Example sentences of "[pers pn] sit in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The laibon asked me to sit in the boma , and pointed to my tape-recorder . |
| 4 | He waves me to sit in the chair and I do , yawning . |
| 5 | 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 ! ’ |
| 6 | When I sit in the room with it , he wrote , it 's like sitting in a room with a corpse . |
| 7 | Tony and I sit in the departure lounge of Heathrow wondering , yet again , how to fill the time between now and take-off . |
| 8 | I sit in the same seat as before , just by the window . |
| 9 | He knows that the knickers I wear when I sit in the saddle are not the smartest articles of underwear in my wardrobe . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Meanwhile I sit in the spacious bar-restaurant , in this drool parlour , in this fancy vomitorium . |
| 12 | I sit in the grass at the side of the track , rubbing the skinned ankle . |
| 13 | She 's supporting an unemployed Turkish waiter with my money while I sit in the dark . |
| 14 | I sit in the top of the wood , my eyes closed . |
| 15 | I sit in the waiting-room for over an hour . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Thus ‘ I look at the sun ’ and ‘ I sit in the sun ’ use the English word ‘ sun ’ in two different ways . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | I sat in the kitchen and read the paper . |
| 20 | ‘ father brought me up here on his back in the spring one year , and I sat in the moor while he and old Donald were digging peats . |
| 21 | I could not understand his absence ; but suddenly , as I sat in the speeding train , a long way already from El Katara , I caught sight of his white burnous on the banks of the oued . |
| 22 | I sat in the cab for half an hour and then this fellow went off . |
| 23 | But … when I sat in the middle of the song , it worked . ’ |
| 24 | After lunch I sat in the car and listened to a Bush press conference . |
| 25 | I sat in the coffee bar for a long time . |
| 26 | I sat in the evening twilight with a glass of straw-coloured wine in its traditional glass of heavy amber stem and base . |
| 27 | Forty years later , I sat in the drawing-room of his home at Sevenoaks in Kent , watching him shake his head vigorously from side to side as he contemplated the ruins of his own efforts to resolve the Palestine problem . |
| 28 | I sat in the café as the rain showed no sign of letting up and drew up a short list of people I had met with whom I could air my perplexity . |
| 29 | I sat in the children 's ward , the only one left , and nursed a little boy who had once again returned , but who had developed a whooping cough complication on ‘ the day ’ itself . |
| 30 | I sat in the office one afternoon when I was off-duty , toying with the usual coffee and a wad ( a hard NAAFI bun of indeterminate ingredients ) , watching a young aircrew Sergeant Wireless Op/Air Gunner whom I knew slightly . |