Example sentences of "[pron] sit [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I sit with the reeking instrument . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Meanwhile I sit in the spacious bar-restaurant , in this drool parlour , in this fancy vomitorium . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | He pointed to someone sitting in the front row . |
| 8 | I sat at the open window and looked out on to the purple dark . |
| 9 | The next morning I sat on the front steps with my head in my hands . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | As I sat in the graceful room looking at Mrs Rumney , cool , poised , tranquil , with the little white creature resting on her knee I could n't help feeling how right and fitting the whole scene was . |
| 12 | I sat in the still shadows and listened to the water bubbling in a ditch beyond the wall . |
| 13 | I sat in the cool , shuttered room and watched the slightly bowed bald head behind the shining black harpsichord . |
| 14 | I sat in the front row of the balcony with tears rolling down my face and feeling nothing at all . |
| 15 | I sat in the front room . |
| 16 | As I sat in the hot taxi I could see Balvinder Singh haggling with one of the healers . |
| 17 | Tonight I sat in the tiny living room of a schoolmaster 's house in Mufakose , one of Salisbury 's African townships . |
| 18 | I sat in the penitential cafe |
| 19 | ‘ Quits , ’ she said cheerfully , and carried the copper kettle to the brass tap let into the front of the water tank which sat in the big iron stove alongside the kitchen fire , and ran the hot water into it before she set it not on the fire , but on a small gas ring in the corner , lighting the gas with a match from a box of Swan Vestas . |
| 20 | For 22 years , North Down has been the personal bailliwick of James Kilfedder , the former speaker of the ill-starred Northern Ireland Assembly and an independent Unionist who sits on the Conservative benches in the House of Commons but without the party whip . |
| 21 | Amer Midani , the wealthy Lebanese businessman who sits on the United board , is still favourite to eventually take over the club , and to install Bobby Charlton as chairman . |
| 22 | But tell me , the English lady who sits with the peculiar gloves drinking sherry wine with your colleague . |
| 23 | Bloody hurt it bruises , you sit on it and it does n't , I thought I might , I suppose after a while you 'll get blisters but it 's bruised , when you sit on the bloody thing . |
| 24 | ‘ You sit in the front row , ’ the guard informed Manescu as other members who had travelled in the cavalcade began to filter into the large room . |
| 25 | She sits on the only chair in the room , by the night table . |
| 26 | Do you want ask you to sit in the other chair ? |
| 27 | Behind the scenes , many who sit on the Conservative Benches are betraying their concern even before the Bill has received its Second Reading . |
| 28 | at the same time , there are people who sit in the middle ground |
| 29 | Why should you sit on the hard one ? |
| 30 | Lehmann watched them laugh , his eyes drawn to the man who sat to the extreme right of the group . |