Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] sit [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then he remembered that the cottage had been sold , the money placed in trust for his father 's mother , the income paying the fees of the nursing home where she sat all day rocking herself in a wheelchair — Alzheimer 's disease . |
| 2 | So although I sat tight as the communicants went forward I was not too conspicuously a Protestant . |
| 3 | Cecilia turned somewhat fearfully back and saw that the man and the bear had gone to the far end of the coach where a woman not much younger than herself sat alone . |
| 4 | For the moment if I sit still how everything |
| 5 | If I sat still and did not do anything then nothing else could happen that I might have to cope with . |
| 6 | And if she sat all alone in this unfamiliar kitchen , the silence of this big old house would definitely start to unnerve her . |
| 7 | What would you say to Fergie if you sat next to her on an aeroplane ? |
| 8 | That if the poor are hungry they will eat your food , and why should they not ? : that if they are dirty they will infest you with disease , and so they should : that if you ignore them they will mug you and steal what you have , which is no more than you deserve : that if they sit barefoot at your door they will hurt your conscience and you will have to let them in . |
| 9 | Because he sat most nights on his own and looking very much removed from the whole crowd , very dark-browed and quiet , we speculated endlessly on his story . |
| 10 | He lavished our son with kisses and promises of a perfect life while I sat dull and unresponsive . |
| 11 | ‘ No , surely not , surely not , ’ all agreed while I sat silent . |
| 12 | but even more content to have me hoe the weeds and ungum the filters for her while she sat half-naked on an ancient natural tube steel chair tipped back on two legs against the natural pulpboard side of her natural module A farmhouse , playing her warped old guitar . |
| 13 | Her daughter was taken away to Special Care , and she , like Nickie , hated seeing fathers come in looking pleased while she sat alone on her bed , waiting for her mother . |
| 14 | It is not you but my kidnappers who care for me now , who feed me and clothe me and shelter me while you sit safe and secure at home trying to find new ways to avoid paying for my release ! |
| 15 | Odd — I 've never dreamt about Cal , even though we 've been friends ever since we sat next to each other the first day I walked into that school . |
| 16 | Mum sat at the end nearest the wall , then my two sisters , whilst I sat next to Dad , who took the outside seat ready for a quick get-away when it was time to take the collection . |
| 17 | Sometimes , as I sit alone in my flat in London and stare at the window , I think how dismal it is , how hard , how heavy , to watch the rain and not know why it falls . |
| 18 | All she wanted , as she sat motionless beside him in the luxurious interior of the Aston Martin , was to reach out and touch the muscular , sun-bronzed knee so close to her own slender legs . |
| 19 | As she sat alone in the smoky little room eating her dinner , in walked a handsome man , with curly black hair and brown eyes , wearing a black hat and corduroy suit . |
| 20 | Her excitement , as she sat next to him on the narrow dirty furry seat of the bus , was almost too much for her . |
| 21 | I described the beauty of the fields and sky to him , as we sat close together in the shade of a tree . |
| 22 | One day , after Prayers , as we sat cross-legged |
| 23 | This problem was one that was confronting the brothers as they sat one late night at Rafferty 's after everyone had gone . |
| 24 | You can tell we 're English , she thought that evening as they sat four tables apart in the dining room , books propped against their separate water jugs . |
| 25 | The following day Tweed announced his decision to Monica as they sat alone in his office . |
| 26 | He went among the beggars who congregated in tube-station entrances , looking them over as they sat hunched and huddled on steps . |
| 27 | Always got like that when he sat still for a long time . |
| 28 | On one corner of the cart a torch flared , throwing the driver into ghastly relief as he sat cloaked and hooded , a grim death mask over his face . |
| 29 | As he sat pale-faced and impassive , she screamed : ‘ I do n't know how you can hide behind your solicitor and say absolutely nothing . ’ |
| 30 | As for North , ‘ he would either go to jail or be decorated ’ , Secord used to say to Hakim ; and McFarlane told him — as he sat jet-lagged and exhausted in his office the night after a gruelling Iranian session in Frankfurt — that ‘ if the world only knew how many times you have kept a semblance of integrity and gumption to US policy , they would make you Secretary of State . ’ |