Example sentences of "[pron] sit [v-ing] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I sit shivering in the armchair in this first-floor flat in Deptford , and I feel I 'm still trapped in a cupboard , listening for strange noises , till I realize they are the last images of the dream , slipping away like ghost bodies melting on the floor . |
| 2 | I sat reading in the lounge-bar . |
| 3 | One day in the early autumn of my lower-sixth-form year , when the damp leaves were already furring the grassy median strips that cleaved the dual carriageways surrounding Varndean Grammar , I saw a familiar figure from where I sat reading in the school library . |
| 4 | For the best part of an hour I sat swearing in a blocked tunnel under Westway . |
| 5 | while I sat working in the sun . |
| 6 | The voice of Doctor O'Connor-Crowley , like a racing-engine snarling through the gears , bore down on Sister Cooney , who sat writing in the office . |
| 7 | They sat gossiping in the afternoon . |
| 8 | From then on he sat cowering in the corner beside his case praying for the journey to end and did not dare move , look down or even breath . |