Example sentences of "sit on the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd sat on the stubby grass , cut short as the back of a soldier 's head . |
| 2 | Attlee and Ernest Bevin , the Foreign Secretary , had sat on the key Coalition Cabinet committees on post-war reconstruction at home and overseas . |
| 3 | There may be a booklet on the subject , a special expert in the technical department who has sat on the relevant government fact-finding commission or a market research survey giving the latest market trends , any of which would help the journalists far more than the standard handouts . |
| 4 | ‘ Once she was a hit , we could have sat on the first contract and made more money from her . |
| 5 | I could n't kick a door if I was sat on the bloody latch so I had to do something else . ’ |
| 6 | In the past he has sat on the central committee and was chairman of the London branch . |
| 7 | So for the past year , I 've sat on the Labour Party Trade Union Review Group , a working party set up in the heat of an election defeat , to defuse a potentially damaging row about the strange phenomenon in the party of Labour . |
| 8 | No shrewder opportunist had sat on the English throne , but his opportunism was harnessed to some guiding principles . |
| 9 | The number of journalists who claim to have sat on the same sofa and had private speech with His Majesty is legion . |
| 10 | I have sat on the opposite bank of a river to where a match was being fished and seen barbel breaking line time after time , and the reaction has always been the same : the tying on of a hook of the same size to the same line that barbel had already treated with the contempt it deserved . |
| 11 | when you realise Jack Duckworth sits on the central committee |
| 12 | Howard sits on the long sofa between them , facing the Rembrandt . |
| 13 | Against the left-hand wall nearest to the camera are three storage shelves ; a lidless unvarnished coffin in the process of construction sits on the middle shelf . |
| 14 | Suggestive landscape descriptions , based on the countryside of Alain-Fournier 's childhood ( near Blois , in Loir-et-Cher ) allowed Minton again to delve into his now well-rehearsed repertoire of landscape devices , though unfortunately his original cover design was replaced by another in which the quintessential motif of a figure disappearing down a deserted lane is reduced to a miserable size and merely sits on the front cover like an enlarged postage stamp . |
| 15 | She sits on the only chair in the room , by the night table . |
| 16 | I now see a certain awkwardness in the way Summerchild sits on the other side of my desk . |
| 17 | And it all sits on the fabled Chariot last . |
| 18 | The Face runs on a shoestring but sits on the same shelf as Vogue and Vanity Fair , the shiny starships of megalomedia , and it is usually better looking , nearly always a better read . |
| 19 | Our faces are ventral , the back of our heads are dorsal ; one sits on the dorsal surface of a horse . |
| 20 | The station sits on the seaward edge of Cape Grim , at 100m altitude . |
| 21 | For 22 years , North Down has been the personal bailliwick of James Kilfedder , the former speaker of the ill-starred Northern Ireland Assembly and an independent Unionist who sits on the Conservative benches in the House of Commons but without the party whip . |
| 22 | Amer Midani , the wealthy Lebanese businessman who sits on the United board , is still favourite to eventually take over the club , and to install Bobby Charlton as chairman . |
| 23 | Like the linker , it sits on the main bed and has a cog wheel and spring at the rear to lock it on to the needlebed . |
| 24 | They countered the threat by inviting only safe theologians — largely Rome-based — to sit on the preparatory commissions . |
| 25 | His wife , more canny than she seemed , had already witnessed huge losses over a scheme to promote detachable shirt cuffs , and so far she had managed to sit on the remaining money . |
| 26 | Delegates attending the session in Torquay were asked to sit on the right-hand side of the room if they were in favour of the motion and on the left if they were against it . |
| 27 | I put two chairs together , sat down on one with Dawn and got my mother to sit on the other chair with the cat . |
| 28 | He handed me a toffee , climbed into his car , beckoned me to sit on the other front seat for a few minutes , and removed the celluloid sidescreen to give us more fresh air . |
| 29 | Gur , Gur and Marshalek ( 1975 ) discuss findings which suggest that people who typically move their eyes in a leftward direction prefer to sit on the right side of a classroom ( looking towards the front ) . |
| 30 | The feeling for the good player who tends to have an aggravating fade with tee shots , is one of turning in the backswing and then almost trying to sit on the right foot until the moment of impact , the club getting there before the body unwinds . |