Example sentences of "[conj] they sat on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | With many smiles and good-nights , the four went upstairs and another meeting took place in the newly-painted room , where they sat on the floor , and discussed the new problem posed by Faye and Roberta , who did not like Comrade Andrew 's role in their affairs . |
| 2 | Mungo accepted and they sat on the bed . |
| 3 | He fired up the gas logs to supplement the background heating and they sat on the Chesterfield . |
| 4 | ‘ They kept the fighting till later when they sat on the management-union joint negotiation committee . |
| 5 | The hills themselves looked asleep , the heather glowed dust-blue in the hazy light , and the people , after a night of little sleep and hours of walking and standing , now looked stunned as they sat on the grassy banks , leaned on dykes , or lay on their backs in the hayfields , munching oatcakes and drinking the last of their water . |
| 6 | It was Paula 's job to show samples , parading slowly up and down in front of the clients as they sat on the elegant spindle-leg chairs taking in every detail of the garments with a critical and practised eye . |
| 7 | All through the morning , as they sat on the makeshift bunks , they stared without comment at the kneeling figure who ground away at the rust around the bolt . |
| 8 | Ian Dixey , proscuting , said the boy approached the two girls as they sat on the pavement , and demonstrated with a match how an aerosol can be used as a flame-thrower . |