Example sentences of "sit in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | So for a full week he had sat in the outer office , and waited . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | They might have sat in the same prison cell as he was sitting in now . |
| 6 | It was the same husky voice that Pascoe had heard when he 'd sat in the empty house at the table laid for one . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 4 As soon as s/he sits in the hot seat , this person must become the chosen character . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | A cat sits in the front door obstinately blocking the path of arriving customers . |
| 11 | He sits in the first pew he comes to and leers at the door every twenty seconds with the frowsiest of sighs . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | His son sits in the National Assembly for Nawa Shariff 's party . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Claire sits in the open window of John 's kitchen , a cup of jasmine tea warming her hands . |
| 17 | Oh , oh , well he 's still reversing , he 's waving his arm about for everyone to overtake him but , he still sits in the same position oh dear |
| 18 | But it is of concern and I do hope that in the next forthcoming er house er when the the house sits in the forthcoming rounds , that they will be mindful of the representations which have been made nationally and that the Police service and the proposals contained , particularly in the Police bill , will not be fully implemented in the way that they 're currently proposed on the white paper today . |
| 19 | The other valve sits in the thick one like a lid , and the whole animal is curved so that the margins of the valves were kept clear of the sediment . |
| 20 | Eighteen East German delegates were to sit in the European Parliament pending direct elections . |
| 21 | Her children Peter , 15 , and 11-year-old Zara are expected to sit in the front pew for the short service . |
| 22 | The Burrows children were expected to be examples to the other youngsters in the corps , and had to sit in the front seats of any hall they attended , where Captain Burrows could keep his eagle eye on them . |
| 23 | Dana sulked because Roman had thwarted her plan to sit in the front passenger seat , and Claudia , conscious of her twin 's glowering presence , could n't find anything to say . |
| 24 | Drifting outside to sit in the cooler evening air , Ace , Benny and Petion chatted together . |
| 25 | Stella 's main job was to sit in the prompt corner with the book . |
| 26 | On such a beautiful day it seems sad to sit in the dank , scruffy room . |
| 27 | The simplest way to start is to encourage the dog to sit in the required position , even when there is no one at the door . |
| 28 | They have to sit in the one room , wearing extra jumpers , watching television . |
| 29 | This 100 ( or such lesser number as existed at any time ) were to elect 28 of their number to sit in the new House . |
| 30 | A government communiqué was also reported to have ruled out the possibility of FARC and ELN delegates being allowed to sit in the new Constituent Assembly to be elected in December . |