Example sentences of "be sitting there [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and it goes through their , for the rest of their twenties , the rest of their thirties and most of their forties and then suddenly bang maybe something ghastly seems to be happening which they are absolutely unaware of , you know , they do n't know why they are crying or , or er unable to cope with whatever they ca n't cope with and that 's it , that 's them off and they start worrying about er osteoporosis and you know an enormous number of , of now medically defined problems of the menopause , and they may start going on to all sorts of things like hormone replacement therapy or even primrose oil or whatever the hell and they 're sitting there at an age when they are fairly loaded up with experience and maturity and all the rest of it and they do n't know what they are doing . |
| 2 | You know , you 're sitting there with these guys , you 're looking for something to do , there 's a pile of instruments and you grab something that seems to fit . |
| 3 | There and you 're si and you 're sitting there on your sofa and you get this strange rumbling |
| 4 | All right , but you 're sitting there on the nursery provision for under five 's working party , you chaired that committee meeting yesterday . |
| 5 | Yes , yes , And you 're sitting there in front of a client , checking that you 've got smoker and not non-smoker etcetera , etcetera . |
| 6 | Erm , you know , if they 're sitting there in water and they 've been peeled and they 're ready to cook , they wo n't be cooked until they 're needed to be cooked , you know . |
| 7 | You 're sitting there like death warmed over . ’ |
| 8 | Stella I 've mentioned ; Stella I was her full title , she would be sitting at the bar , and then later , Stella II would be sitting there beside her . |
| 9 | They must be sitting there for hours with a camera ! |
| 10 | There 's a set up that checks a certain amount of areas and then blanks it otherwise you could be sitting there for hours waiting for a new Con activity so you just chew them off bit by bit . |
| 11 | And erm I think generally people do n't realize how quite unique that is. erm one thing , of course , which is also not erm very readily understood , is the involvement of the legal person , the Clerk to the Justices , in the system , so that with the three Justices you 'll having sitting you 'll have sitting below them the legally qualified Clerk , and I suppose it 's this particular feature of the system which is difficult for people abroad to comprehend _ how a legally qualified person can be sitting there without dominating the proceedings . |
| 12 | But his mother would be sitting there with this black cat in her arms : she 'd always got this black cat when he were n't there . |
| 13 | My mam 'd er well not m my mother all the mams , would be sitting there with the kids with their feet in the water to get used to it even when they were a few weeks old . |
| 14 | Everybody would be sitting there round the table having their Sunday dinner while down below them the kid would think he had the only important world to himself . |
| 15 | It did n't seem natural to be sitting there in the dark . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'd be on the beach sunbathing and he 'd be sitting there in a suit , collar and tie and black shoes . |
| 17 | So plainly that would n't necessarily apply to us but the the except the exception would be sitting there in policy and I I think it 's a it 's something we we would find very difficult er to live with . |
| 18 | And like they on the bus , yeah , cos all , all the little school girls are sitting there with these huge tits out |
| 19 | And I wondered why there was n't and I 'd been sitting there for ages , twenty five past five is the appointment . |
| 20 | Nor did she mention the fact that she 'd been sitting there for nearly three hours . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | You 've been sitting there for an hour watching the fire almost go out . |
| 23 | Since the embers were cool , Tallis imagined that she had been sitting there for hours . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | It 's been sitting there for about three months . |
| 26 | They 've been sitting there for over a week |
| 27 | Just imagine if he 'd been sitting there with his legs dangling outside . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 … |