Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] sit [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cut a slice off the bottom of each pear to enable them to sit in a dish without falling over , and place in an ovenproof dish well spaced out . |
| 2 | They invited them to sit at a table and were joined by an unusually tall , thin man who was extraordinarily blonde for his age which was thirty to thirtyfive . |
| 3 | 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 |
| 4 | She found her sitting on a bench beneath a stark tree in the college grounds , in a snowy landscape . |
| 5 | He found him sitting on a bunk , holding a bottle of milk in one hand and cup of gin in the other . |
| 6 | He eventually found it sitting on a wall outside a house . |
| 7 | He took their cloaks and told them to sit on a bench which he pushed towards the heat of the fire . |
| 8 | I write about Agnes , I try to imagine her , I let her sit on a bench in the sauna , walk around Paris , leaf through a magazine , talk with her husband , but the thing that started it all , the gesture of a woman waving to a lifeguard by the side of a pool , it must seem as if I had forgotten that . |
| 9 | Old school photo graphs show him sitting like a wise and attentive owl , surrounded by his charges . |
| 10 | I had n't seen her sitting on a bench not far from the spot . |
| 11 | This showed him sitting at a desk , pencil in hand : his mother 's vision of what school should be about . |
| 12 | And in the fourth year I tend to do them an evaluation sheet , where I write down lots of questions about the project they have just done , and maybe get them to sit for a double lesson and write about the things they experienced and found out … |
| 13 | My mother , having strict ideas about morality , would never allow me to go to balere in the evenings , so we spent them sitting on a wall near our house , usually with other friends . |
| 14 | So that is why , being a good boy scouts , and girl guides that you are you are gon na put things in the car so that you 're , you are prepared for wet weather , or cold weather erm , such as an old blanket or something to sit on er , because we like you to sit upon a bank as far away from the traffic as possible |
| 15 | When you stayed away from me , I would try in vain to will you back beside me : then , long after the dinner I waited for you to share but had to eat alone , I would wander out into the stony streets , hoping to bump into you , to glimpse you sitting in a bar or on a park bench : |
| 16 | Wardens find him sitting in a fake oak tree beside the replica of a female tawny owl . |
| 17 | I got him to sit as a model . |
| 18 | After the girls had gone I sat for a little time , thinking . |
| 19 | We have a witness , however , who is certain that she saw you sitting in a window alcove at the end of the gallery much later on , perhaps as late as midnight . ’ |
| 20 | As she rounded the gates of the school she saw him sitting on a low wall , his little legs dangling , swinging backwards and forwards . |
| 21 | Without permission , I opened the door and saw him sitting on a chair , guarded by a partisan . |
| 22 | fish to me was my mother making me sit at a |
| 23 | I thought I 'd write to a few comedians to see if I could get them to sit for a portrait , to get a few shots together for my portfolio , and then , suddenly , this snowball seemed to start rolling … |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | And he 's sent me to sit with a boy ! |
| 26 | What would you actually do then , you said you sat round a table , you told me about that , the table with the white cloth . |
| 27 | When he was semi-retired he sat on a chair in the corner of the saloon , gossiping away to his customers . |
| 28 | They had photographed her sitting on a kitchen stool in a white passage , with her back against a long stretch of wall , like someone at a dance . |
| 29 | ‘ Do n't look so dismayed , ’ begged Mrs Alderley , taking Theda 's hand and obliging her to sit on an elegant Sheraton sofa . |