Example sentences of "[pron] sit [v-ing] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's at such times , as you sit eating a damp sandwich as water drips from your nose , as you scour the map for all the things you ca n't see , that you wonder why the hell you do it . |
| 2 | Her role was to distract the holy Thérèse , who sat reading the local newspaper inside the pigsty , and make her look up . |
| 3 | When Richard had gone she sat watching the other guests ; Stella was chatting animatedly to a lean , grey-haired man . |
| 4 | Could anybody bring us a bottle down here you know because that would be nice would n't it on a on a cool Saturday afternoon here as we sit overlooking the grand metropolis of York . |
| 5 | Maybe it would be better if we sat facing the other way ? |
| 6 | I met Jamie in the lounge bar of the Cauldhame Arms for lunch and we sat playing an electronic game over a TV table . |
| 7 | His top-storey apartment had a glass dome which allowed him to sit watching the falling stars . |
| 8 | Two hours later , as they sat watching an Irish comedian telling jokes that she herself considered quite unsuitable for family viewing , jokes that she hoped were incomprehensible to Celia and her grandparents , the telephone rang : it was her mother , to report that Liz had not telephoned . |
| 9 | They sat enjoying the fragrant smells and the coolness after their dusty ride through the city . |
| 10 | They sat sipping the strong , dark brew and chatted idly about nothing in particular , enjoying the warm velvety air , the star-dusted turquoise sky slowly changing to amethyst and the heady-sweet scent from a clump of yellow broom . |
| 11 | They sat savouring the malty brew for a while with the darkness silent outside the windows . |