Example sentences of "[been] sitting [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Well , I 've been sitting up with one of my best sows . |
| 2 | And Ben like when we were sort of there Ben sort of we 'd been sitting around for a while and he said it 's very embarrassing to have to ask this but you 're staying the night and stuff erm are you two a couple or are you just friends so no , just friends but it 's alright , if you do n't have any spare rooms we 'll be perfectly happy to sleep together , do n't worry . |
| 3 | It was only on the second and third day after the tragedy that the family slowly began to realise how many other people had been sitting around in shocked disbelief at the news . |
| 4 | I 've never known Ellie voluntairily stop home to cook when all of us been sitting around in the boozer chewin' the fat . |
| 5 | I 've been sitting here since two o'clock my two o'clock cup of coffee . |
| 6 | ‘ You mean to say we have been sitting here for an hour with a motorbike and sidecar parked outside ? ’ |
| 7 | What about the last we did yesterday actually designers and training , it 's quite a , it 's quite a struggle that had a long day , been sitting here for a couple of hours I du n no it seems longer and there you are and you 're actually struggling |
| 8 | I must have been sitting here on the edge of his bed , first singing and stroking , then just stroking , for half an hour or so . |
| 9 | Around July time Sequent will release , for its Symmetry servers , the version of Unix SVR4 ES/MP that it worked on for Unix System Labs and has been sitting on since completion last March . |
| 10 | Mrs Denham refused his offer , and tucked the baby under one arm , and started to drag the blanket she had been sitting on after her into the house . |
| 11 | They had all been sitting quietly for some time , waiting . |
| 12 | Sammy , who had been sitting quietly by their feet , jumped up and began barking . |
| 13 | He had been sitting quietly in his hovel of a home when stray gunfire smashed into his jaw and blew half his face away . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'd say you 'd been sitting out in the sun too long . ’ |
| 15 | They had been sitting together at the top of their organisations throughout the years of cut-backs . |
| 16 | A man who had been sitting silently by on the wooden form got to his feet , his hand outstretched , and he said , ‘ There ! take it ; and if you want to pay it back put it in the voluntary box she was talking about . ’ |
| 17 | And I wondered why there was n't and I 'd been sitting there for ages , twenty five past five is the appointment . |
| 18 | Nor did she mention the fact that she 'd been sitting there for nearly three hours . |
| 19 | Not until she had been sitting there for several minutes did Isabel realise that no sound at all had come from her torn and bleeding lips . |
| 20 | You 've been sitting there for an hour watching the fire almost go out . |
| 21 | Since the embers were cool , Tallis imagined that she had been sitting there for hours . |
| 22 | erm , it 's actually sitting there on the Meridian er Business Park , it 's been sitting there for three years er overgrown with er grass and what have you and it 's there . |
| 23 | It 's been sitting there for about three months . |
| 24 | They 've been sitting there for over a week |
| 25 | Just imagine if he 'd been sitting there with his legs dangling outside . |
| 26 | I heard this with embarrassment , remembering how terribly bored and miserable I had been sitting there on a long hot afternoon , hardly understanding a word as chiefs and elders talked to our delegation in local dialect . |
| 27 | It was a freezing cold day and I 'd been sitting there in nothing but these dungarees that I 'd been working on the roof in . |
| 28 | Here she was , imagining that the last half-hour had been a sort of truce — telling Marc all those things about her life on the stage , all those silly , funny , self-mocking stories of disaster and mayhem that were part of the business , and he 'd been sitting there in judgement all that time , working out how much Peter might or might not have paid her for playing the part of his fiancée … |
| 29 | Or some of the time I 've been sitting there in the bed feeding the baby , you know |
| 30 | I 'm not , I 've been sitting down for half an hour . |