Example sentences of "[pron] sit [v-ing] [prep] [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 | I sat thinking about the twins , Kate and Alison , family . |
| 6 | while I sat working in the sun . |
| 7 | ‘ I only know that during the half-hour or so I sat staring through the top windows of the tram , I saw nothing , not one single thing , that could possibly raise a man 's spirits . |
| 8 | I sat staring at the empty screen for a long time , oblivious of everything around me , including Frejji 's cursing as she struggled with interfield links . |
| 9 | I was shown into an empty office where I sat waiting for a minimum of ten minutes . |
| 10 | Then for twice that long I sat twitching on the shower 's deck , the silver snout tuned to full heat and heft but doing nothing much to wash off my rot . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | And what she saw was a handsome dark-haired young man who sat laughing with a girl in a bright green dress . |
| 13 | ‘ Perhaps we should go , ’ he whispered , glancing sidelong at Southgate who sat poring over the book . |
| 14 | Suddenly everyone had gone except for one man , the show 's principal backer , who sat crying at the table . |
| 15 | ‘ It can't 've been anything I ate , ’ said poor Betty later , as she sat shivering by the kitchen table while Lydia kindly boiled some water for her . |
| 16 | She sat leaning against the white-painted wall in a corner diagonally opposite Lee . |
| 17 | It took her a minute to unlock the car and then she sat shaking behind the wheel , waiting until her hands were steady enough to switch on the ignition . |
| 18 | She was oddly quiet , seemed in an odd mood altogether , though not an unhappy one : while they were eating she sat staring over the valley with a dreamy look in her eyes and a small , secret smile on her face . |
| 19 | Shellerton the brightly lit stage , Chiswick the darkened amphitheatre where one sat watching from the gods . |
| 20 | We sat facing across a desk in a rather denuded office in Carlos Lott 's building which resembles an unravelling hat box . |
| 21 | The curtain was pulled back and we sat looking into the eye of Reggie 's electric torch . |
| 22 | We sat chatting for a few minutes after finishing our meal . |
| 23 | For a while we sat listening to the rain drumming on the roof . |
| 24 | One evening Kalchu came into my room and we sat staring into the fire for a long time . |
| 25 | We sat staring at the rain streaming down the windscreen . |
| 26 | As we sat waiting for the last half-hour to grind away , the young Sheikh lifted the phone and telephoned his grandmother — his mother 's mother , not Sheikha Grandmother , who was still on her visit to her daughter . |
| 27 | They sit staring at the sunlight reflected off the monotonous river . |
| 28 | They sit staring into the sun and telling each other stories . |
| 29 | Take sentries — they sit squinting into the dark , waiting to see something move , and naturally their eyes droop . |
| 30 | He turned into the one occupied by his stepmother , switched off the motor , and for several moments they sat looking at the house whose drawn blinds and closed windows seemed to proclaim its emptiness . |