Example sentences of "she [was/were] sit [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Amsterdam sipped his Madeira , seeing Topaz as clearly as if she were sitting opposite him . |
| 2 | Lee was cold suddenly as if she were sitting in a seawind . |
| 3 | She also felt as if she were sitting in front of a bespectacled lunatic who was making things up as he went along . |
| 4 | no she was sit in this |
| 5 | She was sitting beside Ken , who looked depressingly the same as he had done the previous night . |
| 6 | When , a little later on , as she was sitting beside the now sleeping child , she heard Liza come into the house , Harriet did not go downstairs but waited until her daughter stood in the doorway of the bedroom , wild-eyed and trembling . |
| 7 | She was sitting beside him now , staring straight out towards the sea . |
| 8 | She was sitting beside the Raeburn , knitting . |
| 9 | When they went into dinner and she was sitting beside Peter Suvarov , Julia took pains to draw him out and discovered him to be quite as attractive a character as his wife . |
| 10 | At half-past one she was sitting beside Maman at the dining room table : Maman who spoke not a word , who ate nothing — Twomey looked quite concerned as she waved away his offerings . |
| 11 | So here she was sitting beside me on the window-seat , shut in between a heavy curtain and a window . |
| 12 | She was sitting beside her father who seemed to be asleep on his back in the grass . |
| 13 | Ah , young love — she was sitting with her arm round him , crying silently . |
| 14 | She was sitting with her back against a tree more than half asleep . |
| 15 | Five minutes later , when he returned to the lawn , she was sitting with her back to the tree and , standing before her , he said , ‘ I do n't know how to thank you for your kindness . |
| 16 | ‘ But , more than that , she seemed to want everyone to know that she was sitting with somebody other than her husband . |
| 17 | She had met him in the Coupole the night before when she was sitting with her friends from the atelier , and he 'd known one of them and come over . |
| 18 | She was sitting with her back to him , and did not turn round even though she must have heard the sound of horse 's hooves on the hard pebbled path behind her . |
| 19 | Nona had a watch with a pretty red face , but she was sitting with her hands in her lap with the watch hidden . |
| 20 | She was sitting at the table with her chocolate cooling in the mug between her hands . |
| 21 | She was sitting at a table in the recreation room with her relatives round her . |
| 22 | She was sitting at a littered table with two noisy West Indians in colourful pullovers and a jaded , almost middle-aged fat lady with a fur coat . |
| 23 | She was sitting at the mirror in her room , having excused herself from her cousins ' chatter minutes before . |
| 24 | When he entered , she was sitting at the big table . |
| 25 | He was embarrassed , she knew , because she was sitting at old Eddy Moulton 's desk , upon the top of which poor old Eddy had so recently laid down his head and died . |
| 26 | She was sitting at the table , her fingers clasped beneath her chin . |
| 27 | And er very straight-faced in fact , and she was sitting at the back of the room , and I , I 'd just said to everybody , I said nobody here 's got a life purchased annuity , have they ? |
| 28 | She was sitting at the table with her back to me as I approached , concentrating on something in her hand . |
| 29 | Five minutes later she was sitting at a small table at the back of the dining-room , hidden from but within full hearing of the noisy bar . |
| 30 | Soft music flooded through her helmet , and if she ignored the sensation of movement , she could almost pretend she was sitting at home … almost . |