Example sentences of "[pron] sit [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The women who sat beside a single basket of herbs , or wild mushrooms they had gathered that morning in the dew , high in the hills , were tanned so dark they might have washed in walnut juice . |
| 32 | Used originally by Tallymen who sat behind a high desk to keep account of cargo being unloaded , and later adapted by film directors , you 'll find this seat ideal if you have a breakfast bar . |
| 33 | She sat for a long while , until her limbs became cold and stiff and her mind numb with tiredness and misery . |
| 34 | She sat with a lame leg tucked under her . |
| 35 | He stood before her as she sat on a low chair , and drenched her with his urine . |
| 36 | She sat on a hard chair . |
| 37 | On impulse , she bought a recently published history of the region under the Occupation and took it to a pavement café , where she sat under a gaudy sunshade , idly sipping coffee and glancing through her book , but finding the passing show around her far more diverting . |
| 38 | ‘ Gee , ’ Charity Marlowe responded drily from where she sat in a decrepit upholstered chair , her head thrown back , her hair hidden under a towel , and her eyes clenched tightly shut . |
| 39 | Two days later , she sat in a small bar , which was the latest haunt of the upwardly-mobile in Washington DC . |
| 40 | Edward paid the taxi driver in advance and all the way home she sat in a happy daze . |
| 41 | She sat in a quiet , dark corner listening to the service . |
| 42 | She sat like a small spruce viper , neatly coiled opposite him . |
| 43 | ‘ You sat on a low step , Modigliani , your cries were those of a stormy petrel … ‘ , wrote Ehrenburg in a poem written early in 1915 . |
| 44 | One of the things that some chaps found amusing when they went to the " heads " ( the head is what the Navy calls the loo ) , you sat in a long row and a great flush of water ran right through a row of 20 or 30 . |
| 45 | Bailey gives me instant coffee and a plate of Tesco jam doughnuts , still in their plastic packet , and we sit at a dusty picnic table outside , slapping off flies . |
| 46 | We sat at a special table and just told jokes about the Russians , the Americans , and ourselves . ’ |
| 47 | It began to get quite hot so we sat on a mossy bank and shared an orange . |
| 48 | Once inside , we sat through a fascinating short on turtle-trapping in the Galapagos Islands or some such thing , and twenty minutes of mouth-watering trailers and commercials . |
| 49 | We sat in a high vestibule between the street and the courtyard . |
| 50 | We sat in a gothic cafeteria . |
| 51 | When you 're doing a melody like Rubina or Always With Me , Always With You they sit at a nice register , but the chorus , second verse of Cryin ’ is right up there , War is up there , Friends is up there . |
| 52 | They sit in a long line in York , yeah ? |
| 53 | Thirty yards back along the street they sit in a murky Cavalier . |
| 54 | If all the frogs pursue this policy , they sit in a tight clump . |
| 55 | Other birds of prey may also arouse strong responses if they sit in a conspicuous position during the daylight hours . |
| 56 | As she rounded the gates of the school she saw him sitting on a low wall , his little legs dangling , swinging backwards and forwards . |
| 57 | Old school photo graphs show him sitting like a wise and attentive owl , surrounded by his charges . |
| 58 | Wardens find him sitting in a fake oak tree beside the replica of a female tawny owl . |
| 59 | Well only just to really , actually all Mr Mr has er said , and just one other bit of information , the time when the Chairman of the council extended the invitation to sixth formers , looking for alternative entertainment for the sixth formers of school , after they sat through a full council , I took them over to the er archivists er department , and we saw the paper restor , sorry , should n't say paper restorer , manuscript restorer at work , and these sixth formers , already knew of the existence , one of them asked to see the records of parish , because he knew they were there , and I mean , I think this is wonderful , that the sixth formers already , er children are being taught about the ar the records , and they will want to be sure that we kept them , and I think it 's our moral duty to keep er , the records of the past for future generations . |
| 60 | They sat for a long time in silence watching the Atlantic crash down on the empty shore . |