Example sentences of "sit with a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The müsellim would have no power to interfere with the right of the Serbs to collect taxes and , in cases where Christian subjects were being judged in the courts , the müsellim would have to sit with a Serbian knez . |
| 2 | Sit with a right-wing , black-bashing , neo-fascist in a little pub in that great , arid and beautiful semi-desert , the Karoo , a kind of South African outback , and you will be told loudly and often that the blacks are getting ready to rise . |
| 3 | Now we all know because we 're print buyers to a larger or greater degree but they 're clients they over-estimate they add about twenty five per cent more on than they need and you have to send them back to sharpen their pencils several times before you 've seen the estimate , they of course know that all print buyers are idiots who keep forgetting all the important things and do n't give them half the information they need like the weight of paper or the fact that there 's to be a pocket at the back so , I think if we got the man I think if we maybe started off with H M S O the print buyer which is more akin to what we are and say well you know these are the problems I 've got I 'm sitting with a six million pound budget buying for the whole of the government of Scotland and I have problems and these are the problems that I have , then we get to the wee man from who says now wait a minute boys I get the rubbish that you send out , that was the message and let's make it funny but slightly aggressive let's highlight the real problems because that 's what it 's about , we 're not here for a nice night we 're here to learn |
| 4 | Jenny sat with a contented smile on her face during this interchange while mother repressed her irritation and anger with her husband 's remarks . |
| 5 | She sat with a lame leg tucked under her . |
| 6 | He 'd been shown to the interview room where Scott sat with a uniformed officer close by the door . |
| 7 | He sat with a small radar screen in front of him , writing up the small strips that are used by controllers all over the world , strips that have all the different aircraft information on them . |
| 8 | Shelley found tears in her own eyes , as Constance sat with a beatific look on her face , and young Pablo , looking neat and dapper in his best clothes , stood smiling at the altar , waiting for his childhood sweetheart to join him . |
| 9 | Colonel Bauer , a German staff officer , wrote : ‘ He sat with a pallid face gazing at the map , dead to all feeling , a broken man . ’ |