Example sentences of "was sit [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , the people were so impressed they , you could have heard a pin drop in that hall , and he really in our Welsh way he put it over proper you know and erm the Chairman made a quite a nice remark in the end he said , Now he said we must remember these two fellows here , I said , They are Welsh and they speak Welsh as their first language they do n't speak it for fancy they use it every day and he said I think they 've done exceedingly well er to come down here and give us the Because what happen I was sit in the front row and somebody asked me a question and he said , Perhaps er Dafydd there can answer . |
| 2 | Sadly their honeymoon was a short one as Killigrew had , so , he sorrowfully informed his new bride , to hasten to Exeter , where he was to sit on the bench in the City 's courts . |
| 3 | Their contact with war was to sit in the dining room of the Hay Adams Hotel , or the Petroleum Club in Dallas , or by their own swimming pools , sipping on cocktails and going through lists of guns and launchers and grenades . |
| 4 | Stella 's main job was to sit in the prompt corner with the book . |
| 5 | I could n't kick a door if I was sat on the bloody latch so I had to do something else . ’ |
| 6 | I was sat on the couch and when I woke up , ten to three . |
| 7 | Swear when he was sat at the top of the stairs shivering he looked so thin . |
| 8 | ‘ I was in this lesson and two or three of my mates were messing about , and I was sat across the other side of the classroom and someone chucked a piece of chalk at the teacher and then started shouting his mouth off . |
| 9 | And the Monster was sat in the bucket , filling the bucket with its bloated pink body , its great bulging legs hanging over the edge . |
| 10 | I heard an amazing comment when I was sat in the North East corner of Elland Road for the Crewe game . |
| 11 | Well not not when he got pulled but he I was sat in the backseat when he was pissy . |
| 12 | And my mum , my mum was sat in The Weathers with me and I 'd talked to her and everything and I did n't even know that that |
| 13 | why I , I wanted to go around with you , but I wanted you , what I was thinking of when I was sat in the car that you , when you come back you could take me round when you 've been round |
| 14 | It was sat behind the settee in a corner . |
| 15 | He asked the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff if he should pull out the Ariadne which they knew , of course , was sitting over the crashed plane . |
| 16 | For all Dougal knew he was sitting opposite the murderer . |
| 17 | One night Kit stumbled by , when Ariel was sitting outside the cabin , with the baby sleeping near her in the small hammock she had rigged up for him . |
| 18 | Sid was sitting under the apple tree next to our slit trench as I approached . |
| 19 | ‘ By 6pm Mrs Kinnock was sitting under the table assisting at least two journalists who were the worse for wear to place calls to London on their mobile phones . ’ |
| 20 | I was sitting between the principal of a college for policewomen and a rather saucy lady novelist . ’ |
| 21 | When , a little later on , as she was sitting beside the now sleeping child , she heard Liza come into the house , Harriet did not go downstairs but waited until her daughter stood in the doorway of the bedroom , wild-eyed and trembling . |
| 22 | He was sitting beside the river watching dead leaves floating downstream when he noticed that one leaf had suddenly started to behave very peculiarly — it was floating upstream . |
| 23 | She was sitting beside the Raeburn , knitting . |
| 24 | I was sitting beside the window . |
| 25 | That was a hint to Chris , who was sitting beside the basket that had been packed by Molly Fletcher . |
| 26 | He took the list , that list right there , and he went like this with it — I was sitting across the table — and he said , ‘ For someone who has seen so much war as you have , North , you should understand that I want to end the war on terms that are acceptable to Iran . |
| 27 | Miss Honey looked at the plain plump person with the smug suet-pudding face who was sitting across the room . |
| 28 | A man was sitting on the ground outside his house . |
| 29 | Also the dog was sitting on the carpet on Carla 's bare feet . |
| 30 | John was sitting on the floor in a tangle of blankets . |