Example sentences of "sitting up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah , they got , they 've got a massive Bugs Bunny sitting up over the sweet counter as you go in |
| 2 | She loved sitting up with the children until long past bedtime , playing silly games or just holding them in her arms and carrying on a conversation at their absurd level . |
| 3 | Marie 's sitting up on the bed with a packet of fags . |
| 4 | Sitting up on the rail , he spat down at Trent , then tilted his head back and yapped like a Pekinese . |
| 5 | She wished there was a window in front , so she could see Midnight sitting up on the driver 's seat beside Hawkins . |
| 6 | ‘ Yes I do , ’ Artemis replied , having spotted her stepmother , sitting up on the stone balustrade , slowly swinging her shapely legs and smoking a cigarette . |
| 7 | You can usually count on finding old Bill Waddy sitting up at the bar here , and old Gareth Holmroyd hovering about somewhere . ’ |
| 8 | I sort of nodded into a half-sleep sitting up at the counter . |
| 9 | Hasan was sitting up at the table , eating a large slice of toast . |
| 10 | Sitting up at the bar was Ingrid and the little dancer — two pretty girls , just what he needed . |
| 11 | You 're supposed to be sitting up at the table . |
| 12 | In the hospital , sitting up for the first time in several days , he had watched the doctor anointing an old man who would have made a superb St Jerome : ‘ a thin , long , sinewy brown wrinkled body with such very distinct and expressive joints that it makes one melancholy not to be able to have him for a model . ’ |
| 13 | Sitting up in the cold morning light we could have been sprayed by a fine grey snow as we slept — dust from the Kalahari which I can still smell in my clothes . |
| 14 | But sitting up in the bedroom looking down towards the river , she was asking herself more often of late whether meat and clothing were all there was to life . |
| 15 | I also visited the Sadlers Wells Ballet , sitting up in the gallery with friends for one shilling and sixpence in old money and watching the Corps open up before us like the flowers whose waltz they were dancing , and that talented new ballerina Miss Margot Fonteyn taking her first curtain calls . |
| 16 | Stephen took the stairs two at a time and threw open the bedroom door to see Tamar , sitting up in the big fourposter bed , nursing their son . |
| 17 | He consumed a bottle of Frascati and smoked two cigarettes , then turned green , almost passed out , and fell asleep sitting up in the chair . |
| 18 | Zvi Lipsky , the Burial Society Treasurer , had spent the whole afternoon trying to rid his mind of the annoyance of Arnold Wine 's advertisement in that morning 's Cork Examiner and now there was Wine himself , as bold as brass , sitting up in the front seats if you please , instead of at the back where he should be . |
| 19 | It was a warm wind , though , and there was no real hardship in sitting up in the cockpit reading hornblower by the binnacle light as giant flames licked the night sky . |
| 20 | It happened that the dog was silenced just as her last remark emerged , and over his body , flattened now to the sheet where he lay panting , the old woman sitting up in the bed flashed her a look . |
| 21 | Here he is sitting up in the marital bed , his jaw ruggedly clenched on his unlit pipe . |