Example sentences of "sit on " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the last few years I have sat on the sidelines watching bolt-protected climbing mushrooming throughout the USA , Europe and , not least , Britain : in quarries , but also , let's be completely truthful , on natural crags . |
| 2 | The majority had no wish to stop work , particularly after the great strides which had been made in recent months , but they were n't going to be sat on either . |
| 3 | She 'd sat on the stubby grass , cut short as the back of a soldier 's head . |
| 4 | ‘ Once she was a hit , we could have sat on the first contract and made more money from her . |
| 5 | The door of the grocer 's shop was flung open with a ‘ crash ’ and a small rotund figure , angry as a bee that has sat on its own sting , buzzed past the rubber merchant and accosted the sedan-chair operator . |
| 6 | Attlee and Ernest Bevin , the Foreign Secretary , had sat on the key Coalition Cabinet committees on post-war reconstruction at home and overseas . |
| 7 | I have sat on the opposite bank of a river to where a match was being fished and seen barbel breaking line time after time , and the reaction has always been the same : the tying on of a hook of the same size to the same line that barbel had already treated with the contempt it deserved . |
| 8 | Myles had sat on the edge of the chair with his hands clasped between his knees , listening to the legal measured tones , telling himself , I 'm not going to get it , I 'm not going to get it . |
| 9 | They told what an excellent trip it had been and how they had sat on a platform in the sunshine halfway across to eat their sandwiches with not another boat in sight . |
| 10 | ‘ Why could n't he have sat on the trolley like he always does ? ’ her husband said . |
| 11 | He told us terrible tales of people being crushed in crowds , of school finances being wasted on unnecessary floor cleaning bills and of ‘ softies ’ who needed seats when there was a perfectly good floor to sit on ( all the teachers were sat on chairs around the edge of the sports hall at this point , but I do n't think they took it personally ) . |
| 12 | Some ideas are as follows : the first team to have everyone sat on the floor , first team to have everyone standing on one leg . |
| 13 | At 507x464x362mm and 40lbs weight , the DSP 's extension cab is relatively painless to cart around ; plus , it 's designed to have the combo sat on top of it . |
| 14 | He told inmates at Pentonville Prison , London : ‘ I have never sat on such a hard chair in my life . ’ |
| 15 | Mrs Reveley said : ‘ Nobody else has ever sat on the horse over jumps . |
| 16 | I 'd sat on my palliasse writing notes , watching Selma plait her hair , trying to decide when to get up and walk down the inlet far enough to be out of sight in order to go to the loo . |
| 17 | I 've sat on the beach |
| 18 | He had thought of Harry all the way out of Rome to Leonardo da Vinci , all the time that he had stood in the check-in line , all the time he had sat on the Alitalia , all the time he had stood at Customs and Immigration at Athens International , all the time in the taxi out to the Kifisia suburb . |
| 19 | In the past he has sat on the central committee and was chairman of the London branch . |
| 20 | He pulls a face as if he 's just sat on a chicken , as Peter Cook has just asked him what 's the most boring job he 's ever had . |
| 21 | I 've been to the natural childbirth classes in Muswell Hill , I 've sat on sag-bags and chanted ‘ Ommmmmm ’ with the best of them . |
| 22 | Had she done so she would not have said a word , would not have looked a word , would simply have sat on the bed and talked to Tina for ten minutes instead of the two of them sitting opposite each other in armchairs . |
| 23 | Derby was a weak man whose subservience could usually be taken for granted ( in Haig 's words he was like " the feather pillow [ who ] bears the marks of the last person who has sat on him " ) , but he was very conscious of his position in the party . |
| 24 | There may be a booklet on the subject , a special expert in the technical department who has sat on the relevant government fact-finding commission or a market research survey giving the latest market trends , any of which would help the journalists far more than the standard handouts . |
| 25 | No shrewder opportunist had sat on the English throne , but his opportunism was harnessed to some guiding principles . |
| 26 | While the Doctor stalked about the room , or fiddled with the door , or argued with the guards , the three others had sat on the floor and exchanged their stories . |
| 27 | That the little girl who had sat on her granny 's knee and smiled and laughed , would grow up to give herself to anyone and everyone who asked her ? |
| 28 | But as anyone who has sat on an equal opportunities working party will tell you , it is one thing to formulate policies and quite another to implement them . |
| 29 | Mr and Mrs Harper had sat in their respective armchairs , Marge had sat on a red leather pouffe and she , Steve and Cliff had occupied the two-seater settee of the three-piece suite . |
| 30 | At last a pick-up truck came bumping up the track , containing Giovanna 's fat and apparently unsatisfactory husband and a detachment of villagers , including the old men , Molly was sure , who had sat on the wall by the petrol pumps mocking her . |