Example sentences of "[pron] sit [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 … |
| 2 | He handed me a toffee , climbed into his car , beckoned me to sit on the other front seat for a few minutes , and removed the celluloid sidescreen to give us more fresh air . |
| 3 | I sit with the reeking instrument . |
| 4 | I sit on a flat stone in one — the straw thatched roof would just have cleared my head — imagining what was kept in the neat stone alcoves . |
| 5 | I sit on a smooth stone and watch yellow-breasted finches in their dipping flights across the still-warm air . |
| 6 | I sit on the wooden floor for a moment to gather my strength , also to decide exactly where I should take the relics to dispose of them . |
| 7 | When I write biographies , I sit at a large kitchen table with a wide surface on which books and papers can be laid , essential for checking quotations or references . |
| 8 | Meanwhile I sit in the spacious bar-restaurant , in this drool parlour , in this fancy vomitorium . |
| 9 | After breakfast , I sit in the outgoing waiting-room , facing the door , with Jackie and the women of yesterday morning clutching their knees and their overnight bags , looking pale . |
| 10 | Another says : ‘ I pray best when I sit before the Blessed Sacrament , or look at the Crucifix without saying anything — just being with the Lord . ’ |
| 11 | He pointed to someone sitting in the front row . |
| 12 | Once I sat with an American psychiatrist , a specialist in eating behaviour , and observed a hugely overweight couple ( quite unaware that we were watching them ) eating their restaurant breakfasts . |
| 13 | I sat at the open window and looked out on to the purple dark . |
| 14 | When I got to higher ground , I sat on a long , flat slab of white rock in a salmon-pink sea . |
| 15 | I was drinking Monk and Monk was a heavy beer so fuck I gets out of the car and fucking oh fuck , but anyway said to me look I 'll go up , say my name , and I 'll bring you home , I was living with my sister at the time and I sat on a wee low wall , I 'm just the wall , fu fuck I , in the middle of the day , nobody , they were just drinking er Dawn this is way were , it 's fucking maybe twenty five years ago , twenty six and er fuck he sat me on the wall he had to s I could n't see he says to me er fucking I heard a voice , Raymond like this is the exam tonight you 'll have to sit there . |
| 16 | I sat on a large stone , shivering and looked north appealingly , shouting , ‘ Mick ! |
| 17 | I sat on an upturned box , feeling the sweat beginning to trickle down my back . |
| 18 | The next morning I sat on the front steps with my head in my hands . |
| 19 | Upstream , through the gorge known as the Wachau , runs one of the prettiest stretches of the river and I sat for a pleasant hour on its embankment watching the swallows skim its waters . |
| 20 | Afterwards I sat for a long time trying to reconcile myself to these new ideas . |
| 21 | I sat for a long while , clutching the unfinished poem , gazing beyond it . |
| 22 | I sat upon a disintegrating gravestone . |
| 23 | I sat beneath a metal-framed photograph ( black and white ) of fishing-boats at the Ile d'Oleron . |
| 24 | I laughed silently as I sat against a hard cushion in the palm-frond house looking at the brown eyes around me . |
| 25 | So with all this in mind , as I sat in a long queue of airmen for the preliminary examination , I was thankful . |
| 26 | I sat in a small easy chair , the stiff clothes seeking out the bruises and abrasions of the night , my hand throbbing with pain . |
| 27 | I sat in a thirteenth-century hall in Bruges in September 1988 and listened to Mrs Thatcher 's speech on the future of Europe . |
| 28 | Gandalf says as much at II , 99 , though he is laconic about it — ‘ I sat in a high place ( the great tree in Lothlórien ? ] , and I strove with the Dark Tower ’ — since Aragorn and the others he is addressing can have no idea what is being referred to . |
| 29 | Last Sunday I sat in a cold room with my daughter , the two of us reviling the malign fate which had robbed us of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea , our weekly TV fix . |
| 30 | I could not understand his absence ; but suddenly , as I sat in the speeding train , a long way already from El Katara , I caught sight of his white burnous on the banks of the oued . |