Example sentences of "him sit [prep] a " in BNC.

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1 I got him to sit as a model .
2 Following BILL HICKS ' recent ‘ it does n't matter who you vote for , the government always gets it ’ rant against the American presidential campaign in these pages , we invited him to sit in a room on election night with STEPHEN DALTON and explain why he 's mellowed to the idea of Clinton
3 This showed him sitting at a desk , pencil in hand : his mother 's vision of what school should be about .
4 As she rounded the gates of the school she saw him sitting on a low wall , his little legs dangling , swinging backwards and forwards .
5 They used to giggle and splutter when they saw the old man , thinking of him sitting on a toadstool in the moonlight .
6 Without permission , I opened the door and saw him sitting on a chair , guarded by a partisan .
7 He found him sitting on a bunk , holding a bottle of milk in one hand and cup of gin in the other .
8 Old school photo graphs show him sitting like a wise and attentive owl , surrounded by his charges .
9 Wardens find him sitting in a fake oak tree beside the replica of a female tawny owl .
10 At the Huntingdonshire Eyre in 1255 , for example , Norman Sampson , a riding forester , was convicted of having extorted money from a man in his bailiwick by making him sit upon a harrow .
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