Example sentences of "[pers pn] sit on a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He took their cloaks and told them to sit on a bench which he pushed towards the heat of the fire . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I sit on a smooth stone and watch yellow-breasted finches in their dipping flights across the still-warm air . |
| 5 | ‘ Sometimes I 'm so frustrated that I sit on a rock and shout my head off . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I sit on a bench and re-read the morning paper , and try to do the crossword in my head . |
| 8 | 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 ? |
| 9 | I sat on a large stone , shivering and looked north appealingly , shouting , ‘ Mick ! |
| 10 | When I got to higher ground , I sat on a long , flat slab of white rock in a salmon-pink sea . |
| 11 | I sat on a log among the shadows of creatures now extinct and others long since departed for pasture in the south . |
| 12 | I sat on a committee chaired by Paul Fox , a big representative steering group for the Royal Television Society 's Biennial Cambridge Convention ( the only woman ) , which he had asked me to be on at that time . |
| 13 | I sat on a bench near the door , with my slate . |
| 14 | Perhaps he heard , I do n't know , but he did n't look up and I sat on a stool near the door until it was finished . |
| 15 | I was drinking Monk and Monk was a heavy beer so fuck I gets out of the car and fucking oh fuck , but anyway said to me look I 'll go up , say my name , and I 'll bring you home , I was living with my sister at the time and I sat on a wee low wall , I 'm just the wall , fu fuck I , in the middle of the day , nobody , they were just drinking er Dawn this is way were , it 's fucking maybe twenty five years ago , twenty six and er fuck he sat me on the wall he had to s I could n't see he says to me er fucking I heard a voice , Raymond like this is the exam tonight you 'll have to sit there . |
| 16 | I sat on an upturned box , feeling the sweat beginning to trickle down my back . |
| 17 | If you sit on a chair next to a mirror , without the cosmetic benefits of tights of course , you will see the skin texture clearly . |
| 18 | If you sit on a cliff edge on Sea-lion Island to enjoy your pack lunch , as likely as not you will be joined by one or more of these amusing birds . |
| 19 | ‘ April , make sure you sit on a blanket . ’ |
| 20 | She sits on a rock . |
| 21 | A mile or so along the sand , she sat on a rock , looking at the grey/indigo streak of Italian coastline . |
| 22 | The moment that red ball began to flatten , she sat on a rock and strained to see along the flat road , along the plain leading to Siena , and sure enough she saw a black dot which grew larger and became a single horse and then she stood up and began to run towards it , waving and shouting . |
| 23 | She sat on a chair at the edge of the trees , an easel in front of her , painting . |
| 24 | A stunningly attractive woman in her late thirties , she sat on a corner stool nursing a Campari on ice . |
| 25 | She sat on a stool in the kitchen and gave orders like an admiral , you know , and it was wonderful . |
| 26 | She sat on a hard chair . |
| 27 | She turned the handle of the spit when the Algerian gigots were roasted , larded with garlic and anchovies , in a kind of oval cage of iron slats in front of a hot fire of vine-stumps inside the huge hearth ; she sat on a bench inside the cheminée , turning the ratchet as it wound down , basting the lamb with oil and its own juices from a diabolical long spoon . |
| 28 | He stood before her as she sat on a low chair , and drenched her with his urine . |
| 29 | She sat on a mighty fine chair , |
| 30 | But , pushing him aside , she gathered her cloak around her , made so bravely from those two old plush tablecloths , and began to walk downhill — the direction she happened to be facing — until she came to St Jude 's churchyard where she sat on a gravestone , her head in her hands , and shivered . |