Example sentences of "have [be] sitting [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I 'm sure she 'd been sitting there , but she was hardly wearing anything ! |
| 3 | I felt as if I 'd been sitting there half the night . |
| 4 | And I wondered why there was n't and I 'd been sitting there for ages , twenty five past five is the appointment . |
| 5 | Nor did she mention the fact that she 'd been sitting there for nearly three hours . |
| 6 | Isabel wondered how long he 'd been sitting there — intent , watchful , waiting . |
| 7 | 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 … |
| 8 | Just imagine if he 'd been sitting there with his legs dangling outside . |
| 9 | He 'd been sitting apparently fascinated by my World Religions class , and when he came up at the end I was sure he wanted to ask a question about Zoroastrianism or Thuggee , or whatever damned thing I 'd been going on about . |
| 10 | I got up , walked backwards towards the nearest dune , threw the can way high over the top of it , then came back , lay down where I 'd been sitting earlier , and closed my eyes . |
| 11 | ‘ He could have been sitting here instead of me . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | That meant he could have been sitting there , looking at her , for all that time . |
| 14 | She must have been sitting there reviewing the happenings of this last year for an age . |
| 15 | The chap would have been sitting there motionless with nobody drawing him which is something of a waste of time . ’ |
| 16 | Sammy , who had been sitting quietly by their feet , jumped up and began barking . |
| 17 | He had been sitting quietly in his hovel of a home when stray gunfire smashed into his jaw and blew half his face away . |
| 18 | ‘ It was a long time ago , ’ said Juliet , who had been sitting quietly . |
| 19 | He had been sitting quietly . |
| 20 | Ilse , who had been sitting quietly , produced another sheet from the file . |
| 21 | It was an elderly gypsy who had been sitting silently all evening , and the voice was as rough as the open road but when it sang the room became quiet . |
| 22 | 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 . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Why do you say there are n't any aliens ? ’ asked Joe , who had been sitting apparently lost in thought . |
| 24 | He made his way easily to the door and was about to close it when he caught sight of something tucked into the corner of the car between two wooden containers , out of sight from where he had been sitting earlier . |
| 25 | Li Shai Tung sat where his son had been sitting only moments before , silent , studying his Marshal . |
| 26 | They had been sitting together at the top of their organisations throughout the years of cut-backs . |
| 27 | Harvey had been sitting there , waiting , for fifteen minutes . |
| 28 | We had been sitting there since early that morning , cracking the nuts , picking out the flesh with needles . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |