Example sentences of "and sit [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a relief to me to take up this pen and sit at a table and endeavour to sort out what I feel pressing in upon me and to know that if sense can be made of it you will make it . |
| 2 | Using exactly the same technique , I encouraged her to imagine doing just this and to practise for a further fortnight , after which she was in fact able to go to the local park and sit on a bench watching the children at play . |
| 3 | Go and sit on a mountain . ’ |
| 4 | THE INSPIRALS move down to the Harbour area and sit on a green patch with the sun beating down like it can rarely do in Oldham . |
| 5 | No , I 'm not suggesting you come and sit with a stopwatch , because I think that would distract you . |
| 6 | Well , there 's a certain romance in floating in a warm swimming pool on a cold winter 's night , looking up at the stars and wondering whether to fling oneself down the rapids or go and sit in a Jacuzzi instead . |
| 7 | Every year some of the Culler coats ladies dress up in lifeboat gear , and sit in a row as though they are pulling a lifeboat . |
| 8 | I order a vodka and orange and sit in a corner beneath peeling mauve and silver flock wallpaper . |
| 9 | You need a certain kind of front to breeze in from an alternative reality in the back of a time-travelling Volvo and sit in a Presley City bar , with a two-headed nipper on your lap , complaining to a private dick from the twenty-fifth century that you do n't have time for nonsense . |
| 10 | This argument , that the Scottish party should elect its own leader , raise its own funds , hire and fire its own staff and sit in a Westminster coalition with the English and Welsh Labour Party , is something which acutely interests a few hundred activists , but not many MPs , and one guesses , precious few voters . |
| 11 | The advantages of being able to run baits out to any spot within range of your radio signal are obvious even to an objector and to sit on a reservoir bank as electro-man catches pike on free-lined herrings at 200 yards , whilst my weapon hangs limp in the still air waiting for a stiff breeze has been frustrating . |
| 12 | A transcendent monster is not a monster who has escaped the loch and sits on a hill outside it . |
| 13 | McGrath 's inseparable companion is also a welcome guest and sits on a chair to the manner born with a serviette tucked into his collar . |
| 14 | A broad wheel of small diameter , it is of the overshot , pitch-back type and sits below a ‘ launder ’ , or large iron tank , which accepts water from the ‘ flume ’ , connected with the mill-pond , so that water is ducted on to the top of the wheel , causing it to rotate backwards . |
| 15 | The Divisional Court of the Queen 's Bench Division , which exercises a supervisory capacity over the inferior courts and sits as a court to which an appeal ‘ by way of case stated ’ may be made from the Magistrates ' Court , is bound by the House of Lords , the Court of Appeal and its own previous decisions . |
| 16 | It uses conventional techniques and materials ; is based on traditional imagery ; and sits behind a glass frame . |
| 17 | It accelerates electrons , rather than protons , and sits in a tunnel 27km long . |
| 18 | After sitting in the cockpit , General Scott told Dick : ‘ I 've seen and sat in a lot of P-40s since the war ended . |
| 19 | A young man wearing a yarmulka skullcap and sitting astride a roaring tractor wiped his brow with his arm when I asked for the location of Um Al-Farajh . |
| 20 | A lady with a drained face wrapped in a nylon scarf and sitting at a table near by glanced up with a scowl . |
| 21 | I 'd never heard of work till that moment , and there I was thinking of myself dressed in trousers and sitting at a desk with a ledger . |
| 22 | The band , dressed in evening wear and sitting on a raised dais , were at the far end of the hall . |
| 23 | ‘ And sitting on a wrecked pod that 's going to blow up if it does n't blow away first is just way too safe for me . |
| 24 | Lying in second place and sitting on a possible £3,000 I decided that two practice sessions were needed and on the Tuesday , a week before the match , I had a day off work ( I left Dek in charge of the shop — yet again ) and headed 70 miles down the M.1. to the canal to try to sort it out . |
| 25 | The stereotype of the Mexican peasant , dwarfed by his sombrero and sitting by a cactus should , perhaps , be more realistically presented as listening to his radio set . |
| 26 | Many of the programmes do little to stimulate the mind and sitting in a chair staring at a screen is not too good for the body either . |
| 27 | ‘ No , I wo n't go and sit on a mountain . |
| 28 | I invite her to come and sit at a table with Kurowski and me , but she prefers to remain on duty at the bar . |
| 29 | ‘ Do n't sit there ’ they chorus at an unfortunate guest foolish enough to try and sit in a chair in the drawing-room which was last used by Queen Victoria . |
| 30 | The sa the same applies for pricing virtually to anything else if if you 're going to take the maximum advantage of flying by air you either have to book it well in advance through a package or whatever or whatever or else you 'd have to go along and sit in a bucket shop hoping that somebody 's gon na |