Example sentences of "have [be] sit in " in BNC.
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| 1 | And there 's Master Tristram pretending he 's not listening to his father , who might 've been sitting in the Fowey stocks by now if it was n't for that same father 's efforts . " |
| 2 | He 'd been sitting in the car so long , it was hard for him to run . |
| 3 | Another unemployed divorcee said he 'd been sitting in his room late one night talking with a fellow inmate : |
| 4 | Her face and neck felt as if she 'd been sitting in the heat of an oven . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ If I had any political objectives I would have been sitting in my cantonment ( barracks ) scheming and planning , ’ Gen Beg said . |
| 7 | Okay you may not have ever seen him , he may just have been sitting in the car , then remember his colour maybe his moustache and then the type of car he had . |
| 8 | You may have been sat in the Wendover if you 've come on the Sunday , but even having breakfast I bet you were going , what time do you think we ought to leave . |
| 9 | You were with the public , direct contact with the public and er I would hate to have been sat in an office and just looked at four walls . |
| 10 | Later that evening they had been sitting in a restaurant and Maggie had looked at Tom and said , her delicate face and long neck almost visibly aquiver with pleasure , |
| 11 | ‘ Way you go , Patty , ’ he said softly , and the dog was off , hurling herself along the embankment , all paws and flying ears , after a rabbit who had been sitting in a patch of sun but disappeared with contemptuous ease as she came close . |
| 12 | He would have posed the same question if he had been sitting in her position . |
| 13 | Jack had been sitting in the chair while Franca stood before him . |
| 14 | He had been sitting in the post all morning , waiting , as they all were , British and Americans alike , for Zack 's latest and maybe last call . |
| 15 | In October , in a similarly light-hearted vein , he recounted to Virginia Woolf how he had been sitting in the wings of the Westminster Theatre ( where Sweeney Agonistes was playing ) and , on another occasion , lighting fireworks in the company of John Hayward and W. H. Auden . |
| 16 | She was the first television celebrity he had met in the flesh , and he still could not quite believe the woman who had been sitting in front of him was the same one he had watched so regularly on the box . |
| 17 | It seemed that when he had arrested the thief , and reported to Sergia , she had been sitting in an ornate chair made of a local high-gloss hardwood . |
| 18 | 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 ) . |
| 19 | Dottie Banks had been sitting in the auditorium , so she was exonerated , with the same proviso . |
| 20 | She crouched forward in the chair , her muscles stiff , as if she had been sitting in the cold for a long time . |
| 21 | The two young people had been sitting in silence for most of the time Nahum had been upstairs , Seb gazing morosely into the fire and Carrie reading at the kitchen table . |
| 22 | At the time Patten had been sitting in his Smith Square office , gently smoothing the bags beneath his eyes . |
| 23 | Some members of the crew had been sitting in the bows and it was only when they denied having seen her that he began to search seriously . |
| 24 | They 've been sitting during this meditation on her short useless history as a Socialist , they 've been sitting in the dark and now the moon rises , full and amber against a bar of cloud and Harriet 's face is bowed ; a drink at one hand ; and a cigarette droops glowing from the other . |
| 25 | Griddles and flaming wheels seem a pretty soft option when you 've been sitting in pitch darkness with your pants full of scorpions . |
| 26 | You 've been sitting in a side road waiting to come out , and you see a vehicle coming along and it 's got its left-hand indicator on and you think Oh lovely ! |
| 27 | I know times I get it , like maybe just at one side , if I 've been sitting in a hard seat |
| 28 | ‘ You 've been sitting in that damned cottage for nigh on a year and you 've become a coward . |
| 29 | ‘ Sorry to be a pest , ’ Travis apologised , ‘ but I saw you come back without Naylor , ’ and while Leith was rapidly trying to find an excuse for her return to the house without the man everyone knew she had gone walking with , she found that Travis was too involved with his own miseries to want to delve into hers , for he went on , ‘ I 've been sitting in the library thinking about Rosemary , and getting more and more uptight about our situation , when you ran in and I started to think about phoning her . |
| 30 | They have been sitting in the back of the mini-van , swapping football scores and smoking cigarettes . |