Example sentences of "[pron] was sit [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , the people were so impressed they , you could have heard a pin drop in that hall , and he really in our Welsh way he put it over proper you know and erm the Chairman made a quite a nice remark in the end he said , Now he said we must remember these two fellows here , I said , They are Welsh and they speak Welsh as their first language they do n't speak it for fancy they use it every day and he said I think they 've done exceedingly well er to come down here and give us the Because what happen I was sit in the front row and somebody asked me a question and he said , Perhaps er Dafydd there can answer . |
| 2 | ‘ I was in this lesson and two or three of my mates were messing about , and I was sat across the other side of the classroom and someone chucked a piece of chalk at the teacher and then started shouting his mouth off . |
| 3 | I could n't kick a door if I was sat on the bloody latch so I had to do something else . ’ |
| 4 | I was sat on the couch and when I woke up , ten to three . |
| 5 | I heard an amazing comment when I was sat in the North East corner of Elland Road for the Crewe game . |
| 6 | Well not not when he got pulled but he I was sat in the backseat when he was pissy . |
| 7 | why I , I wanted to go around with you , but I wanted you , what I was thinking of when I was sat in the car that you , when you come back you could take me round when you 've been round |
| 8 | I was sitting beside the window . |
| 9 | I was sitting between the principal of a college for policewomen and a rather saucy lady novelist . ’ |
| 10 | He took the list , that list right there , and he went like this with it — I was sitting across the table — and he said , ‘ For someone who has seen so much war as you have , North , you should understand that I want to end the war on terms that are acceptable to Iran . |
| 11 | I was sitting on the deck , my back exposed to the sun . |
| 12 | I was sitting on the top deck of a London bus when the news travelled from passenger to passenger : ‘ The president of the United States has been shot . ’ |
| 13 | But I was sitting on the sands of Ke Iki at midnight with a fairy-tale princess , a Botticelli Venus whose long blonde tresses reflected golden glints from the fire . |
| 14 | I WAS sitting on the other side of the fence with a vengeance on Friday evening , when I joined a large and motley chorus to sing Hiawatha 's Wedding Feast by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor . |
| 15 | One day I was sitting on the roof with Chola and Mina , shelling wild walnuts for oil . |
| 16 | When my husband came in , bringing the new neighbours with him , I was sitting on the floor , one foot wedged in the lavatory basin , and with the broken seat round my neck ! |
| 17 | I was sitting on the wall between our yard and the next , so I could hear every word . |
| 18 | He said : ‘ I was sitting on the edge of my seat , jumping up and down , shouting , ‘ If you win it 's because you try and if you lose you must not cry ’ . |
| 19 | I could smell her scent , very sharp and close , through the fog and dog smells at the foot of the lamp-post where I was sitting on the ground . |
| 20 | I was sitting on the sofa , quietly crying ; I think I was wishing that Auschwitz looked better than it did , just now , with its windless heat and plagues of flies homing in on the marshes . |
| 21 | I was sitting on the floor of the pantry , in my special place , drawing and feeling a little sad . |
| 22 | " It never occurred to me till yesterday , Mr Feather , when I was sitting on the seat and she smiled at me . |
| 23 | Next morning I was sitting on the garage roof watching starlings squabbling on the lawn and wondering if they were too busy to have noticed me , when they suddenly took off with a great rush of wings . |
| 24 | And we when we came of age puberty I was frightened to death me because I was sitting on the bea we were playing on the beach still a child of twelve cos we still went about with little socks on at twelve in them days . |
| 25 | I was sitting on the top of the bank , above the holes , the lighter of the Flame-thrower burning weakly in the sunlight , when , just over the minute , the first tunnel blew . |
| 26 | er better support and better advice for schools , but I agree entirely with what says , it 's no good having the best advice in the world if we ca n't deliver the er , er , the , the recommendations and one of the things that er has been borne in , on me , when I was sitting on the panel looking at special educational needs that the early identification of the early intervention when there are difficulties which start to arise in schools can save you a lot of money later on and unless the schools have the resources to er , er to meet with the er recommendations which are being made on particular children , then we are asking for trouble there , so that I 'm very concerned about the fact that er , the like , like the early one which was er increase that er provision . |
| 27 | ‘ I was sitting on the bench while the children ran off to play . |
| 28 | Okay I was sitting on the bench erm at the pavilion |
| 29 | I was sitting on the roof trying to get my gun . |
| 30 | I was sitting at the back of the 17th green at the Scottish Open this year watching the action . |