Example sentences of "people sit [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This suggests that you should sit at arms length from your monitor and should n't site desks so that people sit near the back of monitors . |
| 2 | Against this background of craters and devastated buildings people sit in the sun at cafes open again for a town which has nothing else to do but drink coffee and wait for the future . |
| 3 | Yes we were told they 're going to be trees like that because they 've had a lot of trouble with pigeons roosting in the erm the mature trees and it 's impossible for people to sit on the benches underneath cos of er pigeon mess . |
| 4 | Some of the people sitting at the big table did not even raise their eyes . |
| 5 | From the corner where she squatted on a stool , she watched Midnight quietly serving the six people sitting at the long table ; n the centre of the room and , in spite of her hunger , was impressed by the careful , unobtrusive way he worked — standing always on the left of each person , never knocking against them or even brushing the backs of their tall chairs . |
| 6 | ‘ Although there are several people sitting on the FISA Commission whom I like and respect , none of them has ever done any serious motor racing , ’ he warned . |
| 7 | There was already a crowd of people sitting on the grass outside the hospital . |
| 8 | Too many people sitting on the fence , exercising nothing but their asses . |
| 9 | Now that does n't really work here because we have a policy that we do n't have notices , you may have noticed already , we do n't have notices saying do n't and we do n't object to people sitting on the furniture , handling this and that , doing what they like . |
| 10 | No one entered Harry Short 's house without an invitation and to find Kelly Connor of all people sitting across the breakfast table was like a practical joke in very poor taste . |
| 11 | But most of the 8,000 people sitting in the glass house are tourists drawn by Mr Schuller 's fame ( he is seen by about 1.3m American households each Sunday ) and the eye-popping spectacle of the cathedral designed by Mr Philip Johnson . |
| 12 | But when convoys of vehicles arrived at the sites to start their planned test drilling in August 1986 they met a blockade of people sitting in the road . |
| 13 | I had noted the Clifton Suspension Bridge , a few jolly people sitting in the garden , a row of salads in the kitchen — a good photo can make a sprouting alfalfa seed look nouvelle cuisine — and the Prince of Wales signing the visitors ' book . |
| 14 | There 's an audience of people sitting in the room in front of me , and they 're singing , and they 're in total darkness too . |
| 15 | well if there 's , if there 's not many people sitting in the day room , perhaps we can pinch one , all the stools seem to be taken there are n't many spare in there , can we pinch a couple of chairs please ? |
| 16 | In the Shadow Cabinet and on the National Executive , Smith now has people who recognise their real opponents are the Tory Party , not the people sitting around the same table . |
| 17 | A great many people sat at the feet of the statues or stood about in groups near by . |
| 18 | Children were playing on the green , a wet labrador that had been swimming in the beck was drying out by the village cross , and there was just room amongst the people sat at the table outside the pub for one man and his dog . |
| 19 | Face the Media are present here , the two people sat at the front . |
| 20 | In front of them stood a microphone on a stand , and then several rows of school chairs filling about a third of the area , though most people sat on the ground . |
| 21 | A few people sat on the floor ( no chairs in the drama studio ) and jumped straight to their feet again as an outbreak of jeering laughter told them that they 'd got it wrong . |
| 22 | Despite the ‘ fine cast of characters … assembled for a morality play , even a tragedy , that once promised to rival the Watergate scandal ’ , only twelve people sat in the public seats . |
| 23 | And then you had twenty people , well , over twenty people sat in the window , and they all had bar meals , and they 'd all been to do with this run , you know , there 's a big run through Twickenham on a Sunday morning , |
| 24 | The following seven people sat around the table — both Gordons , that is , Professor Thomas and the host Sir Alexander ; Provost Jopp , he of the conferring ; Professor Ross and Professor Dunbar ; Boswell and Johnson . |
| 25 | People sat at all the tables in the bar , and some tables , there was like two lots of people sat around the same table , sharing a table . |