Example sentences of "[was/were] sit [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Trog said , leading the way over to where the mortar team were sitting with their backs to the wall , having something to eat . |
| 2 | Tabitha glanced at the Zodiac Twins , who were sitting with their arms around each other , motionless as a pair of mannequins . |
| 3 | " Tell you what I 'll do , " he said goodnaturedly one evening in the presence of Dan Rowe , Peter Trewennick and Tom Jannaway , who were sitting with their tankards resting on their knees , " I 'll lay you a shilling mine 'll be a boy and your'n a girl . " |
| 4 | Once when dancing with Minton at the Gargoyle and hearing some Guards officers making snide remarks he walked up to the table , laden with food and champagne , where they were sitting with their ladies and overturned the lot , and was barred from the club for about two weeks . |
| 5 | The King and Queen of Hearts were sitting on their thrones when Alice and the Gryphon arrived . |
| 6 | The villagers were sitting on their charpoys , sucking lengths of sugarcane . |
| 7 | John and Angela were sitting on their anoraks near the top . |
| 8 | We were sitting on our patio having a drink one Sunday and who |
| 9 | ‘ My dear girl , you were sitting on my lap ! ’ |
| 10 | ‘ The details of the scholarship were sitting on his desk , ’ he says . |
| 11 | ‘ Put out your tongues , ’ he said brusquely to the wee ones , who were sitting in their best night clothes , with their hair newly brushed . |
| 12 | Elaine and George were sitting in their lounge watching South East at Six when the story of Louise Butler 's disappearance came on the air . |
| 13 | They were sitting in their chairs behind the cameras . |
| 14 | She and her Aunt Louise were sitting in her mother 's living room , drinking sherry and feeling close , as old friends and allies do . |
| 15 | If Labour Members were sitting in my seat |
| 16 | You were sitting in your seat , pressed back by the acceleration , and you saw the light beams curve . |
| 17 | Right , well , the Principle says that if you were sitting in your seat pressed back by gravity — because you were on the launch pad with the nose cone pointing upwards — the same thing would happen . |
| 18 | We were sitting in our caravan , and John Peel was going through the line-up . |
| 19 | We were sitting in our caravan , and John Peel was going through the line-up . |
| 20 | All she wanted to do was to sit on my knee and touch my face . ’ |
| 21 | The earl himself ‘ we children all loved ’ , remembering that their peculiar delight ‘ as a small child was to sit on his knee and inspect his watch , which could open and shut , and chief novelty of all in my eyes , could chime ! ’ |
| 22 | And my Ma … my Ma was sat on its lap all tiny like a shrivelled-up doll . |
| 23 | When he was little he was sat in his buggy |
| 24 | The Right-On alternative to the City was sitting under their noses in the form of the Greater London Enterprise Board . |
| 25 | She was sitting beside her father who seemed to be asleep on his back in the grass . |
| 26 | Charlie Jordan was sitting beside his boat enjoying a pipe while he repaired some tackle that had been damaged . |
| 27 | In the icy post-mortem , held in assembly the following day , the greatest crime we were condemned for was not the shouting and shrieking , but the fact that : ‘ One gal was sitting on her desk combing her hair ! ’ |
| 28 | wearing a dirty dressing gown , was sitting on her unmade bed , staring into space . |
| 29 | He entered the terminal building , then returned to stand with one hand on his haunch , the other sheltering his eyes to the right , then the left , where Delia Sutherland was sitting on her suitcase , unaccountably invisible to him . |
| 30 | She was sitting on her heels with a pin in her mouth , eyeing me with pity as I stood yet again in my mother 's wedding dress . |