Example sentences of "who sat [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | McQuade was a working-class Protestant , ex-soldier , docker , and professional boxer who sat for North Belfast and continued the independent unionist tradition of men like Henderson and Nixon . |
| 2 | The sitter seems to have been one of the more vapid society cocottes who sat for Vigee-Lebrun . |
| 3 | It was one of the schools that came out of the Reformation , for it was founded during the reign of Queen Mary by a landowner who sat for Derbyshire in Parliament . |
| 4 | It was probably his uncle , another Maximilian , who was MP for Westbury , Wiltshire , in 1628–9 , and his cousin Edmund who sat for Chipping Wycombe , Buckinghamshire , in the Convention Parliament of 1660 . |
| 5 | Of the seventy-two DUP members who sat on councils in 1978 , sixty were Free Presbyterians : eighty-three per cent ! |
| 6 | Plate glass welcomed the sun in to warm the inmates who sat in armchairs , waiting . |
| 7 | Exactly what duties they did perform she was uncertain but in matters of law and order it was Christie Goldsborough , and only Christie Goldsborough , who sat in judgement here . |
| 8 | The bishops and abbots among the lords often outnumbered the lay peers ; in addition , the king 's chief officers and councillors who sat in parliament ex officio included the chancellor , the treasurer and several of the king 's clerical judges . |
| 9 | Their coming caused consternation among the local people : Sir Thomas Wharton , who sat in Cumberland in 1539 to hear pleas of Inglewood Forest , reported to Cromwell that ‘ no justice Court i.e. , Forest Eyre had been held in that county within the memory of man ’ . |
| 10 | He had looked older when she had seen him at St Petrock 's ; but he had been scowling then , and now he was looking quite friendly and interested — rather like James , who sat in front of them regarding them both with faithful brown eyes . |
| 11 | If this is the best Europe has to offer , Hollywood 's producers will be sleeping more soundly than the old lady who sat in front of me during the screening . |
| 12 | Unfortunately not , the only two that I knew were Al ( Byrne ) and Kev Daly ( Who also played in the youth FA cup final ) Because I went to school with them — they were both 2 years below me but Al 's brother was in my year and Kev went out with a girl who sat in front of me . |
| 13 | In fact , if it had n't been for Granpa I would n't even have been made to attend the local elementary school in Jubilee Street , and ‘ attend ’ was the right word , because I did n't do a lot once I 'd got there , other than bang the lid of my little desk and occasionally pull the pigtails of ‘ Posh Porky ’ , the girl who sat in front of me . |
| 14 | From locality to Christendom : that was the range of vision of leading Scotsmen , kings , churchmen and nobles — transmitted , we may assume , to all those who sat in St Machar 's , their attention on the clergy at the altar distracted by what soared above them . |
| 15 | Strangely enough the clothes shop had once been the home of Paul Morley who sat in residence in its previous existence as a secondhand book sellers . |
| 16 | The New York judges who sat in Elmer 's case , for example , all agreed that they must not disobey the decision of the legislature reported in the statute of wills . |