Example sentences of "[pron] sit [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 61 | They sat for a long time on brown plastic seats in a white corridor . |
| 62 | They sat at a low bench hard against the wall . |
| 63 | They sat at a rickety table on the perimeter of the square , under the shade of an umbrella , sipping espresso , eating anisette biscuits , and watching the large , colourful crowd . |
| 64 | They sat at a small table by the window . |
| 65 | They sat at a circular wrought iron table shaded by a willow . |
| 66 | They sat in a dark room , the only light coming from a candle burning in the passage outside . |
| 67 | So to while away the time while they waited for dark again they sat in a back room and fiished the waistcoat . |
| 68 | They sat in a fashionable Italian restaurant in the city . |
| 69 | He sits on a low wall and waits . |
| 70 | Now , the elderly man who endured a waiter 's dirty fingers in his lemonade at Montrose could hardly have been more famous or respected , and there he sits in a dirty inn , happy to enjoy a little quiet , and quite at ease to do so , even in the company of one of the most garrulous men in the realm whose nature abhorred a conversational vacuum ; Johnson even expressed a simple delight in being thought as silent as a ghost . |
| 71 | Looking to the future , this conflict should cease to arise ; race-awareness training is now integrated into basic training , where it sits as a natural part of discussions on impartiality and prejudice during the interviewing process and should have the benefits that CAB anti-racist policy intends . |
| 72 | I leap off my spot and down into the cabin where it sits in a predominant place . |
| 73 | Should he sit on a select committee or will the work go unnoticed ? |
| 74 | He sat astride a ladder-backed wooden chair , his legs splayed out in front of him . |
| 75 | When he came back in the evening he sat for a long time gazing out across the V-shaped valley leading south . |
| 76 | And he sat for a long time in a melancholy reverie as the ants continued to drift down , thinking of the futility of all endeavour . |
| 77 | He sat as a Unionist councillor and , when the Unionist Party became dominated by powersharers , he moved to Vanguard , then to Baird 's United Ulster Unionist Party , and only switched to Paisley 's Democratic Unionist Party after the demise of the UUUP . |
| 78 | When arrangements were made in the summer of 1278 to establish two permanent circuits of the general eyre he was one of the justices appointed to the ‘ northern ’ circuit and he sat as a junior justice in every eyre of that circuit down to 1288 . |
| 79 | Though not a Leveller sympathizer , he sat as a leading London Independent on the committee that drafted the second Agreement of the People . |
| 80 | He sat on a small stone bench opposite the priest 's house , half dozing , still relishing the memory of his meeting with de Craon . |
| 81 | While Auntie Lou set out the food , he sat on a flat rock to recover and talked about the old days . |
| 82 | The estimable Anderson spoke half-truths as his friend and fellow bag-carrier , Billy Gunn , now explained as he sat on a green caddies ' bench and waited for the call to duty . |
| 83 | He sat on a huge leather chair with a sigh of relief and it was clear to Hari that his leg had been giving him trouble . |
| 84 | ‘ But I think it is a pointless exercise , ’ said Floy , somewhere towards morning , a thin , cold light filtering in through the windows to where he sat at a great desk , his black hair tumbled , hollows in his cheeks , his face white with fatigue . |
| 85 | He sat at a makeshift desk of unfinished lumber , and wrote and played with his thinning hair . |
| 86 | He sat at a large desk covered with papers , journals , medical books , a portable typewriter pushed to one end . |
| 87 | He sat with a small radar screen in front of him , writing up the small strips that are used by controllers all over the world , strips that have all the different aircraft information on them . |
| 88 | Colonel Bauer , a German staff officer , wrote : ‘ He sat with a pallid face gazing at the map , dead to all feeling , a broken man . ’ |
| 89 | He sat behind a big table with a television , three computers and five telephones . |
| 90 | He sat in a rocking chair that faced the door . |