Example sentences of "who sat [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You have the same wonderful face , but where is the kind and gentle boy who sat for my portrait ? |
| 2 | There was the black coffin with its silvered ornaments and the mourner who sat at its head this time was a widowed husband ! |
| 3 | " In that case I 'll accompany you , " he said abruptly , and offered her his arm like the gentleman he wanted to be , so that the women and old men who sat at their doorways in West Street stared in amazement at the unprecedented sight of Harry Pascoe on an errand of mercy with his wife . |
| 4 | Now there was her bantam hen to visit that tame favourite who sat on her head when she walked into the drawing room , the admiration of all , whose food she sometimes nibbled at . |
| 5 | As Sir Alan Walters once remarked , he is a cushion that ‘ bears the imprint of the last person who sat on him ’ . |
| 6 | Harry turned to his youngest son , who sat on his left and who was the family favourite . |
| 7 | On May 20 the Iraqi National Assembly issued a statement rejecting the decisions of the UN 's Iraq-Kuwait border demarcation committee , saying that Iraq strongly opposed the committee 's structure and the method it had followed , and that Iraq had had no say in choosing the three independent experts who sat on it . |
| 8 | If the inevitably deformed critics who admired his work — and the critics who sat with their faces pointing up at us did seem to have the countenances of gargoyles , while the aisles were crammed with their wheelchairs — knew of certain weaknesses — certain indulgences , let us say — they would see Pyke 's work in a different light . |
| 9 | But instead of panicking , he proposed to his girlfriend , who sat with him throughout the ordeal . |
| 10 | Erm er I 'm very grateful to Dr and I 'll offer him another story , a woman who 's now died whom I used to visit who sat with her coal fire set but not lit until someone would come to the door . |
| 11 | A tall French-Canadian and a Japanese-American girl who sat with them had taken the precaution of handing their luggage over to someone in tourist class where the doors were locked for the duration of the journey . |
| 12 | ‘ Actually you wanted Quinn , ’ snapped Odell at Lee Alexander and David Weintraub , who sat with them in the Situation Room . |
| 13 | It was the oriental gentleman who sat with them that sent the shudders down Doyle 's spine . |
| 14 | But the man who sat with her now in the huge heated conservatory that overlooked the gently foaming waters of the bay , dotted here and there with the lights of bobbing buoys , seemed relaxed and clearly in his element . |
| 15 | There was a nurse who sat with me and held my hand through that night . |
| 16 | The girl , accompanied by a policewoman and two social workers , was seen in private by Sheriff George Crozier , who sat with his gown and wig on . |
| 17 | Sir Fulke pointed to Rastani who sat with his dark face fearful and anxious . |
| 18 | Only then was she aware of the telegraphist who sat beside her , who smiled and gave her the thumbs-up sign . |
| 19 | The Inspector was advised by three ‘ expert ’ assessors , who sat beside him in turn at points in the hearing which bore on their speciality . |
| 20 | These sermons not only strengthened James I in his belief in the Divine Right of Kings but made an even deeper impression on the sombre young Prince Charles , who sat beside him . |
| 21 | He drove with fierce concentration , and sometimes his fierceness spilled over on to the passengers — especially on to Barbara , who sat beside him and navigated . |
| 22 | Miss Pamela Lyall , who sat beside him and talked carelessly , represented the modern school of thought in that she was wearing the barest minimum of clothing on her sun-browned person . |
| 23 | He turned to Blanche , who sat beside him on the settle , his face grave . |
| 24 | His only remarks had been addressed to his mother , who sat beside him . |
| 25 | The Dawn of Dreams had been a family affair ; the producer 's credit was for Robert Forbes , Jo 's father and Lorna 's husband , who sat beside his wife , his long , elegant legs half-hidden in the ultramarine satin folds of her skirt . |
| 26 | shape a figure or a head from the scrutiny of the model who sat before him , was felt to be an ‘ impossible ’ assault on an objective guaranteed to elude his grasp … |
| 27 | Drawing a deep breath to hide a flicker of nervousness , he stood at the great carved oak lectern and looked along the stalls at the nuns who sat before him there , so composed in their wimples of white and the dark garb of their Order . |
| 28 | She wished her father was like this young man who sat in his own shrine on a country kitchen dresser amongst used OHMS envelopes and sprigs of dried white heather . |
| 29 | GREATER love hath no man for his three small grandsons than a 71-year-old friend of ours who sat in his car all night outside a Cardiff toy store to make sure he was first in line for a much-wanted Thunderbirds Tracy Island from Santa . |
| 30 | Cranston stopped to enquire directions of one of the market stewards who sat in his little toll booth on the corner of Wood Street . |