Example sentences of "[vb past] be sitting [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd been sitting on the edge of the bed when they 'd arrived , two large uniformed men . |
| 2 | He 'd been sitting on his fanny for three months now and here was a chance to do something . |
| 3 | At this point , a young woman who 'd been sitting on one of Bridget 's sofas jumped angrily to her feet and shouted at Geoffrey . |
| 4 | ‘ We 'd been sitting with him in hospital keeping his mind occupied , but when our visiting times changed and he was alone he would lie there and think . |
| 5 | With her spread hand she could pinch both of her temples and she 'd been sitting like this for a some time , holding out the light . |
| 6 | So , when he 'd first laid eyes on Judith — she 'd been sitting behind a desk at his accountant 's offices , her beauty all the more luminous for its drab setting — his first thought was : I want this woman ; his second : she wo n't want me . |
| 7 | He 'd been sitting in the car so long , it was hard for him to run . |
| 8 | Another unemployed divorcee said he 'd been sitting in his room late one night talking with a fellow inmate : |
| 9 | Her face and neck felt as if she 'd been sitting in the heat of an oven . |
| 10 | A lady phoned in saying she 'd been sitting in a café when some animal rights campaigners carrying collection tins arrived and ordered a meal . |
| 11 | They were sitting on two upturned kegs in the dark of the fo'c'sle — had been sitting for ever and longer , she felt . |
| 12 | Next I went to the Clerecia , where I had been sitting with Dana watching that wall-clock 's gift pendulum busily wagging away on the wall in front of the great baroque gilt altar . |
| 13 | He stopped , and there was a pause , and then someone started to clap at the back of the studio , and George , who had been sitting with his chin on his chest , impassively listening , looked up . |
| 14 | Filmer had been sitting with his back to me , it was true , but near enough to overhear . |
| 15 | Angalo , who had been sitting with his chin in his hands , gave him an odd look . |
| 16 | If Mitzi had been sitting on the lilac branch with the squirrel yesterday ( and at this point her thoughts brought a smile to Elisabeth 's face ) , she would have overheard much to have kept her mind and tongue engaged . … |
| 17 | Dad , who had been sitting on the stairs with his head in his hands , went into action . |
| 18 | She had been sitting on the shingle staring out to sea , her arms clasped round her knees , Timmy lying asleep on the small rug beside her . |
| 19 | He liked swimming too and in the summer had built a raft , but it had disintegrated in the middle of the river while he and the twins had been sitting on it . |
| 20 | He had been sitting on the cart since early morning and all he had to show for scouring the streets was an old tin bath that he had found on some wasteground , a couple of sacks of rags and one or two pieces of old iron . |
| 21 | A moment before Melinda herself had been sitting on the bag . |
| 22 | She had been sitting on the edge of the bed , and now she leaned forward to take the other woman 's hand again . |
| 23 | By the time morning came he was convinced he had been wide awake the whole night , though by that time he had remembered with the utmost clarity that the whole performance had taken place not in a television studio at all but in an enormous public lavatory , with Sir William and Lady Paice among the large crowd around the coffee table , and that his final humiliation was to discover at the end of the programme that he had been sitting on one of the lavatory seats throughout , with his trousers down around his ankles . |
| 24 | But as it was no longer where she had left it , then it must have done , unless someone had shot into Rose Cottage and stolen it while Cassie had been sitting on the loo . |
| 25 | When one complainant alleged that he had been sitting in the Common Bench while the complainant had had his proper challenges to jurors refused , the auditors of complaints simply accepted his statement that he had been sitting on the bench not as a justice but as a well-wisher of the complainant 's opponent ( the prior of Sempringham ) . |
| 26 | He slowly straightened to his full height and she realised he had been sitting on the bed leaning over her . |
| 27 | They had been sitting on the sands all day . |
| 28 | Benjamin , who had been sitting on the edge of his trestle bed , got up and opened the door . |
| 29 | Miguel had been sitting on the balcony staring out across the valley . |
| 30 | He had been sitting at a table in the corner reading an Italian newspaper and Sandison had hardly paid him any attention . |