Example sentences of "he sit [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Buck goes to a diner , he sits at a table opposite a creepy woman with a nervous tic who keeps running a grey rubber mouse over her face . |
| 2 | There he sits at a table , a confident and debonaire man-about-town , a bachelor with even a touch of the dandy about him . |
| 3 | He sits on a bar stool in the centre of a circle of friendly faces , talking amiably . |
| 4 | He sits on a very smoky-looking cloud and he laughs and laughs at the sight of copulation . |
| 5 | He sits on a low wall and waits . |
| 6 | He sits on a bed , in the gloom , looking more wretched than ever . |
| 7 | He sits on a bench in his braces , |
| 8 | Andy Gray , on Sky , said that he sits on a panel to decide if a goal is an OG or not … and can then take goals off players . |
| 9 | Now he sits on a therapy group helping the same types of people he used to lock up . |
| 10 | He has a few modish novels , a collection of articles by Paul Bordieu , a copy of the New York Review and some scripts lying on the table in front of the sofa where he sits with a bottle of Yorre — never Perrier — and an ice bucket of champagne , sacramental , in front of him to greet the actresses as they are shown in . |
| 11 | As well as being a Cabinet Minister and Speaker of the House of Lords he sits as a judge , presiding over the Law Lords in the Appellate Committee when time allows . |
| 12 | The right hon. and learned Gentleman sits in court and passes sentence himself , so he has seen the issue both from these Benches and from the Bench he adorns when he sits as a recorder . |
| 13 | He sits as a judge in the House of Lords , where he also acts as Speaker ; he is a cabinet minister and advises on constitutional issues ; and his department , established in 1885 , is our nearest approach to a Ministry of Justice and has responsibility for many aspects of the legal system . |
| 14 | He sits in a Second Empire armchair , a curling pipe in one side of his mouth , the other side opening and closing every few moments , like a fish breaking the surface , to let the smoke out , and listen expressionlessly while Howard explains his ideas for the script . |
| 15 | Now , the elderly man who endured a waiter 's dirty fingers in his lemonade at Montrose could hardly have been more famous or respected , and there he sits in a dirty inn , happy to enjoy a little quiet , and quite at ease to do so , even in the company of one of the most garrulous men in the realm whose nature abhorred a conversational vacuum ; Johnson even expressed a simple delight in being thought as silent as a ghost . |
| 16 | Your family doctor may know one end of a thyroid gland from another-with any luck — but no especial wisdom is granted him because he sits in a surgery seeing one coughing person after another all day ; peering into ears and wombs and hearing tales of insomnia and worms . |
| 17 | He sits by a globe with his back to the police station , looking south towards the Cabo de Hornos Hotel , towards the low hills of Tierra del Fuego and the unseen coast of the distant Antarctic . |
| 18 | He sits behind a desk and you stand a few feet away with a screw facing you really close on either side . |
| 19 | He sits behind a half screen , perusing the faces of customers as they amble away , their arms full of cans for the road . |
| 20 | David Tory , the president of the Open Software Foundation , has added another directorship to his CV , joining the board of directors at Service Systems International Ltd where he sits alongside an old colleague , chairman of the board Sam Goodner . |
| 21 | Should he sit on a select committee or will the work go unnoticed ? |
| 22 | Climbing aboard , he sat beside a man with three pairs of spectacles around his neck . |
| 23 | He sat astride a ladder-backed wooden chair , his legs splayed out in front of him . |
| 24 | He sat for a while without speaking , apparently debating how many of his thoughts to share . |
| 25 | When he came back in the evening he sat for a long time gazing out across the V-shaped valley leading south . |
| 26 | Then he sat for a while on the aisle stand which was a box covering the auto-pilot , where he was able to look out through the nose . |
| 27 | And he sat for a long time in a melancholy reverie as the ants continued to drift down , thinking of the futility of all endeavour . |
| 28 | He sat for a moment longer , staring across the garden and then , still without speaking , he bent and kissed her . |
| 29 | He sat as a Unionist councillor and , when the Unionist Party became dominated by powersharers , he moved to Vanguard , then to Baird 's United Ulster Unionist Party , and only switched to Paisley 's Democratic Unionist Party after the demise of the UUUP . |
| 30 | When arrangements were made in the summer of 1278 to establish two permanent circuits of the general eyre he was one of the justices appointed to the ‘ northern ’ circuit and he sat as a junior justice in every eyre of that circuit down to 1288 . |