Example sentences of "sit [prep] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | He beckoned her to sit between his thighs , and his heart missed a beat when she meekly obeyed . |
| 2 | The first few times , the pup gets his food for free to demonstrate to him that people are nice , but after a few treats he has to sit for his stranger and for his supper . |
| 3 | George Alexander Gruen was accepted by Winchester School and was about to sit for his Cambridge entrance when he was interned and shipped off to Canada in 1940 . |
| 4 | The most genuinely modest personality it is my pleasure to know , George had to be bullied by a number of us to sit for his sculpture by Archie Forrest who could well be considered as adept with clay as he is with paint . |
| 5 | Minton had already sat for his portrait to another member of staff , Robert Buhler , for a sensitive , restrained likeness , but , with hindsight , it is Moynihan who fashioned the more telling icon ( Plate 15 ) . |
| 6 | Many an evening Bruce and I-have sat in his garden north of Victoria , B.C. and thrashed out our opinions of Canadian ( and world ) problems far into the night . |
| 7 | It was once full of treasures , but all I could think about as I stood on the battlemented roof , looking out over the Aegean , was that a disciple of Christ 's had sat in his cell in a little monastery half-way up the hill recording the extraordinary revelations he had been vouchsafed . |
| 8 | Er I come up to draw the President 's attention erm to a problem we have within the delegation and that is that when er Dick called the mover of resolution three eight one in the name of the Lancashire region John who was going to move the resolution was in fact sat in his seat within the delegation . |
| 9 | When he was little he was sat in his buggy |
| 10 | Unlike Mr Anderson last week , furthermore , he had some elementary knowledge of how the controls worked , having sat beside his pilot . |
| 11 | Once he sent me a paperweight , the very paperweight which had sat on his desk . |
| 12 | Yet you 've sat by his bed fer damn near the whole of the past five days'n'nights . |
| 13 | Sir Christopher Wren sits behind his desk , large as life and at least as natural , until a cloth is draped over the leather bound book concealing the projector , and his head is revealed as a white splodge which takes 80 hours of modelling . |
| 14 | To 1982 again , to the high-ceilinged room in east Beirut where Pierre Gemayel sits behind his large oak desk . |
| 15 | In another movement pattern for arm and trunk control , the patient sits with his weight on his arms and moves his body , with the physiotherapist 's guidance , so that his arms have to react to help his balance . |
| 16 | Paul sits with his back jammed against the side of the ambulance . |
| 17 | The Chancellor might be forced to raise rates again if sterling took a nosedive , but he did not need to sit with his finger on the trigger . |
| 18 | Harry had told her very little about his discussion with Sir Gregory : all she knew was that Tristram had been caught trespassing and that Jennifer had been caught going to meet him ; but although each had sworn that nothing untoward had happened , and their reserve and good behaviour seemed to confirm their innocence , Ann could not forget the scandal they had caused ten years before , nor could she believe that Tristram would have scaled the Roscarrock wall simply to sit with his cousin and talk . |
| 19 | Lady Kitty had been furious , declaring that the man was arrogant enough without giving him licence to sleep in his employer 's bed and sit upon his lavatory . |
| 20 | Where he becomes ridiculous is in his desperate ambition to be part of the working class , striking a rather pathetic figure as he sits in his ministerial office with his trade union banner behind his head . |
| 21 | 4 ) ‘ My toddler sits in his highchair and demands more of everything in sight so we have to clear the table as quickly as possible after our meals — and out of sight appears to be out of mind ! ’ |
| 22 | He imagines he 's thinking when he just sits in his room and dreams and mumbles . |
| 23 | TOBY , their six-month-old son , sits in his high chair and is quietly sick . |
| 24 | A few yards away , a crippled rasta sits in his wheelchair , killing time . |
| 25 | You will probably have to see events through the eyes of one or more detectives , of a scene-of-the-crime officer , of various laboratory experts and of the man who sits in his office at headquarters and directs the operation . |
| 26 | A man sits in his car at the traffic-lights , waiting for them to go green . |
| 27 | It seems to him , as he sits in his little white room , on a plain elm chair , at a plain oak table , with a view of green leaves outside the plain square window , and a plain old-fashioned black portable typewriter waiting beneath his fingers , that the purpose of all this massive display of hardware is clear : it is to overawe the minds of men and to symbolize their subjugation . |
| 28 | Sits in his armchair for hours and says nothing . |
| 29 | He comes in from work and sits in his armchair all evening , hardly talking to me , although he 's great with our two kids and everybody else . |
| 30 | He sits in his chair looking at me as if he ai n't scared . |