Example sentences of "sit [adv] in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Much later , in the eighteenth century , the Spanish artist Goya shows a caged owl being swooped upon by two free-flying birds , while a small caged bird sits nervously in front of it . |
| 2 | Well nobody can see if you sit right in front of it , can they ? |
| 3 | It galled him to have to sit impotently in silence ; worse still , that it had been witnessed . |
| 4 | Two o'clock — I then sit down in front of the television with a pen and piece of paper and watch the schools programme which I like because you can have a rest from writing and reading . |
| 5 | I wait until my husband 's doing the late shift , and I wait until the children have gone to bed , and I sit down in front of the television . |
| 6 | if you go into the room sit down in front of the typewriter and the exam begins , and you do it you could pass easy , well I 've done it and I 've passed ! |
| 7 | To sit down in meditation and think of these mystical ideas is to poise oneself for the transcendent journey . |
| 8 | We sit together in bed . |
| 9 | Bites generally occur when someone has sat down in woodland , bracken or heather , unaware that they are close to or on an adder . |
| 10 | He had just sat down in front of the television , beer in one hand , chicken leg in the other , feet on the coffee table , and Sportsnight just started . |
| 11 | Customers at Twr-y-Felin are likely to spend the evenings juggling , fire blowing or learning to tie knots , something they will remember , rather than being sat down in front of a video machine . |
| 12 | She had sat up in bed , panicked by the nightmare , weeping . |
| 13 | When she returns from theatre she is rather sleepy but is allowed to take fluids as soon as she feels able to sit up in bed . |
| 14 | About 3 hours after her return to the ward she was helped to sit up in bed , propped up on pillows . |
| 15 | Later she was assisted to sit up in bed . |
| 16 | I was hardly likely to sit up in bed and say ‘ Do come in , have we met ? ’ was I ? ’ |
| 17 | I got into bed , and I was really nice and warm , and I was lying back , I do n't really like to lie back when I 'm doing something , I like to sit up in bed , I do n't generally do work in bed . |
| 18 | ‘ Are you going to sit up in front there , all by yourself , Rainbow , darling ? ’ she asks . |
| 19 | Er and if you did n't start at that early hour you 'd , you 'd , you 'd never , they used to get , sit up in bed , have a wash , then lie down again and go to sleep . |
| 20 | I sit up in bed and swing my legs to the floor . |
| 21 | My hair sticks to it when I sit up in bed . |
| 22 | I sit up in bed and switch the light on , shaken awake by pure embarrassment . |
| 23 | So I always sit up in bed for ages really wide awake , and I 'm reading and doing all sorts of thinking like things , and I 'd be talking to Ben , and he would say yeah , yeah , and he 's really vague as well , and I , I get really angry and then I think you can tell because then you tend to lean across and say , are you alright , are you alright , and I just find it makes it worse . |
| 24 | She sits up in bed for a moment , doing some complicated breathing and flexing of the abdominal muscles , learned in yoga classes , to calm herself . |
| 25 | The great lady sits up in bed stark naked , with Sien 's face and torso , and we have no way of knowing why . |
| 26 | ‘ Those who sit back in politics can quickly find that others have moved on . |
| 27 | When I ca n't take it any more ( after about an hour ) , he sits back in triumph . |
| 28 | ‘ Allow me to sit back in amazement , young Ashley , ’ I said , crossing my arms and twisting in my seat to face her . |
| 29 | It would be awful to sit around in pitch black . |
| 30 | Sit around in silence like strangers ? ’ |