Example sentences of "you sit [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you sit on a chair next to a mirror , without the cosmetic benefits of tights of course , you will see the skin texture clearly . |
| 2 | If you sit on a cliff edge on Sea-lion Island to enjoy your pack lunch , as likely as not you will be joined by one or more of these amusing birds . |
| 3 | ‘ April , make sure you sit on a blanket . ’ |
| 4 | A stream flows nearby , bubbling and gurgling , and you sit beneath a large , shady tree . |
| 5 | ‘ You sit like a pair of toads , ’ said Franca . |
| 6 | You sit in a rocking chair but ca n't make it go . |
| 7 | Mm , I can do it , on a couple of days when Tel 's at work , you sit in a box , on a chair |
| 8 | So that is why , being a good boy scouts , and girl guides that you are you are gon na put things in the car so that you 're , you are prepared for wet weather , or cold weather erm , such as an old blanket or something to sit on er , because we like you to sit upon a bank as far away from the traffic as possible |
| 9 | When you stayed away from me , I would try in vain to will you back beside me : then , long after the dinner I waited for you to share but had to eat alone , I would wander out into the stony streets , hoping to bump into you , to glimpse you sitting in a bar or on a park bench : |
| 10 | We have a witness , however , who is certain that she saw you sitting in a window alcove at the end of the gallery much later on , perhaps as late as midnight . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ You sat on a low step , Modigliani , your cries were those of a stormy petrel … ‘ , wrote Ehrenburg in a poem written early in 1915 . |
| 12 | If you sat with a girl in rows A to F , you 'd just met . |
| 13 | One of the things that some chaps found amusing when they went to the " heads " ( the head is what the Navy calls the loo ) , you sat in a long row and a great flush of water ran right through a row of 20 or 30 . |
| 14 | Great-aunts were sometimes significant : a Scots farmer 's old sister , ‘ very straightlaced … you sat like a mouse ; ’ or the great-aunt of a Portsmouth docker 's daughter , ‘ an old , old lady ’ , who liked to celebrate receiving her weekly pension — ‘ Every weekend , pension day , she had a wee brown jug and she used to send me up the beer shop to get half pint o'stout . |
| 15 | What would you actually do then , you said you sat round a table , you told me about that , the table with the white cloth . |