Example sentences of "sit in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ANY Scot who has ever sat in a drafty hall , feeling a mounting sense of doom while staring blankly at an exam paper has probably cursed Edinburgh-based Pillans & Wilson for collaborating in their misery by printing the question papers . |
| 2 | A smaller than usual proportion of members who had sat in the Good Parliament were re-elected to this parliament , but it is hard to find evidence that the government tried to ensure the election of their own supporters . |
| 3 | So for a full week he had sat in the outer office , and waited . |
| 4 | The man who had sat in the front passenger-seat leant down and grabbed the girl 's arm , dragged her through the dirt towards the car and pushed her in . |
| 5 | He may not , however , have sat in the final term as he was under sentence of excommunication , possibly for his part in the battle of Lewes . |
| 6 | They might have sat in the same prison cell as he was sitting in now . |
| 7 | It was the same husky voice that Pascoe had heard when he 'd sat in the empty house at the table laid for one . |
| 8 | Throughout the meeting he has been observing one student , possibly in his thirties , who sits in a long wheelchair with his legs straight , parallel with the floor . |
| 9 | Now , the elderly man who endured a waiter 's dirty fingers in his lemonade at Montrose could hardly have been more famous or respected , and there he sits in a dirty inn , happy to enjoy a little quiet , and quite at ease to do so , even in the company of one of the most garrulous men in the realm whose nature abhorred a conversational vacuum ; Johnson even expressed a simple delight in being thought as silent as a ghost . |
| 10 | Most 486 processors are seated on a 168 or 169-pin PGA socket , whereas the Dell sits in a 238-pin socket . |
| 11 | He sits in a Second Empire armchair , a curling pipe in one side of his mouth , the other side opening and closing every few moments , like a fish breaking the surface , to let the smoke out , and listen expressionlessly while Howard explains his ideas for the script . |
| 12 | Encased in gold and encrusted with gems , the saint sits in a hieratic posture with staring eyes , looking every inch an oriental potentate . |
| 13 | Also , my machine 's QVision card sits in a slow 8MHz ISA expansion slot , which restrains it considerably . |
| 14 | If a large predatory bird sits in a conspicuous position it may find itself being mobbed by smaller birds , which call , display , and even attempt to dive-bomb it with pecking attacks . |
| 15 | I leap off my spot and down into the cabin where it sits in a predominant place . |
| 16 | The kind who sits in a little island in the middle of a highly polished marble floor , looking gorgeous and untouchable , but … ’ |
| 17 | But Krauss suggests that we know very well what sculpture is : it is a historically bounded category , with its own set of rules , which are not open to very much change : its internal logic is that of the monument , a commemorative representation , which sits in a particular place and ‘ speaks in a symbolic tongue about the meaning or use of that place ’ . |
| 18 | god sits in a spinning wheel of light . |
| 19 | A Citalia favourite for over 30 years , this hotel sits in a square close to the lake 's landing stage . |
| 20 | Johnny sits in a quiet corner of the pub with the Echo crossword and a rum and black . |
| 21 | She sits in a soft curve at her easel , gently swabbing away three centuries from a grumpy London sky . |
| 22 | The band strikes up the overture and Clare , the assistant stage manager , sits in the cramped prompt corner , whispering urgent instructions to sound , lights and flymen . |
| 23 | 4 As soon as s/he sits in the hot seat , this person must become the chosen character . |
| 24 | erm But he seems to have played things rather cool later on , he disappears at the beginning of the war but comes back into Oxford , and then later , actually sits in the Royalist Parliament , 1644 , which he certainly would n't have done if he was still on parliament 's side . |
| 25 | A cat sits in the front door obstinately blocking the path of arriving customers . |
| 26 | He sits in the first pew he comes to and leers at the door every twenty seconds with the frowsiest of sighs . |
| 27 | Intensive NMR studies in collaboration with Kurt Wüthrich have led Walter Gehring ( Biozentrum , Basel ) to conclude that the DNA binding specificity of the homeobox genes he discovered ( which are transcription factors specifying segmental identity in metazoans from insects to humans ) is determined not only by the ‘ recognition helix ’ that sits in the major groove of the DNA , but also by a flexible segment at the amino-terminal end of the homeobox which appears to wrap around the DNA so as to contact the minor groove . |
| 28 | Something about the gondola itself which is , after all , only Venice made manifest in the craft of the shipwright metamorphoses almost everyone who travels in it ; especially everyone who sits in the posher seat , the one with its back to the gondolier . |
| 29 | His son sits in the National Assembly for Nawa Shariff 's party . |
| 30 | Thassos sits in the Northern Aegean like a soupbowl on a plate — the mountains rise steeply from a narrow coastal plain , gradually decreasing in height the closer you get to the centre . |