Example sentences of "[be] sit [adv] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All right , but you 're sitting there on the nursery provision for under five 's working party , you chaired that committee meeting yesterday . |
| 2 | ‘ They would be sitting together on the sofa feeling romantic and giving each other cuddles . |
| 3 | The jury is out on this and I am sitting firmly on the fence . |
| 4 | I must have been sitting here on the edge of his bed , first singing and stroking , then just stroking , for half an hour or so . |
| 5 | I heard this with embarrassment , remembering how terribly bored and miserable I had been sitting there on a long hot afternoon , hardly understanding a word as chiefs and elders talked to our delegation in local dialect . |
| 6 | What would they think if Johnny were to sit casually on a chair which , to their eyes , simply was n't there ? |
| 7 | The two other boys were sitting neatly on a sofa in the distance but they failed to acknowledge them . |
| 8 | They were sitting again on the terrace at the Continental . |
| 9 | They were sitting outside on the verandah . |
| 10 | Bruce was in the hammock and Mr and Mrs van Meer were sitting side-by-side on the steps . |
| 11 | A form arrived with the instruction ‘ State exactly how loss occurred ’ , and I wrote ‘ Lord Haig 's dog Wasp and I were sitting together on a sofa when I discovered he was eating my sweater ’ with the gravest doubts that I would be believed . |
| 12 | Guillaume had already bought some drawings of Modigliani 's , but one afternoon at the Rotonde Max Jacob and Modi were sitting together on the terrace with Modi sketching as usual on the Rotonde 's thin paper napkins when Paul Guillaume sat down at their table and asked Modigliani whether he ever painted . |
| 13 | His eyes swung round the room , but his mother and sister were sitting together on the sofa , playing with the baby , while his father , cup and saucer in hand , stood by the window with his uncles and the fierce-looking old man who was his grandfather . |
| 14 | They were sitting together on the grass of Hartshorn Park , some distance away from a gravel path where tourists wandered up and down , pointing towards the follies and monuments around them . |
| 15 | Harold and Felicity were sitting together on the sofa , heads close . |
| 16 | Her father and mother were sitting tensely on the sofa , Omi at the table , upright , disdain on her fine features , Bodo , huge against the wall , and all of them staring at the stubby , shabby , ash-stained figure of Marx , blinking through his red eyes at the document and reading aloud in an artificially solemn voice , practised in legal jargon and with which he , no doubt , had read out a hundred , a thousand , such documents . |
| 17 | Matilda and her brother were sitting quietly on the sofa waiting for their mother to bring in the TV dinners on a tray . |
| 18 | My mother was sitting here on a chair yeah , when I come home from there . |
| 19 | was sitting comfortably on a low branch on a tall pine tree in the Wakefield 's back garden , she had her knees up round her chin and was leaning against the trunk , this was Elizabeth 's thinking seat , the place that she went to be alone , there was a lot to think about , tomorrow Mrs , Mr Davis her form teacher would announce the winner of the class essay contest . |
| 20 | Somewhere behind them one of the younger squires had been pulled from his mount , and was sitting dizzily on the grass nursing a shocked head in his hands , too stunned to give any further trouble . |
| 21 | She was sitting tensely on the gilt chair . |
| 22 | She was sitting sideways on the horse in the usual lady 's position . |
| 23 | Charlotte was sitting dejectedly on the edge of the bunk , her face chalk white , her eyes closed . |