Example sentences of "sit [prep] one " in BNC.
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| 1 | He learned to sit after one day of clinic treatment . |
| 2 | Crocheted antimacassars graced the backs of all the chairs although it was many years since a gentleman with pomade on his hair had sat in one of them . |
| 3 | You sit with one elbow on the table and rest your head on one hand . |
| 4 | If you invite only three or four , the conversation may become general , and you are likely to be left out , so be bold : invite twenty people , then you can move around , making contact with individuals as you ply them with food and drink , or sit with one person for a short chat before moving on to another . |
| 5 | Sit with one leg bent inwards , placing the foot in line with the centre of your body . |
| 6 | Sit with one leg bent inwards and the other bent backwards . |
| 7 | Sit with one leg bent in front of you and the other leg extended to the side . |
| 8 | Sit with one leg bent in front and the other extended to the side . |
| 9 | Sit with one leg extended forwards and the other leg bent . |
| 10 | Sit with one leg bent in front and the other extended to the side . |
| 11 | Then he was reaching for his own glass and inviting her to sit in one of the wicker armchairs overlooking the bay while he seated himself in the chair beside her . |
| 12 | We sit in one of the slightly faded birthrooms . |
| 13 | He sits on one of the little white stools . |
| 14 | When she finished selling the remaining tickets Sally looked around for them , realised what had happened and went back to sit on one of the hard upright chairs which lined the hall . |
| 15 | He could not bear to talk about what had happened and so he handed it to Julia and went to sit on one of the excruciatingly uncomfortable gilded chairs by the window while she read it . |
| 16 | The first team to all sit on one chair . |
| 17 | I suppose I thought she 'd either be fantastically frosty and sit on one of those little gilt chairs with a fancy gilt mirror behind her , or else be quite fat and red-faced and come in from the stove holding a wooden spoon and give me a huge embrace smelling of garlic and stockpot . |
| 18 | This will probably involve a social worker in an area team putting together a package that might consist of a few hours of home care , a couple of days of day care , and night sitting for one night . |
| 19 | Even critics who loved the pace and zest of the new films began to feel that night after night they were just sitting through one long gangster film . |
| 20 | This time the Americans have been talking to negotiators as often as three times a day , sitting with one side and then another to explore positions on such controversial issues as the disposition of authority over West Bank land . |
| 21 | It has a leisurely , turn-of-the-century ambience , in which strolling in the many green parks , sitting in one of the string of cafés along the Paseo de Pereda , or shopping in the strikingly smart shops a few streets back , are the best ways to spend the day . |
| 22 | WE ARE SITTING in one of Nirvana 's dressing rooms after the taming of the bullring . |
| 23 | Sitting in one position to observe and record appearances does not conform to the majority of our everyday experience of landscape . |
| 24 | The occupant of the room was sitting in one corner . |
| 25 | Sitting in one corner of the moulded seat which ran round three sides of the cockpit , she bit into a sandwich , suddenly ravenous . |
| 26 | At any given moment , any particular copy of a gene , in the sense of a particular collection of atoms , must be sitting in one cell of one individual . |
| 27 | He was sitting in one of the big armchairs , and in the grate a fire was beginning to burn nicely . |
| 28 | Used to have two and er had a a bit of a rope round middle and two then There 'd be two men sitting in one end of the cow shed . |
| 29 | The inner door stood open and through it she caught sight of Eleanor Shergold sitting in one of the pews . |
| 30 | There 's usually a heavy-metal band sitting in one comer , their van 's broken down , you see , and they 're on their way to an important gig . |