Example sentences of "sit [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maybe I 'm just being traditional in my tastes ; it is probably important to watch the compilation in small doses and not sit through the whole three hours as I did . |
| 2 | Between the depth and master volume is the manual switch for the chorus , while the ‘ effect on ’ light sits between the rate and depth pots . |
| 3 | The traditional unit is a box that sits between the mains and the AC-in socket on your computer . |
| 4 | Atlas 's purpose is to sit between the corporate systems and the EDI network , allowing messages to be generated to various standards and in various formats . |
| 5 | The head of the ‘ effigy ’ is a wax portrait — Bentham 's own head was removed , desiccated , provided with glass eyes and placed under a glass dome to sit between the feet of the auto-icon ; it , too , is now on public display — a little start-eyed , yet nevertheless recognizable ( Col. 3 ) . |
| 6 | In parliament the position seemed worse now that the Unionist leaders sat on the government front bench while their followers continued to sit as the opposition . |
| 7 | Although schools and teachers I visited may not always have been able to produce copies of the official syllabus , everyone had copies of previous years ' questions and were assiduously preparing children to sit for the current examination . |
| 8 | Since formation in 1978 , ACAUS has sought reciprocity of accounting qualifications and have met with success in only a few states to date where foreign accountants are eligible to sit for the CPA examination ( examples include California and Illinois ) . |
| 9 | Self and Citrine frequently had to sit through the same item of business as it made its way through three , or in extreme cases five , formal meetings of different bodies before being finally approved . |
| 10 | Like most Chinese children unfortunate enough to grow up in the Sixties , Zeng 's education was severely disrupted by the Cultural Revolution , and he had to sit through the shouting matches and brain-washing sessions just as everyone else did . |
| 11 | the participants for H Two will have already discovered , we are still tackling part of H One from yesterday , but , and I apologize that you will have to sit through the outstanding items of discussion . |
| 12 | AccuCard and its ilk sit between the power supply and the motherboard. so they 're too far downstream to help . |
| 13 | I 've just sat through the most incredible proposition , and now you expect me to believe — ’ |
| 14 | Lord Cranborne , son of the sixth Marquess of Salisbury , had sat for the family constituency of south Dorset for eight years : his grandfather , ‘ Bobbety ’ the fifth Marquess , had served eleven and a half years as an MP before joining the peerage and becoming one of the most influential party men in the fifties . |
| 15 | He raised the mug to his lips and sipped the hot sugary tea , remembering the day when he had sat for the first time in Mr Corcoran 's office . |
| 16 | On the face of it , the shooting looked like another bloody event in Irish history , but perhaps it was its timing — on the same day that the government had sat for the first time — that intrigued him , or perhaps it was Joe 's words : that his father and the men like him had died for Ireland were being betrayed . |
| 17 | Mrs. Mallett , the typist from the general office , had brought her knitting to work and fortified by an unshakeable alibi — she had sat between the postmistress and Mr. Mason from the general store at the village concert — and with something to occupy her hands , sat clicking away with understandable if irritating complacency until given the order of release . |
| 18 | It was sat behind the settee in a corner . |
| 19 | She could see the Beastline overlords who had sat with the Wolfkings at Tara ; proud and noble and dignified , and just very slightly cruel , but charming and strong as well , and utterly loyal to the High King . |
| 20 | At last people were going to see the real Dorothy , the real live woman behind that starchy old madam who 'd sat in the corner for all those years , hiding from the world in general . |
| 21 | Duff had sat in the Belfast Corporation since 1946 as an official Unionist but he was now backed by Ulster Protestant Action as a protest against Maginess , the Attorney-General at the time of the Maura Lyons case . |
| 22 | There was a momentary hesitation before he explained that he 'd only just got to the room , he 'd felt too disturbed by the shamanistic experience to sleep and had sat in the hospitality suite reading . |
| 23 | Her ultimate choice was surprising , for Philippe Le Bas was the son of a man who had sat in the Convention of 1793 and who had never renounced the republican ethos in which his father had brought him up . |
| 24 | In New York I 'd sat in the winter sun on wooden steps at South Street pier and swapped cards with an old girlfriend , now a free-lance writer . |
| 25 | He had sat in the store-room behind the shop here and told her how someone in the club had sung a song that recalled his Nelly to him . |
| 26 | Dr Bellamy gave a spirited call for the preservation of an area he considers to be one of the top 10 botanical sites in the world and told how he had sat in the rainforest imagining he was a dinosaur . |
| 27 | All those long nights when I had sat in the canteen I had never realized what was happening just a few yards away on the Tartan track . |
| 28 | She saw him on the morning they had sat in the sun outside the cottage door . |
| 29 | he sees Sharon , who 's sat in the passenger seat |
| 30 | So for a full week he had sat in the outer office , and waited . |