Example sentences of "sit by [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't think you 'll be in the slightest danger of being knifed as you practise your bedside-manner sitting by a semi-conscious young woman in an intensive care unit . ’ |
| 2 | Beuno was sitting by a deep pool which the flatness of the ground had permitted the stream to form . |
| 3 | Sitting by a potted palm that looked like a fugitive from the desert , she ate flaky rolls spread with black cherry jam , and drank two cups of coffee before setting forth . |
| 4 | There had been a storm the previous day and she could still see white horses in the bay from where she was sitting by a south-facing window . |
| 5 | In a sense , when running a household becomes a drudgery , then it is like sitting by a cold , empty hearth with no fire . |
| 6 | Andrew says : ‘ There you are , sitting by a lovely lake . |
| 7 | The charity shop 's not really a proper shop — it ai n't smart or none of that , and there 's just a couple of old women sitting by an electric fire and helping out customers when they want to try on clothes and that . |
| 8 | Last Monday night , in a mood of deep depression , I was sitting by an open window , praying for a little peace and happiness in my dark life . |
| 9 | This day , I was sitting by an old lady , almost as old as I am now , I suppose . |
| 10 | She was sitting by the shieling door as they approached . |
| 11 | Jane had spent the afternoon sitting by the paddling pool , with her feet in the water to ease the pain . |
| 12 | She picked her way gently down to the door , nodded pleasantly to Farquhar and bent under the lintel , to find her husband sitting by the tiny fireplace , watching Marion turn a hare on a spit over it . |
| 13 | From where he was sitting by the narrow little window he had a view of the meagre garden and beyond it , in the distance , a huge white bull in a field of white heifers . |
| 14 | Only the orphan until the final chapter , when even she would sit by a warm fire , rescued at last from a cruel world and adult depredations by the long-lost loving parent who waits at the end of every unhappy child 's rainbow . |
| 15 | He would sit by the little fire he had built underneath it , watching the drops of spirit trickle out of the tubes into bottles partially filled with apricot jam . |
| 16 | I 'd go to the SS Great Britain and sit by the breezy river , and I 'd compose my stupid self and compose my story so that I could tell lies confidently instead of giving myself away . |
| 17 | He sat by a great semi-circular window which looked out into darkness pierced at regular intervals by the beam of the lighthouse . |
| 18 | He had shown inspiration coming from Ulmo to Tuor , as the hero sat by a trickling stream , both in The Silmarillion ( p. 238 ) , and in ‘ Of Tuor and his Coming to Gondolin' ( written c . |
| 19 | Wycliffe took the sergeant to lunch at his hotel and they sat by the great window overlooking the sea , which still sparkled in the sun . |
| 20 | He was holding her there without duress , pinning her where she sat by the sheer magnetism of his physical presence . |
| 21 | Mr Trotter sat by the roaring fire , reading his science magazine when suddenly , his peace was shattered by screaming coming from outside . |
| 22 | Nathan waited patiently for the remissions which made it possible for the ruined mind to function for a time ; he sat by the sick man , who by now was almost blind ; the paralysis was , after all , general . |
| 23 | Vaguely disappointed , the detective sat by the steamed-up window , attracting the occasional glance from the groups of sullen men at the Formica tables , his nose prickling with pleasure at the smell of frying bacon . |