Example sentences of "sitting [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bobby Patsy , sitting off the top of the handicap , could claim the trophy with a repeat of her earlier round performance . |
| 2 | Lihir Island , off the west coast of New Ireland ( itself sitting off the north coast of Papua New Guinea ) is said to have the world 's largest gold deposit — though as it sits inside a volcano the deeper the miners dig , the hotter they get . |
| 3 | Sitting between the driver and the sergeant , she gritted her teeth as her bones were pounded by every pothole in Port-au-Prince . |
| 4 | I was sitting between the principal of a college for policewomen and a rather saucy lady novelist . ’ |
| 5 | Indeed , sitting through the replay it was difficult to gauge whether it was live or not . |
| 6 | I am sitting opposite the Baroness — who was acquitted in August 1989 of the murder of her ex-husband Simon Dale , and in April this year sentenced to seven years imprisonment for forging the will of her elderly aunt , Lady Illingworth , and for stealing more than £500,000 from her — in the visitors ' room at Askham Grange prison , outside York . |
| 7 | For all Dougal knew he was sitting opposite the murderer . |
| 8 | There was this guy sitting behind the desk with a guitar , practising his flamenco scales . |
| 9 | It was so seldom that Aggie heard herself addressed by her surname that she turned and looked at the nun , but the woman 's eyelids were lowered as if in shame ; then she inclined her head towards the woman sitting behind the desk before turning and closing the door quietly behind her . |
| 10 | Mahmoud , sitting behind the Chief 's desk to better express the awful power of the state , had them brought in . |
| 11 | I was sitting behind the sofa playing with a kind of milk lorry I had . |
| 12 | He was sitting behind the tea tray , with its vast load of silver , reading Horse and Hound — Twomey came in to take the tea tray away , and with it the smaller table which held the dish of scones , the plate of sandwiches ( Gentleman 's Relish ) , the fruit cake and the plain sponge . |
| 13 | The Trunchbull was sitting behind the teacher 's table staring with a mixture of horror and fascination at the newt wriggling in the glass . |
| 14 | A young man in his twenties , with short cropped hair and glasses was sitting behind the netting talking to him . |
| 15 | Sitting behind the wheel of the Lagonda , he tried to understand why the old man had discouraged him . |
| 16 | She only realised then that she was sitting behind the wheel and her flushed face flushed even further as she moved across with great difficulty . |
| 17 | A person sitting behind the steering wheel being pushed by people outside the vehicle , if he is acting in conjunction with those people . |
| 18 | A learner driver sitting behind the steering wheel is a driver even though the qualified driver has control of the vehicle as well and could also be said to be driving . |
| 19 | They were crouching and sitting behind the hessian screens in the typing-pool . |
| 20 | I was sitting near the telephone . |
| 21 | Sitting near the window , with its view of the fire escape , smoking a joint he 'd bought in an amusement arcade , he wrote in a notebook about visiting Spanish towns , and the beaches , then about the few days in London because his imagination ran out on Spain with the end of the brochure about flamenco dancing and bullfights , and because what he was doing was more immediate . |
| 22 | She was sitting near the phone and she misses nothing . ’ |
| 23 | Winifred said she was well and looked at Stephanie , sitting near the kitchen . |
| 24 | Mummy the dog 's sitting near the table . |
| 25 | One boy , sitting near the front , leant forward slightly if the reader 's voice volume needed raising and leant back slightly if it was too loud . |
| 26 | Sometimes , when he had been sitting near the side of the boat , an ill-considered back cast sent him flying into the water ; and often it was a close run thing before I could get the landing net under his sodden frame . |
| 27 | The young squire sitting against the buttress , keeled slowly over and sprawled face down on the pavers . |
| 28 | Zambia was sitting against the counter , talking with Sindy . |
| 29 | She tickled him briefly , making him fold sitting into the cot . |
| 30 | When she came back he was sitting with the cat curled up on his knees . |