 9 | When I sit in the room with it , he wrote , it 's like sitting in a room with a corpse . |
| 10 | Tony and I sit in the departure lounge of Heathrow wondering , yet again , how to fill the time between now and take-off . |
| 11 | I sit in the same seat as before , just by the window . |
| 12 | He knows that the knickers I wear when I sit in the saddle are not the smartest articles of underwear in my wardrobe . |
| 13 | As I sit in the sandbag shelter at 10 o'clock on this cold night on gate watch I have time to contemplate the months that I have spent in the Auxiliary Fire Service . |
| 14 | Meanwhile I sit in the spacious bar-restaurant , in this drool parlour , in this fancy vomitorium . |
| 15 | I sit in the grass at the side of the track , rubbing the skinned ankle . |
| 16 | She 's supporting an unemployed Turkish waiter with my money while I sit in the dark . |
| 17 | I sit in the top of the wood , my eyes closed . |
| 18 | I sit in the waiting-room for over an hour . |
| 19 | After breakfast , I sit in the outgoing waiting-room , facing the door , with Jackie and the women of yesterday morning clutching their knees and their overnight bags , looking pale . |
| 20 | Thus ‘ I look at the sun ’ and ‘ I sit in the sun ’ use the English word ‘ sun ’ in two different ways . |
| 21 | I 'll tell you this as I sit in the centre of my maze and listen to the clear song of the thrush : the murderous soul I met at Maubisson was one of the most chilling I have ever encountered . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | I sat in a thirteenth-century hall in Bruges in September 1988 and listened to Mrs Thatcher 's speech on the future of Europe . |
| 24 | Last Sunday I sat in a cold room with my daughter , the two of us reviling the malign fate which had robbed us of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea , our weekly TV fix . |
| 25 | I sat in a corner looking at the Dutchmen who smiled surreptitiously from the platform . |
| 26 | Gandalf says as much at II , 99 , though he is laconic about it — ‘ I sat in a high place ( the great tree in Lothlórien ? ] , and I strove with the Dark Tower ’ — since Aragorn and the others he is addressing can have no idea what is being referred to . |
| 27 | I sat in a corner and the uneasiness grew . |
| 28 | So with all this in mind , as I sat in a long queue of airmen for the preliminary examination , I was thankful . |
| 29 | One evening , I sat in a cantina with a row of bottles on the bar , and tried to remember absurdly small things about my own life . |
| 30 | I sat in a dhaba in the shade of a tarpaulin , nibbling Id sweets and watching the festive crowds milling all around me . |